5.15.2004

Okie makes good 

Sarah Vowell has a very distinctive voice, it's true, (see any of her wonderful wry commentarries on This American Life), but I was surprised to see she is branching out into voicework for the next animated Disney movie. It's a long time since I enjoyed any of these, but it's always interesting to see the eclectic groups of actors in them. Seeing Wallace Shawn is there too, my interest is mildly piqued for a fleeting moment. Now if David Mamet wrote a Disney film...that I would see.

On an unrelated note, everyone go read Vowell's book "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Funny and insightful on any number of things from dead presidents to Rosa Parks to watching "The New German Cinema" in a small town in Montana. She's sort of an old fogey trapped in a nerdy 30-something's life. I can relate to that.