The Simpsonswerent on this week because of theSuper Bowl.
Marge is probably watching at Moes, whos probably making book on the game.
Shes spent 25 years looking the other way.
Marge Simpson is TVs great enabler, as Homer reminded her when she temporarily lost her identity.
Rodney Dangerfield himself, as Mr. Burns son Larry, called her a good sport.
When Marge married Homer she promised to love and honor, aid and abet.
Marge encouraged Homer to become the Beer Baron of Springfield and instigated graphic public snuggling.
Marge Simpson is Americas favorite mom and the face of American motherhood abroad.
Why is Maggie still always sucking on that pacifier?
Marge advised a smiling Lisa to be a moaning Lisa, opening the floodgates to years of conservative criticism.
Marge probably bought the spray paint that El Barto tagged all of Springfield with.
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But Marge has saved Springfield.
Without her, the monorail would have overtaken the stairway to nowhere as the towns biggest tourist trap.
Marge pointed out the dangerously nonchalant violence thatItchy and Scratchycartoons spawned years before Krusty saw an episode while sober.
That doesnt explain how easily she slips into the rest of her comic characterizations.
But before any of that, Julie Kavner was Rhodas little sister.
Brenda Morgenstern was on every episode of Rhoda.
Julie Kavner was the poster child for seventies self-doubt.
New York to the core.
She went to Beverly Hills High School and San Diego State University.
But Kavners parents were from the Bronx.
Julie Kavner started playing Brenda Morgenstern onRhodain 1974.
She was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
In 1978, Kavner won a Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Brenda was Rhodas new Mary.
Brenda lived at 332 E. 84th Street.
Julie Kavner and Valerie Harper were the face of New York sisters in the seventies.
Brenda was Julies first professional acting role and she was already representing the single New York woman.
That means Kavner has been consistently representing America for forty years.
Julie Kavner is a national treasure.
Kavner wouldnt be particularly comfortable with that much attention.
WhenThe Simpsonscast was onInside the Actors Studio, the actors did their voices on-camera.
Either that or Julie actually became Marge and it freaked James Lipton out.
Whatever the reason, whenInside the Actors Studiocame back from commercial break Julie was gone.
Julie Kavner is an actor because there was nothing else she wanted to do, ever.
At San Diego State University Kavner played Charlotte Corday inMarat/Sadeand got a reputation for inspired improvisation.
A natural comedian, she was equally adept at drama.
Kavner didnt get cast as Rhoda Morgensterns sister onThe Mary Tyler Moore Show, she auditioned for it.
She did do dinner theater in Canada in a production ofIt Had to be You.
In 1985, Kavner played in the comedy bombBad Medicinebut took theRevenge of the Stepford Wiveson TV.
She didnt get to star in a movie until 1992 inThis Is My Life.
Kavner played stand-up comedian Dottie Ingels.
She loved the character because she was so selfish.
Burt Reynolds directed Kavner in his filmTwo for the Seesaw.
AndMary Tyler Moorefor that matter.Taxitoo.
Kavner played the prescient and intuitive nurse Eleanor Costello to Robin Williams doctor in the filmAwakeningswith Robert De Niro.
Besides Marge, Julie lent her voice toThe Lion King 112andDr.
Kavner was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award her starring role inThe Girl Who Couldnt Losein 1975.
And to think, Julie Kavner sometimes phones in her lines onThe Simpsons.
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