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FAQ, by vince mora aka synth oberheim synth@swcp.com.
4.7 I occasionally see in the credits that Charlie Adler has been replaced. What happened to him? (Tiny Toons)
Will Bell (bell@cs.tamu.edu) writes:
> Here's a pretty credible answer written by [Sidney Adams] on Fidonet
> and posted by Ron Bauerle (Thanks Ron!):
> Here is the story that I was told by Paul Dini, Tress MacNeille, Joe
> Alaskey, Tom Reugger, Don Messick, Frank Welker and Sherri Stoner.
> They all said that Alaskey and Adler found out that Tress was making
> more per episode on Tiny Toons than they were and they were both upset
> because everyone who worked on Tiny Toons got regular roles on the new
> show Animaniacs except them.
>
> Alaskey and Adler were both with the same agent at the time, I.C.M.
> The head agent there was a friend of Andrea Romano who hires the voices
> for WB. Alaskey and Adler both went in and accused their agent of not
> asking for top money for them in order to make his friend Andrea look
> good for keeping the budget down. Alaskey and Adler both quit that
> agent over this and went to WB and demanded higher pay for [TTA] and
> regular work on Animaniacs. They were both very rude and insulting to
> everyone and so they were both fired. Adler was replaced as Buster
> Bunny by John Kassir. Alaskey was briefly replaced as Plucky Duck by
> Maurice LeMarche but then Alaskey came back and apologized and he wound
> up doing the last few Plucky recordings.
>
> At an A.S.I.F.A. gathering, I taped Alaskey's answer to the question
> of what had happened. He said: "We had a money dispute with Warners.
> We went to our agent and said "Jeff, we can't have this". But Warners
> said that was it and, well, we walked off the show, which I later
> regretted, because apart from that, they'd treated me pretty well.
> But Charlie kept on walking and said some things ... well, let's just
> say he said some things he shouldn't have".
>
> At the San Diego Con this year, Paul Dini said: "There was a money
> dispute ... and Charlie thought we'd get down on our knees and pay
> him more and that Spielberg would insist we get him back. But when
> they went to Steven and told him how Charlie was behaving, screaming
> at everyone, he just said "Find someone else who can do the voice".
> They sent over a tape of someone else doing Buster, and Steven
> listened to it and said "Fine, that guy's Buster from now on".
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