Marge Simpson is about to become the first cartoon character to grace the cover of Playboy, reports CBC. Simpson will be featured in the November issue of the magazine, which hits newsstands next Friday.
The magazine reports a three-page spread will “imply nudity,” but the matriarch won’t bare all.
Scott Flanders, the new chief executive at Playboy, says he hopes the move attracts more readers in their 20s. Currently, the average reader’s age is 35.
STEVE KRANTZ, who produced the X-rated animated movie FRITZ THE CAT and created successful TV mini-series out of wife JUDITH KRANTZ’s romance novels, has died. He was 83.
Krantz died of complications from pneumonia on Jan. 4 in Los Angeles.
During his TV career, he wrote for MILTON BERLE and ARTHUR GODFREY and helped create several comedies, including DENNIS THE MENACE and BEWITCHED as head of creative development at Columbia Pictures Television. He was also executive producer for STEVE ALLEN’s THE TONIGHT SHOW.
Krantz later turned to feature films such as Fritz the Cat, based on the ROBERT CRUMB underground comic and COOLEY HIGH, about black high school students in the 1960s.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he produced mini-series based on his wife’s steamy novels, including SCRUPLES, MISTRAL’S DAUGHTER and DAZZLE.
After his retirement, Krantz was involved with mental-heath counseling and former California Governor PETE WILSON appointed him to the board of the California Mental Health Council.
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“Cars” continues to lap its competition.
In its second week of release, the Pixar-Disney computer animated cartoon took the number one spot again in box office revenue, taking in $31.1 million, E! Online reports.
Jack Black’s new comedy, “Nacho Libre,” took second place with $27 million, followed by “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” in third with $24.1 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were “The Lake House” taking in $13.6 million, “The Break Up” taking in $9.5 million, “Garfeild: A Tail of Two Kitties” taking in $7.2 million, “X-Men: The Last Stand” taking in $7.1 million, “The Omen” taking in, $5.3 million, “The Da Vinci Code” taking in $5 million and “Over the Hedge” taking in $4 million.
