Don LaFontaine, RIP
Posted by Mark Athitakis on Sep. 2, 2008, at 11:28 am
In a world without deep booming voiceovers, in a time when one man’s sonorous intonations will no longer keep us from completely losing it after watching 30 trailers in a row at the theater, what will we do?
Don LaFontaine died of of complications relating to pneumothorax, reports the Post Chronicle. A quick YouTube primer to the man and his work is below:
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Too bad, just after he was dead, thousands of people discovered him. Even me, I had no idea about his life, his career, anything but his voice, his terrific voice, his amazing inflections. Now we discover how fun he was, how much he was into everything we watch on big screen, and now he´s gone.
Up there were u might be, I bet, God is trying to sound like you.
Bye Don…