Wackjob Nancy Cartwright gives 10 million to wipe out psychology

Stupid cult, stupid woman, imagine all the good this money could have done for a real charity.

by Richard Johnson with Paula Froelich

Bart Simpson Actress Gives $10 Million to Scientology by Philip Recchia

Filed Under John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Nancy Cartwright, Tom Cruise

Longtime Scientologist Nancy Cartwright -- best known as the voice of Bart Simpson -- last year gave the church $10 million to help spread the word of founder L. Ron Hubbard into other galaxies.

It was all part of Scientology's Global Salvage effort, which aims to "de-aberrate" Earth -- meaning to rid mankind of psychology ills and other "aberrant" behavior.

Surprisingly, Nancy, 50, forked over twice as much as the Scientology's most prominent member, Tom Cruise, who only gave $5 million in an installment plan.

In 2004, the 46-year-old Lions for Lambs actor was awarded a Platinum Meritorious Award for a $2.5 million gift. Two years later, he doled out another $2.5 million, for which the International Association of Scientologists kicked him up to Diamond Meritorious awardee.

Recent Scientology publications reveal that a host of A-list Scientologists were honored for their generosity at a black-tie awards ceremony at the church's headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., last summer.

PageSix.com obtained copies of Impact magazine, which feature images of the various gold trophies, crystal statuettes and plaques "awarded to members who have donated" the respective amounts of money.

The Simpsons star (above) appears in a photo at the event with fellow Patron Laureate Awardees Steve Brackell and Jack and Lucy Murphy, as well as Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige.

Kirstie Alley matched Tom's donation, but fellow actors John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston donated just a million each. Former Mrs. Elvis, Priscilla Presley, kicked in a relatively paltry $50,000.

Here are some of the celeb gifts from 2007 and their corresponding rewards:

Nancy Cartwright, 50, Patron Laureate Award: $10 million. Kirstie Alley, 57, Diamond Meritorious Award: $5 million. John Travolta, 53, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million. Kelly Preston, 45, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million. Priscilla Presley, 62, Patron Award: $50,000. Nancy, like her fellow principal cast members on The Simpsons, has reportedly been earning $250,000 per episode since 2004, when her salary was upped from $125,000 per episode. At 22 episodes per season, that makes for an annual paycheck of $5.5 million.

Calls to Nancy's agent for comment were not returned at publication time.

In article <0cf8565e-31af-4f84-9f08-248d6eeb8e51 @c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, [email] says...

This is the network that canceled Firefly because it wasn't getting enough ratings to be "affordable." One ep of the Simpsons costs them more than an entire five-year run of Firefly would have.

On Jan 31, 7:47 am, Forge wrote:

Huh?   How do you work that out?  What are there....six-eight
principal cast members on "The Simpsons," at a quarter million each
per episode?   So what's that....about two million per episode in cast
salaries?   How much did you think "Firefly" cost to make?

In article <4f0e624b-0a04-4e40-861a-210055b76269@ 1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com>, [email] says...

Uh. The rest of the show costs money to produce too y'know. That's $2 mil per ep //just for the voice talent.// I bet the whole cast of FF didn't get 2 mil for the entire run, total.

On Jan 31, 10:28 pm, Forge wrote:

In that case, you're simply delusional.

I would guess that you are very, very wrong, even if they all got scale. *

In article , Forge wrote:

How do you figure that? You think an episode of the Simpsons costs over $100 million?

In article <[email] media.com>, [email] says...

I bet FF wasn't that expensive.

In article , Forge wrote:

Firefly was easily that expensive. Five years of Firefly would be well over 100 episodes. There's no way it cost less than a million an episode going in; it would have cost way more than that by the end of the run.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:30:46 -0700, Anim8rFSK wrote:

Yep, the only Sci-Fi show that managed to keep the costs consistently under a million an ep in recent time was Babylon-5. That only happened because they always made sure to keep the filming time down to a week per ep. Most shows go into 7 or 8 days filming, at least. That adds to the cost. I would be surprised if any currently filming SciFi show can be filmed for under $1.5 million. Animation can end up being just as costly as special effects of a sci-fi show though the cost may be mitigated by it being done in Korea.

Okay, I sit corrected then.

Well, lie actually. Nearly supine, to be honest.

You'd lose that bet. Firefly cost $2 million per episode: see http://www.fireflyfans.net/news.asp?newsid=350

Don't get me wrong--I'm not anti-Firefly by any means. But it *was* a costly show to produce. And The Simpsons is profitable, so it hardly matters how much they spend on it, anyway.

I think you have that fairly backwards. Even a bare-bones SF show tends to cost a couple of million or so per episode these days, and firefly wasn't all that bare-boned. Animation isn't cheap either, but SF series tend to be the highest cost of any produced series. *

Forge wrote:

Did you bother to take into account how much Fox takes in from the advertising for that one episode of The Simpsons (not to mention the episode's share of the DVD income)? I seriously doubt the actors would be making that much if the show wasn't making serious money.

-- Don

On Jan 30, 8:55 pm, Garondo Marondo wrote:

Wow, looks like that "bootleg The Simpsons!" kook might have been right after all.

On Jan 30, 11:55 pm, Garondo Marondo wrote:

People starving in this country and without health care. Animals being brutalized daily and what does this cunt do but give money to a bunch of rascals. Whomever released that tape claiming they will bring these idiots to their knees I hope does it successfully.

Nobody is fucking starving in the United States. Jesus...

In article <64b2395d-9197-4f78-8f8e-f674cc421670 @s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, [email] says...

Tell me you're not serious.

I wonder how Nancy managed to keep a straight face when they were voicing the 'Movementarians' episode, with 'The Leader' and his pedal-powered spaceship? It must have seemed awfully close to home...

[From snnp synopsis for the episode:]

The Church of Scientology
     - the Movementarians took over the local television and newspaper
       outlets.  The Scientologists, likewise have been accused of
       manipulating supposedly impartial information sources (see "Comments
&
       Observations" for more information) {bjr}
     - later, the Movementarians sic the lawyers on the Simpsons.  The
       Scientologists also have the reputation of deploying lawyers to
defend
       themselves {bjr}

So the resemblance cannot have ignored by the cast.

Paul

She's pretty dumb; they probably told her it was based on Heaven's Gate.

Matt Groening convinced her the "Temple of Robotology" in Futurama had nothing to do with the Church of Scientology because it said "Temple" instead of "Church".

Indeed, but from the Scientologist's point of view - they may well not make that connection?

The fact that in their own eyes the Scientology cult has legitimacy is self-evident. Taking that into account you'd have to question their ability to see any resemblance at all, let alone having any real independent/critical thinking abilities.

By 99% of them, yes :)

He's certainly not hungry! ;)

Huh, a fool and his money ARE soon parted. How 'bout that?

Herb Kauhry wrote:

Best answer yet!!!

In article , [email] says...

A fool and his money are some party!

Garondo Marondo wrote:

Not to mention her children (I know she has a daughter somewhere near college age, and have you seen what it costs just to go to UCLA for a year?

However, if they ever are, something tells me one of the things that will be pointed out is that Nancy never reveals her salary (see her book).

-- Don

In article , Don Del Grande wrote:

Why would you think that someone who can afford to give 10-mil to their church wouldn't also be able to afford to send her kid to college at the same time?

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 at 20:55:42, Garondo Marondo wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :

Don't get me started - to me I see very little difference between established religions, and new-fangled 'cults'...

Better there than here... :)

Nice work if you can get it!!

Paul Hyett wrote in news:+ [email]:

A charity doesn't necessarily have to have a connection with a religion.

On Jan 30, 11:55 pm, Garondo Marondo wrote:

Why should you care what someone does with their own money?

Larry Bud wrote:

Kind of my feeling. Whether you give it the them, the Baptists, or Zombie Jesus(6).

Brian

Because we Simpson fans bear a small part of the blame for her accumulating such wealth. And "wiping out psychiatry" is a very bad thing.

I thought Larry Bud Melman was dead.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 at 12:54:36, =?GB2312?B?xaPEp831?= wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :

Presumably they need plenty of loonies around to be their new recruits? :)

In article , Larry Bud wrote:

Because they're doing harm with it.

I was aware Cartwright was a scientologist - but OMG - this gesture on her behalf is something else.

Combined with the latest episode that aired... this is one week I wish to forget about (Simpsons-wise at least)!

Why don't we worry about the trillions Bush and Cheney have spent murdering middle-easterners instead of the millions $cientology has gotten for recruiting idiots who'd just have joined some other meaningless cult anyway?

"Go back to Russia!"

Because some of us can handle more than one thought process at the same time?

But not in your case.

Nancy Kerrigan says hi.

What fun is there in that? <sigh>