A NOTE ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR FRIEND CHRISTINE CAVANAUGH

I JUST HEARD THE NEWS - CHRISTINE CAVANAUGH [THE ORIGINAL DEXTER ON DEXTER'S LABORATORY] - HAS PASSED AWAY.

I DID THE FIRST-EVER VOICEOVER JOB WITH CHRISTINE OF HER CAREER. I THINK WE PLAYED A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE. I LOVED HER FROM THE WORD GO.

CHRISTINE AND I WORKED TOGETHER, ON AND OFF, FROM 1996 TO 2001 OR SO ON DEXTER'S LABORATORY. SHE LEFT THE SHOW DURING ITS RUN AND RETIRED FROM THE BUSINESS. ALTHOUGH I ALSO LOVED CANDI, THE GIRL WHO REPLACED HER, CHRISTINE WAS TRULY IRREPLACEABLE.

SHE WAS ALWAYS A JOY AND A DELIGHT TO WORK WITH. HER TIMING, HER INFLECTIONS, HER NATURAL SENSE OF HUMOR WERE ALL SO WONDERFUL.

I AM DEEPLY SADDENED BY CHRISTINE''S PASSING. MY GOD, SHE WAS ONLY 51. BUT LIFE IS ALL TOO OFTEN TRAGIC, AS WE ALL WELL KNOW.

I GUESS WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE AND ADMIRE PASSES ON, YOU FEEL SORRY FOR YOUR OWN LOSS AND YOU FACE THE SEVERE REALITY THAT YOU WILL NOT EVER SEE THEM AGAIN. I DO, MYSELF, BELIEVE IN AN AFTERLIFE, SO I HOPE THIS IS UNTRUE.

I WAS LUCKY TO HAVE KNOWN CHRISTINE.

I SEND HER ALL THE LOVE I HAVE. I SEND HER A HUG AND WISH HER A SAFE AND HAPPY JOURNEY.

MY CHARACTER, MANDARK, HAD A CATCHPHRASE ON DEXTER'S LABORATORY. IT WAS HIS LAUGH: "HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!!!!".

NO CATCHPHRASE COULD BE LESS APPROPRIATE FOR THE WAY I FEEL RIGHT NOW.

Comments

[Gene Mullett]

Sad business. She was on Darkwing Duck, too! RIP

[Sam]

Ah, I didn't know that, it's really sad. I loved her as Dexter, as well as the dozens of other cartoons she did voices for. RIP Christine.