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Actress and Emmy winner Pat Carroll, the voice of The Little Mermaid‘s Ursula, has died, our sister site Deadline reports. She was 95.

Carroll, who was also a Grammy winner, died at her home in Cape Cod, Mass. Saturday while recovering from pneumonia.

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Best known by modern audiences for voicing the popular Disney villain, Carroll was a frequent film and TV actress who...

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Pat Carroll, the gregarious Emmy-winning comedienne who was a television mainstay for decades before segueing to a voiceover career that included portraying the villainous sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid, has died. She was 95.

Carroll died Saturday of pneumonia at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her daughter Kerry Karsian told The Hollywood Reporter.

Carroll’s perky personality, screwball wit and impeccable timing made her a great second banana, and Red Buttons, Jimmy Durante, Mickey Rooney, Steve Allen and Charley Weaver were among those who called upon her to make their programs funnier. Her antics on Caesar’s Hour earned her an Emmy in 1957, and she was nominated for her work on the classic variety show the following year.

In a 2013 interview with Kliph Nesteroff, Carroll compared Howard Morris, Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar on Caesar’s Hour to the Chicago Cubs’ legendary double-play...

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Exclusive: Vanguard Films and Animation president and CEO John Williams has locked a deal for screenwriter-author Ross Venokur to write three animated comedy/family feature films. The deal comes after they collaborated on Galaxy High School, a project being developed in partnership with 1492 Films and DreamWorks. "Ross was also a fantastic contributor to crucial drafts of Space Chimps, and he wrote a hilarious CGI/live-action hybrid script for us called The Gnome King," Williams said. Venokur, who makes his living writing novels for children, starts the new deal with The Nut House, a parody of heist films, with critters as the perpetrators. Venokur will follow with a script called Charming, a revenge comedy about what happens when Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty all end up with Prince Charming -- who's the same guy and who learns the perils of providing happy endings for all three. Venokur's repped by ICM and Hung Entertainment Group.

The guys at the GeekCast Radio Network have been bashing IGN’s list of the Top 100 Animated Series for and they’ve finally decided to put their money where their mouth is by compiling their own list of the Top 100 Animated Series Of All Time – and they’ve got a little help! The GeekCast Radio Network has teamed with This Week In Geek, Chicken Pop Pod, The Pop Culture Network, Behind the Voice Actors and… us!

Yes, we here at Blogomatic3000 (well, when I say we I mean me) have compiled our own Top 100 list and that will be combined with the the lists from all the other participating sites to create The definitive Top 100 Animated Series List. As a pre-cursor to the unveiling of the combined list on the Gcrn Podcast we’re running down our Top 100 in two parts: 100-51 yesterday and 50-1 right now!

So without further ado,...

Larry Ditillio, whose writing credits include executive story editor on the series "Bablyon 5," will be honored with the WGA West's 2009 Morgan Cox Award in recognition of his longtime service to the guild and improving the working conditions of his fellow writers.

He will be presented with the award Feb. 7 at the WGA Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.

"Larry has done so much thankless work for our guild, we had to finally say thanks," Wgaw president Patric Verrone said. "If there's a committee Larry hasn't worked on or a service he hasn't performed, he will."

An active Wgaw member since 1973, Ditillio has served on numerous guild committees, including age awareness (1997-2002), freedom of expression (1974-76), new members (1976-81), officers nominating (1979), social activities (1979-89), strike study (1988), tellers (1979-2008), work exchange (1989) and writers craft conference (1996-2000).

Ditillio's other television writing credits include such animated series as "Beast Wars: Transformers," "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,...