Don LaFontaine, known as the "King of Voiceovers," died Monday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. LaFontaine's agent, Vanessa Gilbert, tells ET that he passed away following complications from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity, the result of a collapsed lung. The official cause of death has not yet been released.
Over the past 25 years, LaFontaine cemented his position as the "King of Voiceovers." Aside from being the preeminent voice in the movie trailer industry, Don also worked as the voice of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, as well as for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and UPN, in addition to TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network.
By conservative estimates, he voiced hundreds of thousands of television and radio spots, including commercials for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Ford, Budweiser, McDonalds, Coke, and many other corporate sponsors.
He recently parodied himself on a series of national television commercials for Geico. At last count, he has worked on nearly 5000 films, including appearances as the in-show announcer for the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. Based on contracts signed, he has the distinction of being perhaps the single busiest actor in the history of SAG.
A female resident of St. Petersburg, who came to visit the Pskov region of Russia, was attacked by a rabid badger. The sick animal bit the womanÂ’s legs and most likely infected her with a dangerous disease.
Obviously, nothing consequential happened in Russia today.
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You cut the film too soon - Putin came in at the end, in safari gear, and saved everyone by shooting badgers with a dart gun!
These are the average, decent people of Cuba who hardly have two coins to rub together. Let's keep them in our prayers.
HAVANA - Cuba said on Monday more than 90,000 houses were damaged or destroyed when Hurricane Gustav tore through the western province of Pinar del Rio on Saturday with 150 mile per hour (240 km per hour) winds.
Officials and state media said 80 percent of the province, which has about 750,000 residents, was without power after Gustav knocked down 80 high-tension towers with cables that distribute electricity throughout the region. State-run news agency AIN, in a story quoting Cuban vice president Carlos Lage, said 53 percent of the homes in the hardest hit areas were affected, most of them suffering roof damage.
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Fear Not, I say, Hurricane HANNAH MONTANA + maybe EISENHOWER is behind Carl GUSTAV???
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The woman is pathetic. Her wikipedia entry already has the arrest and the RNC convention in the past tense, as if they controlled both space and time. A good thing they don't, or we'd all be spinning off into the black vacuum due to the inexorable laws of physics, which can't be argued with.
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They should arrest her and put her through the system and then release her and delete all evidence she was ever arrested to keep her from getting any mileage out of it. You just know she's waiting for her mugshots to be posted on the internet.
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Wikipedia entry: A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program, where she has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left".
There is a "disenfranchised left?" Hell, the MSM is the voice for the left.
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Well, whoever she is, she must be so excited! This could increase her name recognition beyond market of the underperforming venues willing to hire talentless mouthpieces for the left.
Naseerabad police on Monday arrested seven suspects after the government ordered an investigation into the killing of three girls and two women who were allegedly shot and buried alive around two months ago in Babakot village, 320 kilometres east of Quetta.
According to Dawn News, investigators have exhumed three of the five bodies and sent them for autopsy. The arrested include the fathers of the three girls, a brother of two of the girls, a cousin of one of the girls and two others whose identities have not been disclosed.
According to reports, the five had been buried alive because the three girls had married men of their choice, while the two women had allegedly helped them. "Police have arrested seven suspects, including the brother of two of the girls," provincial police chief Asif Nawaz Warraich told reporters.
Warraich said the brother had confessed to the crime before investigators and said that he had shot and injured his two sisters and another woman - a close relative, who had allegedly helped the girls marry men of their choice - and had later buried them alive.
The two sisters, Fozia and Janat, along with the woman, Fatima, had been buried in the jurisdiction of the Baba Kot Police Station after they had gone to Osta Muhammad, the Jaffarabad district headquarters, to marry men of their choice.
"The federal government is also sending a top police official to Quetta to investigate the murders," said Warraich, adding, "We have no evidence so far which may substantiate media reports about the killing of the five women."
Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik said he had ordered an inquiry into the killings and deputed a top police officer to conduct the investigation. He said he wanted a report within a week, adding, "We want facts. This isn't a European society. We're a different society, but violence against women cannot be tolerated either in the name of culture or religion."
Rights groups, including the Women's Action Forum, have demanded immediate action. "Are Pakistani women not human beings? Or are they not considered citizens, deserving equal protection under the constitution and law?" asked the group, adding, "The government needs to provide immediate answers and to take urgent action."
More than 4,000 people, mostly women, have been killed in the rural areas of Pakistan in recent years in the name of family honour. In 2005, former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf signed a bill into law, introducing the death penalty for honour killings.
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Dying in the name of honor is not a deterrent to these men, so the death penality will not stop their monstrous murders. How about shame? Suppose that the penality was to be made an eunich. The parts removed could be fed to pigs. Then, train German shepards to rape these men. I'm sure that could be done. Then return them to their own villages, naked. would that help?
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Because they cannot speak for themselves, I felt obliged to say that undertaking such a task is beneath the dignity of man's best friend.
After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'
One week later, ' The Express News,' a local newspaper in Leesburg, Virginia reported the following:
'After digging as deep as 30 yards in corn fields near Purcellville, Bubba Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Virginia had already gone wireless.'
Here's yer monthly dose of arts n' culture, ya heathens...
A marionette troupe from Islamic Republic of Iran is scheduled to attend Bulgaria's five-day Plovdiv International Puppet Theatre Festival, beginning on September 3rd. According to Public Relations Office of the Culture and Islamic Communications Organization (CICO) fax to IRNA Head Office, the festival that would be held at Bulgaria's Plovdiv City is this year titled "Two is Company, Three is a Crowd" from September 3 to 7.
The other troupe's attending this year's festival are from Russia, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Spain.
Bulgaria's Culture Ministry has commissioned that country's State Center of Puppet Theater, affiliated to Plovdiv Municipality to sponsor this year's festival. According to the report, the foreign and Bulgarian troupes are scheduled to present sixteen works at this year's festival altogether.
The name of the modern piece that will be presented by the Iranian troupe is "I had a dream in which pieces of moon were being separated from it like feathers", that will be screened at 9 pm, September 4th, at Plovdiv Puppet Shows Hall.
Plovdiv has been the host of this international artistic festival every year ever since 1958 for a half century.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Naseerabad police on Monday arrested seven suspects after the government ordered an investigation into the killing of three girls and two women who were allegedly shot and buried alive around two months ago in Babakot village, 320 kilometres east of Quetta.
