Alan Rickman wasn't on that list. That list is dead to me.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Melpomene - May 18, 2005 9:42:19 am PDT #2970 of 10002
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'
beathen - May 18, 2005 9:47:45 am PDT #2971 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
OMG, I can't believe I didn't think of that! He should be near the top with James Earl Jones.
Mr. Broom - May 18, 2005 9:50:24 am PDT #2972 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
So for X3 we've got Vinnie Jones playing Juggernaut, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, and Maggie Grace as a third Kitty Pryde in as many films, almost certain to get a real role this go 'round. Discuss?
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 9:51:37 am PDT #2973 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
26. Peter Lorre - Cinema's first truly menacing voice, the German Lorre sounds more like a snake than a man.
That's probably one of the better descriptions of his voice I've seen. Only Lorre could have me memorize his passionate defense of his compulsion to kill in the original German, which I don't even speak.
shrift - May 18, 2005 10:15:50 am PDT #2974 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There's a song that's being played a lot now called LIttle Sister (I think)
That's probably "Little Sister" by Queens of the Stone Age, off Lullabies to Paralyze. Er, which is probably more information than you needed, but there you go.
Beverly - May 18, 2005 10:25:11 am PDT #2975 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yes, "turn to page three hundred and ninety-four" neeeeeds to be on that list. Also? Roscoe Lee Browne.
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 10:38:15 am PDT #2976 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If they're looking for distinctive voices, why didn't they mention Mae West? No one else has ever sounded like her, and I have a personal fondness for her since she was the first celebrity I learned how to imitate when I was still in elementary school. Did a good enough job with the imitation that I was able to use it in an assignment for my drama class in junior high (had the teacher rolling, even if the rather lame double entendres were flying over my classmates' heads).
§ ita § - May 18, 2005 10:48:40 am PDT #2977 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've thought more about Clint Eastwood. Somehow, he's wrapped movies up in his voice. Not just the movie he's in, but Movies. Also, America. JEJ is a talented actor with a sex-on-sticks voice, but the voice itself doesn't say as many consistent things to me across all his roles (and more power to him for it, really).
Mae West's omission is grave.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 18, 2005 10:58:15 am PDT #2978 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
As is that of Alec Guiness and John Rhys Davies.
Katharine Hepburn - That quivering lilt is inimitable, not even by Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose Aviator imitation strikes us as false and creepy.
Personally, I thought Blanchett did as good a job with her imitation as anyone not named Kate Mulgrew could have done. But I have to agree that Hepburn was a must-have on the list.
23. Scarlett Johanssen - Scarlett, we love you. You know we love you. So let's stop this messing around and just get together already. We'll let you order dinner for the both of us.
This is the joke entry, right? The one they threw in just to make sure we were reading?
I'd have put James Earl Jones ahead of Welles, and both ahead of Eastwood. Probably Lauren Bacall too, as she gets my vote for female voice over West, Turner, and Davis.
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 11:01:40 am PDT #2979 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Probably Lauren Bacall too, as she gets my vote for female voice over West, Turner, and Davis.
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow." Sex-ay.