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The fellow with the Christmas tree


who was the individual carrying the Christmas tree walking down the street? was that some sort of cameo or something?

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yeah, i think it's the guy who voices Homer Simpson.

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Seriously?

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Yeah. If you look at the cast list on the IMDB entry, Dan Castellaneta is listed as "Phil", but if i recall correctly, he wasn't even addressed by name on screen. But I also read somewhere that the Christmas tree guy was indeed supposed to be him. I've never heard Dan Castellaneta's real voice outside of "The Simpsons", but the fact that his voice sounded so gruff in "Love Affair", and that he was masked behind a Christmas tree, strikes me as a kind of parodying jab at "The Simpsons", which at the time was very strict about having its cast members take other acting gigs and making public appearances in general. (As a side note, If I recall correctly, the Billy Crystal movie "Forget Paris" came out around the same time as "Love Affair", give or take. And I remember that Debra Winger's best friend, I think, was played by the chick who voices Marge Simpson.)

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So the whole part was to carry a tree? wow.
I remember her role in Forget Paris.. and She was also in Awakenings

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I believe you are correct that it was Dan Castellaneta. I wondered if it was a cameo by someone "famous" given the way they wouldn't show the guy's face and it was a comic bit, now I suspect they didn't show his face in hopes the viewer would recognize his voice.

But THE SIMPSONS show is absolutely not "very strict" in limiting public appearances by the cast or letting them accept other roles, heck that girl who does Bart, Nancy Cartwright, was all over the media in the show's first few seasons and "the chick who voices Marge Simpson" as you call her is the very well-known actress Julie Kavner who has done scores of acting jobs over the years and has even starred in a few films.

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Dan Castellaneta was the guy in the recording studio, about 60 minutes into the film, as Annette Bening and two other women are back up singing to Ed McMahon's soup add.

Martin Scorsese IS the best

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