Thursday, June 22, 2006

This Just In...

Stan Freberg to receive a much-deserved award.

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Set the TiVo!

Tonight, Turner Classic Movies has two airings of Billy Wilder Speaks, a 90-minute interview with the great director, edited out of a series of interviews he did for German television. How can that not be worth watching? The interview airs at 5 PM and again at 8:30 on my satellite.

• Posted at 9:43 AM · LINK

Today's Video Link

The other day here, I mentioned voice actor Dick Beals and his most famous role...that of Speedy Alka-Seltzer. Our featured video today is a cute commercial starring Mr. Beals as Mr. Alka-Seltzer.

One of the things that impressed me about Dick the few times we worked together was how he manages to be highly versatile even though biology has trapped him in the higher vocal ranges. If you have six minutes, you can listen to or download his voice demo tape from this link. It represents a pretty tiny fraction of the work he's done.

So now here's Speedy Alka-Seltzer...

• Posted at 12:11 AM · LINK