Talk:Don LaFontaine
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[edit] First use of "in a world..."
Does anyone know what film (or films) started the whole "in a world..." business? I'm sure plenty of people looking up LaFontaine would want to know this; I sure don't know. Anybody know? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Priceyeah (talk • contribs).
- That's a good question, I'd like to know that myself. The first time I became concsiously aware of it is when Janeane Garafalo pointed it out in the late 1990s or so, and all the parodies seemed to come after that. But I don't know where the convention itself first started. MrBook 18:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why is there a picture of Don Messick?
Someone needs to change this picture.
Yeah that guy is just on google but hes nothing like the guy from the geico commercial (Googleyii 02:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC))
[edit] Hitch-Hiker's trailer
I think the 'cigarettes' portion of the Hitch-Hiker's trailer was done by a CBC Radio One announcer who is only known as 'The Voice'. He does the intro for the 9 AM weekday show called The Current.
[edit] voice of god weapon
I got here trying to find details on the voice of god weapon. Mathiastck 23:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, you got to the wrong place. Try this Washington Post article or the XADS company site.--Dhartung | Talk 01:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Hopiakuta 16:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] He earns $1.8 billion a year??
"LaFontaine voices about sixty promo sessions a week; he demands $600,000 per 30 second promo" can anyone provide a source for this? There is no way this is true.
- Yeah, that's ridiculous. I couldn't find anything asserting that he'd earned that much for any single job, let alone all of them. Numerous sources do confirm he's a multi-millionaire and earns "six figures" (some) "more than $1 million" (others). --Dhartung | Talk 11:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- According to workingworld.com:
- "Don La Fontaine, acknowledged as the 'King of promos and trailers,' is reported to have earned $6,000,000 in 1998--for talking."
- Unfortunately, the information is only available when you do a google search for "Don LaFontaine annual income workingworld.com", and the information is strangely unavailable even when you click on "cached". --JoshLMeyer 22:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well, that's sort of a vague way to source such an extreme claim. I've added a cite to a major media outlet (E!online) for a "six figure salary" claim, which really should be sufficient -- I don't think we need to track his annual salary ups and downs.
- P.S. you don't need to use HTML to format.--Dhartung | Talk 00:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fix the first Current Work paragraph
This paragraph contains a trainwreck of a run-on sentence and after reading it 4 times, I still don't know what in the hell it is about. Could someone please fix this?--Senna27 22:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Listerine commercial
Is it LaFontaine who appears in a Listerine commercial "at a sink..."? G33K 18:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, that's not him. That actor is doing a very good parody of LaFontaine, though. The Listerine actor also appears as the boss in a series of recent Kellogg's Cinnamon Crunch commercials (you know, the one which has the young guy eating a bowl of cereal while the boss and his immediate underling talk). -- Jalabi99 11:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
- For those interested: Interview with Don LaFontaine ~Kylu (u|t) 22:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
