Actress Lucille Bliss, who voiced The Smurf's Smurfette, has passed away at the age of 96.
Bliss died from natural causes on Nov. 8 at an assisted living center in Costa Mesa, The Los Angeles Times reports.
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New releases announced today, February 5:
Caprica will be coming out April 21
Designing Women - Season 1 will be coming out May 26
The Jetsons - Season 2, Volume 1 will be coming out June 2
HBO's True Blood - The Complete 1st Season on DVD & Blu-ray Disc will be coming out May 19
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In a recent poll of 1.6 million geeks… er, subscribers, TiVo asked which comic book character and/or classic cartoon they most wanted to see given the Transformers treatment. The results: In the comic book category — with Joss Whedon on board or not — the nerds want to see Wonder Woman take flight in her invisible jet like there's no tomorrow — she won 29 percent of the vote. Shockingly, the Green Lantern (I'm sorry, who?!) came in second with 26 percent. In the cartoon TV show category, The Jetsons came out on top with a whopping 30 percent of respondents in favor of seeing Jessica Alba in Judy Jetson drag. (OK, I made up that last part, but you know they were all thinking it.) Family Guy came in second with 25 percent, and — sorry, Ausiello — The Smurfs trailed with 18 percent.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Grindhouse's Robert Rodriguez is in talks to helm a live-action take on The Jetsons, and has also met with Will Ferrell to discuss a big-screen Land of the Lost.... Ethan Hawke investigates a year 2017 plague which turns people into vampires in Daybreakers.... Hilary Swank is hunted by vampires in a film version of the John Marks novel Fangland, says the New York Post.... Per Variety, Stanley Tucci and Jane Krakowski have come on board Abigail Breslin's American Girl feature, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in talks.... Disney has grabbed rights to the life story of Triple Crown winner Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery.
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