+1 for Scoob (as usual)Scooby Tuba wrote:My wife had one of the local leading "talking heads" kids in band recently. What a bafoon. The guy thinks he is the news...Dumb as a bucket of rocks...
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Why do you do rocks such a disservice?Scooby Tuba wrote:My wife had one of the local leading "talking heads" kids in band recently. What a bafoon. The guy thinks he is the news...Dumb as a bucket of rocks...
(and I hate to tell you, but here around Philly, talking heads HAVE been the news... )

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Just did it this summer with a guy named Jim Kelly.
Very good Lincoln impersonator. Did an excellent job.
here is a blurb on the concert:
http://www.readingpops.com/july.pdf" target="_blank
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Very good Lincoln impersonator. Did an excellent job.
here is a blurb on the concert:
http://www.readingpops.com/july.pdf" target="_blank
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Best Recorded Narrator: Henry Fonda
Best Live Narration (with my limited exposure), WFMT announcer Carl Grapentine, probably known primarily in the Chicago market.
Absolutely the worst live performance but I really didn't care: Joan Fontaine (yep, the actress from the 30's and 40's, in December of '81 at the Kennedy Center in D.C. Unbelievably overwrought and melodramatic, but then I was on Day Five of my honeymoon with the current Mrs.
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Best Live Narration (with my limited exposure), WFMT announcer Carl Grapentine, probably known primarily in the Chicago market.
Absolutely the worst live performance but I really didn't care: Joan Fontaine (yep, the actress from the 30's and 40's, in December of '81 at the Kennedy Center in D.C. Unbelievably overwrought and melodramatic, but then I was on Day Five of my honeymoon with the current Mrs.

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How about this guy?bloke wrote: I MIGHT actually PAY to see it done were this guy hired to narrate:
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What about tapped out by this guy...


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A posthumous list of great candidates for this job:
1. Peter Lorre
2. Bela Lugosi
3. Charles Laughton
4. Charles Boyer
5. Paul Winchell (as Tigger)
1. Peter Lorre
2. Bela Lugosi
3. Charles Laughton
4. Charles Boyer
5. Paul Winchell (as Tigger)
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Greg's avatar made me think it would be neat to hear leon Redbone do it...
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