BoSStonsSS
Posts : 770 Join date : 2009-01-22 Age : 36 Location : BOSTON,MA
| Subject: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:40 pm | |
| Steve from blue clues that is. I am watching it now with my son and this Joe guy sux.. | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:52 pm | |
| Welcome to like 2003... LOL! I like Joe better anyways. Steve always had that look like "I hate my job and I can't believe I'm doing this" but Joe is totally into it. Yeah, so I watch kid shows. So what. | |
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Tomz9C1
Posts : 1498 Join date : 2009-01-21 Age : 61 Location : Rumford, Maine
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:57 pm | |
| I think he died from a heroin OD, Thats what I was told. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:10 pm | |
| I remember when Morgan Freeman was on the "Electric Company", and George Carlin was on "Tomas The Tank Engine", but I am at a loss to Steve and Joe and "Blues Clues" |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:32 pm | |
| From Wiki
Casting
Another key to the success of Blue's Clues was casting. According to Traci Paige Johnson, she was cast as Blue's voice because out of the show's crew, she sounded the most like a dog. Nick Balaban, who, along with Michael Rubin, wrote the music for the show, was cast as the voice of Mr. Salt. (Balaban reported that Mr. Salt was not originally French; he spoke with a Brooklyn accent.)[1]
The most important casting was that of the host, the only human character in the show. After over 100 auditions and months of research, the producers hired actor/performer Steve Burns, who remained on Blue's Clues for seven years and was in over one hundred episodes, until he left to pursue a musical career in 2002.[1] As Johnson said, "What made Burns a great children's host was that 'he didn't want to be a children's host ... He loved kids, but he didn't want to make a career out of it.'"[16] Burns himself stated, tongue-in-cheek, "I knew I wasn't gonna be doing children's television all my life, mostly because I refused to lose my hair on a kid's TV show, and it was happenin'—fast."[1]
Burns' departure caused a resurface of the rumors that had circulated about him since 1998. As Burns said, "The rumor mill surrounding me has always been really strange."[1] These "specious claims" included dying from a heroin overdose, being run over by a car, and being replaced, like Paul McCartney of The Beatles, by a look-alike. Some viewers claimed that "clues" regarding Burns' demise were placed within the show.[17] Burns made an appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show to dispute these rumors,[1] and he and co-creator Angela Santomero appeared on Today to help parents assuage the fears of children who might have heard the rumors.[17]
Burns was replaced by Donovan Patton, who was subjected to the same kind of scrutiny to earn the job.[1] "We saw Steve Burns' retirement from the show as a chance to put Blue's Clues on a new course," Johnson said.[18]" | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:35 pm | |
| He left when I was in the Prime demographic for the show, I stopped watching after that. And when Mr. Salt shaker and Mrs. Pepper shaker had Paprika and no one told me how it happened lol.
Rugrats was way better anyway. | |
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LandMaster
Posts : 258 Join date : 2009-09-03 Age : 33 Location : Waterford, New York
| Subject: Re: what happened to steve? Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:45 am | |
| Rocco's Modern life, Thomas the Tank engine and Rugrats were what rotted my brain as a child. | |
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