He's Just Not That Into You

I've decided I'm definitely seeing that film. I've just found out that Hedy Burress (Yuna, Final Fantasy X and X-2) is in it, and I want to see if I can recognise her.

James Arnold Taylor

James Arnold Taylor is a voice actor, and, while perhaps not the most famous, he does have a very good range. He also sometimes dubs the work of some rather more famous actors, should they not be available.

The bio on his website is as follows;

James Arnold Taylor’s versatile vocal range has given him success in every facet of the Voice-Over Industry. He’s had lead roles in animated films such as TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), The Animatrix, Hellboy: Blood & Iron and Atlantis: Milo’s Return. On TV James has guest starred on all the hits from What’s New Scooby-Doo?, The Powerpuff Girls, and Johnny Bravo to Kim Possible, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Avatar. He also stars as Johnny in Johnny Test, Axel in A.T.O.M., Wooldoor Sockbat in Drawn Together, and most notably Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Clone Wars. James keeps busy from his home studio with promo work for networks like Fox, The CW, Spike, G4, and Game Show Network. Some of James’ most celebrated work comes from Video Games: Tidus in the Final Fantasy X series, Ratchet in the Ratchet & Clank series, Gabe in the Syphon Filter series, and numerous voices in games like Shrek, Spiderman, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Caribbean to name a few. A unique aspect of James’ work is Voice-Doubling. When big time celebrities aren’t available to do their own voice, James seamlessly fills in: David Spade, Michael J. Fox, Billy Bob Thornton, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp, and the list goes on. James’ greatest honor is following in the footsteps of greats Alan Reed and Henry Corden by providing the voice of the cartoon icon Fred Flintstone.

Speaking of his website, it's awesome. Seriously, go take a look. The first page will display examples of voiceovers when you roll over the characters.

Drawn Together

Drawn Together is a series, originally released in 2004, which lampoons reality TV shows like Big Brother. The essentially premise is that several characters, from a variety of different styles of animated TV shows, have been 'drawn together' into one house, and forced to live there, in harmony, or some approximation of it.

The main characters are;

• Princess Clara, voiced by Tara Strong, inspired by the Disney Princesses.
  
• Toot, also voiced by Tara Strong (Tara Strong happens to be the actress who's played the most voice-over roles, including Rikku in Final Fantasy X and X-2), inspired by Betty Boop.
  
• Captain Hero, voiced by Jess Harnell (who played Doctor Finklestein in Kingdom Hearts), inspired by all those super hero TV shows.
  
• Foxxy Love, voiced by Cree Summer (Lenne and Belgemine in Final Fantasy X and X-2), a black, mystery-solving musician, inspired by Scooby Doo and Josie and the Pussycats.
  
• Waldor Sockbat, voiced by James Arnold Taylor (Tidus, from Final Fantasy X and X-2, among others), inspired by such cartoons as (ugh) Spongebob Squarepants.
  
• Ling-Ling, a Japanese Battle Monster, inspired by Pokemon and voiced by Abbey McBride (newcomer to the field).
  
• Xander P. Wifflebottom, a gay RPG hero, loosely inspired by Link, and voiced by Jack Plotnick (another newcomer).
  
• Spanky Ham, voiced by Adam Carolla (Death on Family Guy, among many, many others). A parody of internet Flash Cartoon characters.

The show is hilarious. In terms of obscenity, it ranks somewhere between South Park and The Simpsons (only less stale than the latter). Unfortunately, the three seasons are now complete, but there are rumours of a film, to be released in 2009. Fingers crossed.