Comments on: R.I.P., movie trailer guy http://www.johnturner.com/2008/09/02/rip-movie-trailer-guy/ World Domination...not THE world, just mine. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Longfield http://www.johnturner.com/2008/09/02/rip-movie-trailer-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Longfield Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:50:33 +0000 http://www.johnturner.com/?p=76#comment-999 Don LaFontaine, count me in as an admirer but one of his fans. Myspace has a memorial web page in his memory. In memory. Regards, Longfield Don LaFontaine, count me in as an admirer but one of his fans.
Myspace has a memorial web page in his memory.
In memory.
Regards,
Longfield

]]> By: John Turner http://www.johnturner.com/2008/09/02/rip-movie-trailer-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-978 John Turner Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:09:42 +0000 http://www.johnturner.com/?p=76#comment-978 Yes, but other announcers are already imitating his delivery. The voiceovers on the new car ads are almost certainly impersonations, and I've heard movie ads he likely did not record as well. He's going to be one of those voices that outlives its master, like the Groucho Marx voice currently featured in the Clausen pickles ads. I remember that in the 1990s NBC DateLine followed Don around for a day. He commuted all over Los Angeles hitting at least one sound studio an hour, whisked along in his personal limousine. At the time he actually made more money than any A-list movie star, yet the public didn't know his face and seldom connected his many vocal deliveries to one man. All this from a guy whose first career was developing film stock at a lab for a few hundred bucks a month. Yes, but other announcers are already imitating his delivery. The voiceovers on the new car ads are almost certainly impersonations, and I’ve heard movie ads he likely did not record as well. He’s going to be one of those voices that outlives its master, like the Groucho Marx voice currently featured in the Clausen pickles ads.
I remember that in the 1990s NBC DateLine followed Don around for a day. He commuted all over Los Angeles hitting at least one sound studio an hour, whisked along in his personal limousine. At the time he actually made more money than any A-list movie star, yet the public didn’t know his face and seldom connected his many vocal deliveries to one man. All this from a guy whose first career was developing film stock at a lab for a few hundred bucks a month.

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