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21st November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Mel Blanc’

Don “The Voice” LaFontaine

By Denis Campbell • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Innovators
For 25-years his amazing voice was the movies’ voice. His deep baritone toned voiceover graced more than 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commercials in a 33-year career. Don LaFontaine died this week at age 68 of complications from a long illness.
News of his passing made headlines as his influence was felt in darkened movie theatres [...]


$5 Million a Year, Awesome Dude!

By Denis Campbell • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Media
The stars of the long running hit The Simpsons got a big pay raise last week when the ensemble cast inked a deal worth $250,000 per episode. Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith, the voice over actors behind Matt Groening’s dysfunctional family of Bart, Homer, Marge, Lisa and the rest of the [...]