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...opened for the legendary Les McCann, that he scored a record contract, and in 1975 he released his debut album, We Got By, featuring his trademark genre-bending style. An unsuspecting world was also introduced to a voice that one critic likened to "a full orchestra in his throat...
DIED As scenes of impending doom flash onscreen, his gravelly voice cuts through the explosive effects and thundering music with the familiar words "In a world where ..." Known as "Thunder Throat," "The Trailer King" or, more generally, "that movie voice-over guy," self-dubbed voice actor Don LaFontaine narrated more than 5,000 movie trailers and other promotions in his nearly 50-year career. Originally an audio engineer and editor, LaFontaine got his start behind the mike because of a scheduling mix-up. Soon he was recording voice-overs full time--as many as 60 a week--and narrating teasers...
...years the graffiti artist known as Banksy has been the art world's Deep Throat: a hugely influential figure whose identity remained shrouded in mystery. Now, like Deep Throat, he has been given a name...
...with one of four different tones, can mean mother, hemp, horse, or scold. “Mama ma ma” can mean “Mother scolded the horse.” The language relies on the intricacies of tone and the movements of the mouth, tongue, and throat rather than only the sounds...
Tens of millions of Americans have quit smoking cigarettes. The benefits of quitting - no matter what your age - are prodigious. Risks of heart disease and stroke plummet. So does the risk of lung cancer, along with cancers of the mouth, throat, bladder, cervix and pancreas. But can the damage from smoking ever be completely undone? Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, explains...