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Jim Varney as Cookie
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Toon Talk Trivia:
The late Jim Varney ("Cookie") is best known as Ernest P. Worrel on television and in an unusually successful series of films. He also brought the Slinky Dog to life in Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Atlantis: The Lost Empire was his last film.
David Ogden Stiers (Harcourt) was, of course, heard as Cogsworth in Beauty & the Beast and Governor Ratcliffe in Pocahontas, among others.
Corey Burton ("The Mole") has provided voices for several Disney films, including Aladdin, A Goofy Movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules and Toy Story 2.
James Newton Howard, the composer of the music for Atlantis: The Lost Empire, also wrote the score for Dinosaur.
The prolific songwriter Diane Warren has been nominated five times for the Best Song Oscar, including "Because You Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal, "How Do I Live" from Con Air, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon and the title song from Music of the Heart. Will her Atlantis end-credit ballad "Where the Dream Takes You" (co-written with James Newton Howard and performed by current Moulin Rouge pop tart Mya) be number six?
CinemaScope was also utilized for Lady & the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and A Bug's Life.
Milo and friends are already scheduled to return in the new animated television series Team Atlantis. All the original voice talent is returning, save Michael J. Fox. Milo will be voiced by James Arnold Taylor (Futurama.).
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Related Links
- LaughingPlace.com Interview with Atlantis screenwriter Tab Hunter
- Destination Atlantis at the El Capitan Theater
- Official Atlantis: The Lost Empire site
- Atlantis:
The Lost Empire on IMDB
Includes full cast and other film details
-- Kirby C. Holt
Kirby is a lifelong Disney fan and film buff. A frequent contributer to the LaughingPlace.com Discussion Boards, he currently resides near one of the Happiest Places on Earth: Orlando, Florida.
Took Talk: Disney Film & Video Reviews by Kirby C. Holt is posted whenever there's something new to review.
The opinions expressed by our Kirby C. Holt, and all of our columnists, do not necessarily represent the feelings of LaughingPlace.com or any of its employees or advertisers. All speculation and rumors about the future plans of the Walt Disney Company are just that - speculation and rumors - and should be treated as such.
-- Posted June 18, 2001