Not Just Voiceover

How cool, and well deserved. The Directors Guild of America renamed the Best Voice Over category as the Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over. This year’s winner was Corey Burton for his work “Tropic Thunder – Hollywood Legend” a spoof of the making of documentary “Heart of Darkness” Congrats Corey and to The Don…we [...]

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Interesting article in todays New York Times, featuring Hal Douglas. Excerpt: IT’S been almost eight months since the death of Don LaFontaine, and everyone who’s anyone in his business — the business of announcing movie trailers — says there will never be another Thunder Throat. Often called “the voice of God,” Mr. LaFontaine recorded voice-overs [...]

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Variety by CAROLINE RYDER  Don LaFontaine, the so-called “Voice of God” who held a virtual monopoly over the narration of bigtime movie trailers until his death Sept. 1, had a clear idea of who his successor should be — God’s voice, he said, should belong to a woman. “I think women are vastly underrepresented in this area,” [...]

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Just found this video compilation tribute to The Don. Thought I’d pass it on. See more funny videos at Funny or Die

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Please take a moment to visit Bob Souer’s Boblog to read the compilation of tributes to Don LaFontaine that are available on the web. Thanks for the great effort in putting it together Bob.

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Sad news as the voiceover legend, Don LaFontaine took a turn for the worse and has passed away at 68. Prayers go out to his family during this tough time.

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