Massimo Power
09-02-2008, 05:47 PM
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http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_10363774 (http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_10363774)
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Don LaFontaine, the ominous voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
LaFontaine, best known for using the catch-phrase "In a world where...," died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Kevin Motley, his agent at TGMD Talent Agency said. He declined to confirm the cause of death.
The announcer got his break in 1965, when he stepped in to do narration for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s "Gunfighters of Casa Grande," the Associated Press reported. LaFontaine went on to make more than 5,000 trailers during a 33-year career working with movie and television studios, AP said.
LaFontaine explained his use of the catch-phrase in an interview last year with AP.
"We have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to," he told AP. "That's very easily done by saying, 'In a world where ... violence rules.' 'In a world where ... men are slaves and women are the conquerors.' You very rapidly set the scene."
LaFontaine is survived by his wife, the singer and actress Nita Whitaker, and three daughters, AP reported.
RIP...
http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_10363774 (http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_10363774)
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Don LaFontaine, the ominous voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
LaFontaine, best known for using the catch-phrase "In a world where...," died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Kevin Motley, his agent at TGMD Talent Agency said. He declined to confirm the cause of death.
The announcer got his break in 1965, when he stepped in to do narration for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s "Gunfighters of Casa Grande," the Associated Press reported. LaFontaine went on to make more than 5,000 trailers during a 33-year career working with movie and television studios, AP said.
LaFontaine explained his use of the catch-phrase in an interview last year with AP.
"We have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to," he told AP. "That's very easily done by saying, 'In a world where ... violence rules.' 'In a world where ... men are slaves and women are the conquerors.' You very rapidly set the scene."
LaFontaine is survived by his wife, the singer and actress Nita Whitaker, and three daughters, AP reported.
RIP...