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).
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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Kathy A - May 18, 2005 10:38:15 am PDT #2976 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ 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.
Calli - May 18, 2005 11:09:51 am PDT #2980 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow." Sex-ay.
Oh, yeah. TMC played THaHN over Mother's Day weekend, and I watched it with my folks. I love that movie.
Alicia K - May 18, 2005 11:33:59 am PDT #2981 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
One of Seattle's radio stations has been playing that Queens of the Stone Age song mixed with the SNL "more cowbell" sketch. Pretty funny. Well, the first 10 times, anyway.
DavidS - May 18, 2005 11:58:29 am PDT #2982 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
7. Al Pacino - Hoo-ah! Always over the top, and we wouldn't have him any other way.
Pfft. First of all, Al can be subtle (cf., Godfather movies). Second of all, I hate it when he's a ham. Who the fuck loved him in Smell of a Woman? The most obvious apology Oscar since Butterfield 8.
Also, any voice list without Richard Burton or Alan Rickman is deeply suspect.
Maysa - May 18, 2005 12:39:02 pm PDT #2983 of 10002
Alan Rickman wasn't on that list. That list is dead to me.
Yeah, it's irrevelant without him.
erikaj - May 18, 2005 12:46:12 pm PDT #2984 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes, wrod. And I liked "Scent" but I've grown up, babe. And seen the Godfather, Serpico(duh), and, hell, "And Justice For All." "This whole country's out of order." Andre Braugher? Not on the list either, and he's made some movies now. Rickman's absence is criminal, however. That is the Rickman Appeal.
bon bon - May 18, 2005 12:47:28 pm PDT #2985 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Al can be subtle (cf., Godfather movies).
This is like saying I can be 4'9".