{"id":6264,"date":"2009-12-01T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:44:09","slug":"tom-cavanagh-is-yogi-bears-ranger-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/01\/tom-cavanagh-is-yogi-bears-ranger-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cavanagh Is YOGI BEAR&#8217;s Ranger Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/RangerSmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6265\" title=\"RangerSmith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/RangerSmith.jpg\" alt=\"RangerSmith\" width=\"200\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>Tom Cavanagh, the Canadian actor who headlined the great (and tragically not on DVD yet) early 2000&#8217;s series <em>Ed<\/em>, has been cast in the upcoming live action\/CGI animated film <strong>Yogi Bear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cavanagh has been cast as Yogi&#8217;s comic foil Ranger Smith, though the <em>Variety<\/em> story which broke the casting news states the character will have more to do than just chase after Yogi and stolen picnic baskets- &#8220;Cavanagh is the male lead and romantic interest of a documentary filmmaker (Anna Faris) who comes to Jellystone Park to shoot a film.&#8221; Dan Aykroyd will be providing the voice of Yogi Bear and Justin Timberlake will be voicing Yogi&#8217;s side-kick Boo-Boo.<\/p>\n<p>This news has me a bit torn. On one hand, I&#8217;m excited that Cavanagh is getting some work. On the other hand, he&#8217;s getting work in a live action <strong>Yogi Bear <\/strong>movie. I can only hope that it is good for his sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Tom Cavanagh, the Canadian actor who headlined the great (and tragically not on DVD yet) early 2000&#8217;s series Ed, has been cast in the upcoming live action\/CGI animated film Yogi Bear. Cavanagh has been cast <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/01\/tom-cavanagh-is-yogi-bears-ranger-smith\/\" title=\"Tom Cavanagh Is YOGI BEAR&#8217;s Ranger Smith\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7868,314,21,3,1652,1799,2246,2245],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-anna-faris","10":"tag-casting","11":"tag-coming-soon","12":"tag-dan-aykroyd","13":"tag-justin-timberlake","14":"tag-tom-cavanagh","15":"tag-yogi-bear"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}