The sports enthusiast

Owen: Da-da, do you want to play basketball?

Thane: Owen, I don't want to play basketball in the dark in the rain.

Owen: OK. (runs outside to play basketball in the dark in the rain)

Mark Finegold writes (at the Internet Chess Club)

I attended Nancy Cartwright's public talk at Oakland University on March 15. Since the fans demanded it, she performed the voices of several of her characters from "The Simpsons" -- Bart (duh), Nelson, Ralph, and Todd. Nancy says that the script for the oft-discussed Simpsons movie is now being written, and her feeling is that it will be two or three years until the movie premieres. During the audience Q&A, someone asked if Nancy had ever been asked about contributing story ideas or scripts. She said that she had no interest in working on that particular aspect of the show, although Dan Castellaneta (Homer) has co-written two scripts with his wife.