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Peter Robbins, the original voice actor for Charlie Brown in the first Peanuts animated television specials, has been sentenced to one year in jail for threatening a former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon. Robbins has been in jail since his arrest in January, and pleaded guilty to the charges against him in April. He…
Former Charlie Brown voice actor Peter Robbins has pleaded not guilty to 2 counts of stalking and 10 counts of criminal threats. The charges relate to Robbins’ ex-girlfriend and the plastic surgeon who performed a breast augmentation on her. The actor is currently in jail with bail set at $550,000, and a preliminary hearing is…
Exhibition of Rare Animation Cels Schulz Museum Celebrates the Holiday Season with The Art of Peanuts Animation (Santa Rosa, CA) Peanuts has been associated with the holidays since that December evening in 1965 when A Charlie Brown Christmas was broadcast on television for the first time. Forty-seven years later, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is highlighting…
ComingSoon.net reports that Peanuts Worldwide, 20th Century Fox, and Blue Sky Studios will be uniting to produce a Peanuts feature film slated for release on November 25, 2015, marking the 65th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the seminal TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. Schulz’s son Craig…
GET SET TO ROOT FOR SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN ON HAPPINESS IS…PEANUTS™: GO, SNOOPY, GO! A HEARTWARMING SET OF PEANUTS STORIES RELEASED ON DVD OCTOBER 9, 2012 FROM WARNER HOME VIDEO Release Includes Television Special It’s Spring Training, Charlie Brown BURBANK, CA (June 26, 2012) – Let’s play ball with Snoopy and Charlie Brown! Warner…
Hey, look! It’s another Peanuts collection! Ahhhh, Peanuts, for those times when you really need a dip into the nostalgia pool. Unfortunately it’s more of a nostalgia kiddie pool than anything else. Friends Forever brings together one 30-minute TV special from 1968, You’re In Love Charlie Brown, and an episode of The Charlie Brown and…
STORIES OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP ARE CAPTURED ON WARNER HOME VIDEO’S HAPPINESS IS…PEANUTS™: FRIENDS FOREVER A NEW COMPILATION FEATURING CLASSIC PEANUTS TV PROGRAMS AVAILABLE DECEMBER 27, 2011 Release Includes the 1968 Emmy® Nominated Television Special You’re in Love, Charlie Brown BURBANK, CA (December 23, 2011) – Charlie Brown’s hilarious and heartbreaking attempts to meet his…
A few years ago, Happiness Is … Peanuts Snow Days would have been released as a deluxe edition DVD titled She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown, with an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show as the bonus feature. However, I am convinced that Warner Home Video’s Peanuts DVD release strategy has been specifically…
BEAT WINTER’S CHILL WITH WARNER HOME VIDEO’S HEARTWARMING DVD RELEASE OF HAPPINESS IS…PEANUTS™: SNOW DAYS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18, 2011 All-Time Favorite Classic Peanuts Seasonal Specials Including A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Others are Also Available This Fall BURBANK, CA ( October 10, 2011 ) –…
and Sarah Silverman leading a mime-themed “Dancey Dance” segment. Both fit in to Gabbaland perfectly, making their guest-starring roles just extra spice for the supervising adults who recognize them. In contrast, Fred Armisen and Charlyne Yi in “Treasure” are nowhere near as successful because they never seem to get over their self-consciousness as a pair…
