#don lafontaine

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[nerds-yearbook]

On May 25, 1997, "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction" premiered. ("The Apparition/The Electric Chair/On the Road/Number One With a Bullet", Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, TV, event)

[merelymatt]

Reblog to see the back of the embroidery:

If we can get I Need A Miracle trailer to 50 notes, I'll post the unused takes of my bits of the trailer, including the one where I attempt the Don LaFontaine "IN A WORLD" trailer voice

I WILL endure pointing and laughing if it gets this show the audience it deserves!!

@foggyoutline presents I Need A Miracle

An original audio drama produced by @wirelesstheatre

Season 1 begins on 29 August and continues weekly on Thursdays.

Our trailer features the voices of:

Annette Badland

David Holt

@merelymatt

Music by Katharine Seaton

Sound design by Sarah Buchynski

Cover art by Dionysis Livanis

Transcript:

[secondbeatsongs]

disco elysium AU where it's disney's fillmore and everyone is middle school hall monitors send post

[writeblrsummerfest]

You've introduced your story to us once. Now, I want you to do it again! This time, I want to hear you present it to me as if your story is an up-and-coming blockbuster.

Go all out! What would the name of the presenting studies be? How can you make your prompt match the grandeur of our Old Friend, Movie Preview Narrator? (also known as Don LaFontaine)

[calyxthenerd]

Writing Request:

This is purely a crack fic suggestion so no pressure if you don’t do it

Avengers x Violetta

like the Avengers plus any other marvel characters you like (including villians), are students at Studio 21/On beat studio 😭

I’m not aware of your rules for requests but if you write ships I lile Stony. Purely up to you if you want to include it.

If you asked Tony about his opinion of the assignment they were given, he’d tell you it was pure horseshit, after all, how was a minor fraud threat in fucking Argentina anywhere near the Avengers’ jurisdiction? and to make matters worse, the whole team went together to face a barely armed family of civilians with no powers “we just wanted to see the sights” Natasha insisted, though they all knew they were there to keep an eye on Peter, after all it was the kid’s first time operating outside his masked identity, cause they couldn’t risk a leak on the fact that any member of the avengers was around

But anyways, Tony was pissed because instead of the soccer game he bought tickets, front row tickets by the way, for him and Steve to go to on their next date, now he had to play family with Natasha and the kid, pretending to be a couple interested in enrolling their son in a random music school? Because apparently the targets operated close to that specific school, Steve was the one to organize this mission so the specifics are lost on him, though if he was to guess, this was his way to organize a group vacation…

So, the easiest way to catch their targets was through the students at that school, which is why himself, Natasha and Peter are currently standing in front of the weirdest school faculty he’s ever seen, being presided by who seems to be the only sane person in that place

“I’m Pablo, the principal of the Studio, you are” he grabs the enrollment papers “Donovan Lewis, and his parents I presume?”

“That’s correct, now tell me Pablo, what is the usual auditioning process in your school?” Tony asked, but before he got an answer, a very excitable young girl appeared, greeting the blonde teacher, who Tony is pretty sure taught a singing class? with a kiss on the cheek

“Hi Angie” the girl said, before glancing at the foreigner group “who are they?”

“Hi Vilu” the woman answered “these are the Lewis family, their son might be joining the studio this year! Mr and Mrs Lewis, this is my niece, Violetta, if you like, she could give Donovan a tour of the building, there aren’t a lot of people who know this place better than her, plus, she can introduce him to her friends so he can get to know everyone?”

“Of course, Ms Carrara, that would be quite nice, thank you, Violetta” Natasha, the saint, who remembers people’s names, smiles at the girl, before turning to her “son” “go ahead, Don, go see the school” and so the girl joyfully linked arms with the young man and dragged him away

“Mr and Mrs Lewis, join me in my office, so we can further discuss the audition process, if you please?”

“Of course, Sir, lead the way” Natasha hooked her arm through Tony’s and discreetly pushed him to follow the other man, making him roll his eyes

Meanwhile, across Buenos Aires

The rest of the team, who have already found the culprits, Jade and Mathias LaFontaine, and their father, who refused to disclose his name and were assisting in their arrest, after they were loaded into police cars, while Clint, Wanda, Bruce and Thor were conversing with the local police, Bucky asked his best friend “So, why are we really here?”

“Well, I think the whole team deserved a vacation, so I arranged it” the blonde shrugged

“Yeah, well, there were a lot of ways to go about it, and why Argentina?” Bucky pushed on

“To be honest, I saw stuff about that school on tv, and Peter always comes to the tower so exhausted, but he never seems happier than when he’s humming and dancing around, so I though an undercover mission here would be the perfect way to get him to relax and take a break” Steve confessed

Bucky cackled “Oh my god, Stevie, you’re such a dad”

“I guess I am” Steve snorted

Back at the Studio

Peter got along great with the students and passed all of his auditions, which led him to the decision to stay for a semester while keeping up with his studies remotely through his dear friend Ned, after his dads Tony and Steve pulled some strings, speaking of Tony and Steve, “Mr Lewis” travelled on business shortly after his son’s enrollment, leaving his wife in charge of their son, in the company of her brothers and niece, which resulted in the couple being able to watch their soccer game after all, and Natasha engaged in some light flirtation with Pablo, since in all her years as a spy, she always wanted to play the role of an adulterous wife, the idea being highly amusing to her. Overall, what was an odd mission that they were undoubtedly overqualified for, turned into a joyful affair for all members of the team

[s-sputnik-k]

anyone want to do a fandom swap? specifically with bands/music artists btw

like we give each other a few song recs, maybe an album, and some live content or interviews to get to know them, or even some lore if it's that sort of band. and maybe join like a community like either on tumblr or a discord server to get a feel for the fandom. I just think it'd be neat

here's a few bands I like already:

sleep token

don broco

periphery

dance gavin dance (mainly tilian and current era)

music I like but probably wouldn't know enough about to recommend for this:

vola

bilmuri

loathe

tesseract

I'd really like to try and recommend something I think you'd actually like so if none of this sounds up your alley, then it might not work lol (but also if you're open minded I'm sure there will be something for you here). and vice versa, I'd like for you to pick something you think I may like (of course we can't know for sure, but we can make an educated guess!). I know I've listed some fairly heavy bands, but I do also listen to a lot of less heavy bands, they're just typically lesser known (eg. the lafontaines, slix, dead pony). I'm also intrigued by prog rock, jazz, and fusion so if you'd like to recommend that I'd be totally on board! and I can probably find some technical prog stuff that you'd like

I'm defo open to trying something I've never heard of, but here's some bands I already know I would love to discover:

ghost

lorna shore

spiritbox

bmth

bad omens

eidola

falling in reverse

any band that is playing/has played Radar Festival, ESPECIALLY bands lined up for 2025 because I need to listen to them lmao

so yeah you can reply to this post or hmu in dms if you're interested! I'd probably prefer to talk on discord once we've initially connected

[worminthewood]

being dehydrated sucks but also if I haven't had enough water I can make my voice sound exactly like Don LaFontaine

[toughpaperround]

George DelHoyo

In 911 fox he plays Ramon Diaz, Eddie's father. He appears first in episode 2x18 but also returns numerous times, most recently for a tentative reconciliation in 6x04.

George was born in 1953 in Uruguay but raised in Utah, USA. He began acting in theatres in New York, when he was also known as George DeLoy. He has appeared in numerous, diverse day player roles throughout the 80's and 90's. He played the villainous character Orpheus in the TV soap 'Days of Our Lives', returning to the role in just the last few years. (youtube clip)

As a bilingual voice actor he has voiced many film trailers and network television promos as well as a few games. Check out his 'Pretty Little Liars' trailer on youtube (the show in which his 'son' went on to star in season 4 😁) - or catch this interesting short interview on youtube where we see his recording set-up in 2010. Notice his animated body language whilst he records, especially compared to the stillness he has as Ramon or Orpheus.

George was also one of several founding members of the Voice-Over Lab, a mentoring foundation in memory of Don 'In-a-World' LaFontaine, and he was part of this SAG-AFTRA panel (youtube)

His wife of many years is the actress Deborah May, who will also be recognised by 911 fans as a guest actor in season 3.

[IMDb] [other 911 cast bios]

[doctortwhohiddles]

Just posting this for reasons

Yup, that's Aeltri. She posted this back in 2012. That means 11 years ago. Strange how she went from hating him to thinking he's a friend of hers.

Here's what it says for those who can't see properly:

It almost seems like every time Benedict goes out in public without someone to reign him in, a PR disaster soon follows. TBH, if I were that socially inept, I'd make like Don LaFontaine and stick to audio narration. I don't care how talented his Tumblr mobdom thinks he is either, his asinine "opinions" on radial/social/economic issues coupled with a Kanye-worthy ego negate any pity I may have felt initially. Which brings me to:

Hypotinia and micropenis, along with a varying degree of feminine body features, are a hallmark of Klinefeller's Syndrom. Klinefeller's is a chromosomal disorder in (phenotypical) males that have a XXY karyotype. If you think about it, they really should be considered intersex individuals, albeit at a purely genetic level. I also remember reading about some health problems Balderdash had while filming. One was linked to a high estrogen level which is yet another sign.

[lizardsfromspace]

When Don LaFontaine, the Movie Trailer Voice Guy, died they stopped doing Movie Trailer Voices entirely, but it's important to note that even though he was the most prolific he was not the only Movie Trailer Voice Guy. There were others who I guess were thrown into his tomb with him so they can join him in the afterlife narrating movie trailers when he's busy with other movie trailers

[nicholasandriani]

Beyond Survival: Music, Cybertext, and Paratext in “The Last of Us. A Three-Part Series In a world teetering on the brink of collapse, Less than a decade ago, you might have envisioned the iconic voice of Don LaFontaine echoing in your mind upon reading such an introduction. Now, as these realities seem inevitable, we’ve lost our sense of what’s purely fictional. The Last of Us” emerges not…

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Trout (Losey, 1982)

I understand that this was originally supposed to be made in the '60s with Brigitte Bardot in the lead, and it's interesting to consider how that casting would have completely changed the energy of the overall movie. I won't pretend to be an expert in Bardot's career, but I have seen Contempt and I've seen And God Created Woman, in which her beauty provides the crux of the story. I'll try not to get too regressive here in how I pick this apart, but I think Bardot is attractive in an obvious, conventional way and more so can project a kind of sexual magnetism that makes it easy to understand why other characters would be pulled into her orbit.

Now, I'll bravely stand up like the subject of Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech and say that I happen to find Isabelle Huppert quite attractive. (Please applaud my courage during this trying time.) But the way she plays the character here is comparatively icy, poker-faced. The way she responds to the proceedings is primarily bemusement than anything else. Her demeanour, in part due to her age at the time she made this, seems childish. (I also just watched Entre Nous, made only two years later but where she seems at least a decade older, and I'd like to know what kind of witchcraft allowed her to pull that off and then stop aging in the decades since.)

But I think this is less Huppert than the way the movie frames her, as aside from one scene in which she takes off her dress in a bar after a waiter spills a drink on her, it never even tries to capture her distinct sex appeal. The movie's approach is intellectual when it should be lizard-brained and libidinous, thinking with its brains when it should think with its hips, so that we never really understand why characters might be driven to ruin their lives over their desire for her, but merely observe this happen from a mocking distance. I do think there's something interesting in how it captures the transactional nature of sex (a dynamic articulated by the poster's tagline, which is very fun to read in Don LaFontaine's voice), contrasting the heroine's grubby origins in a drab looking trout farm with her entry into more affluent spheres, seen in muted golden hues like in a jewelry store. But again, the movie treats both the heroine and her suitors with too much distance for this to resonate.

[kick-dickem]

I read this like a Don LaFontaine "in a world..." trailer and was a little confused

In a world of people who move on from a television show the moment it ends someone who rewatches and liveblogs the same show routinely and freaks out over things they’ve seen ten times already is not only a necessity but a treasure

[bllsbailey]

'It's Different This Time'—Powerful Trump Video Highlights Massive Changes We've Seen in Less Than 1 Week

You can almost imagine the deep-voiced movie trailer narrator of yore, the late great Don LaFontaine: “In a land before time, in a place beyond imagination…” and the like, introducing the video that President Donald Trump dropped on X Saturday night highlighting his first 100 hours in office.

It has that feeling. 

As we’ve been reporting, the president has been on a tear, signing hundreds of executive orders basically nuking many of the failed Biden administration’s efforts to destroy America as we know it, eviscerating the DEI policies that have poisoned everything from our military to our top corporations, making moves to make us energy dominant once again and get rid of the woke “Green New Deal” which accomplished nothing but making our lives more miserable, and so much more.

Trump was once kicked off Twitter and has been reluctant to fully return even after Elon Musk bought the site, renamed it “X,” and turned it into a free speech mecca instead of the censorious Biden mouthpiece that it had turned into during Joe’s corrupt reign. Trump turned to his own platform, Truth Social, but the president posted this one to X tonight and has already received 24 million views:

It’s going to be the Golden Age of America, he promised:

He hit the ground running. President Trump touted the first 100 hours of his historic second term in a new video highlighting the start of what he has dubbed the “golden age” of America. The 47th commander in chief shared the highlight reel on his social platforms Saturday afternoon, with the two-minute clip showcasing various moments since he was sworn in on Monday as a snippet of his inauguration speech played.  “THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA BEGINS RIGHT!” Trump captioned the video, which praised the president for “the most historic 100 hours in American history.”

It's Happening: The Gambler: Trump Rocks Vegas As He Unexpectedly Shows Up on Casino Floor to Raucous Cheers

CNN Host Beside Herself As Harry Enten Reveals Trump’s Approval Is Up: ‘Really Hard Time Believing This!’

As the video makes clear, he’s been a busy man:

He signed 26 executive orders on Inauguration Day, surpassing the 15 that former President Joe Biden signed on his first day in 2021.  The flurry of executive actions includes revoking 78 of Biden’s orders, withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Accord, forestalling government censorship, safeguarding free speech, forcing government workers to return to their offices in person full-time and implementing a federal hiring freeze.  The president also declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border, restricted refugees and asylum, designated cartels and organized migrant gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, loosened restrictions on ICE deportation raids and deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.  Trump also made good on his campaign pledge to pardon approximately 1,500 individuals convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — and he commuted the sentences of 14 others, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. 

In a nutshell, as the video shows—it’s different this time.

[motivacionyentretenimiento]

Don LaFontaine

Hollywood Video – Don LaFontaine – 1998 – 4K Remaster