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25 September 2008 4:02 AM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

Disney today announced that Oprah Winfrey will be voicing Eudora (the mother of the princess) in the animated film THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. The movie marks Disney's return to animated musicals, teaming Ron Clements and John Musker, creators of THE LITTLE MERMAID and ALADDIN, with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman to tell the most beautiful love story ever told...with frogs, voodoo, and a singing alligator. You know, as I just wrote that I realized that if there was ever a news piece...

James Thoo

24 September 2008 6:50 PM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Our LA correspondent and tenth level magic user Jenna Busch just phoned in from a presentation at Disney (where she caught a sneak peek at Bolt, review under embargo) where it was announced that Oprah Winfrey will be voicing the role of Eudora, the mother to the Princess in The Princess and the Frog.  We’re jazzed for this film as it marks a return to 2D animation for Disney and the N’awlins themed music will be scored by our favorite strabismus victim slash MOT Angelino Randy Newman.  TPATF comes out in December of 2009.

24 September 2008 3:30 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Earlier today, FS.net attended a Walt Disney Studios Showcase preview where it was announced that Oprah Winfrey will lend her voice to the character of Eudora in Disney's return to hand animation titled The Princess and the Frog. Eudora is mother to the lead character, Princess Tiana, who will notably be the first African American Disney princess. Oprah has assumed other voice-over roles in the past, including Bee Movie's Judge Bumbleton. At the same Hollywood event, it was announced that Randy Newman would write a total of six songs for the film, including one called "Down in New Orleans." Newman, if you didn't know, is a legendary composer who has also written music for much of Pixar's line-up. Considering that New Orleans is my all-time favorite city, which is the setting of Princess, and that I have an odd fascination with frogs, I can honestly say that despite

Kevin Powers

7 August 2008 12:34 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

More than 30 years ago, Randy Newman wrote a song about how hard it is to live in Baltimore.

That might be as true now as it was then, but despite that (or because of it), little old Baltimore has emerged as some sort of television paradise - a cradle of miracles where TV producers go, toil for a time, and then return to civilization with some of the best TV shows ever made.

The list is short but sweet: "Homicide: Life on the Street," "The Wire," and now, "Hopkins," a seven-part documentary series about Johns Hopkins Hospital, produced

By ADAM BUCKMAN

4 August 2008 9:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

For more than 40 years, Randy Newman has written and sung songs that are stinging in their irony and unabashed in their sentiment, even if it isn't always immediately clear which is which. The same man who wrote the heartbreakingly beautiful "Sail Away," which slowly reveals itself as a slave trader's sales pitch, also crafted "They Just Got Married," a jaunty love song with this transition: "Anyway, she dies." Part of the pleasure of Newman's songcraft comes from never quite knowing where you stand. That's true of the folks within Newman's songs, too. Harps And Angels, Newman's first new pop album since Bad Love in 1999, opens with a title track in which a man undergoes a near-death experience. Maybe. The angels sound like background singers, and the good advice he gets from God is pretty vague. Even when the focus shifts away from death, it's still an album...

Keith Phipps

5 articles from 2008