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The Chief Justice for Sir Wilfrid Laurier was also present the day of the unveiling and he spoke very highly of the monument and LaFontaine as he said " It is a grateful joy to be allowed to laud and magnify LaFontaine's imperishable name.

LaFontaine and voice
Tate and four other well known voice artists ( Don LaFontaine, John Leader, Mark Elliot, and Al Chalk ) parodied their unique voiceover styles en route to an awards show in a 1997 short film, 5 Men and a Limo.
Donald Leroy " Don " LaFontaine ( August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008 ) was an American voice actor famous for recording more than 5, 000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers.
According to LaFontaine himself, his voice cracked at the age of 13 in the middle of a sentence, giving him the bass tones that would later bring him much fame and success.
While working on the 1964 western Gunfighters of Casa Grande, LaFontaine had to fill in for an unavailable voice actor in order to have something to present to MGM.
LaFontaine also did other voice work, including as the announcer for the newscasts on WCBS-TV New York, from 2000 to 2001.
One trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy not only spoofs the " In a World Where " theme, but also includes LaFontaine parodying himself when the narrator defines what a trailer is, saying " Trailers also normally employ ( enter Don's voice ) ' A deep voice, that sounds like a seven-foot-tall man, who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood '.” The trailer is voiced by fellow voice-over artist Stephen Fry.
* Los Angeles Times: Don LaFontaine, 68 ; voice of movie trailers
Because many of his trailers have begun with the words " In a world ", there is controversy over whether his voice has immortalized them ( Don LaFontaine claimed to have actually created the catchphrase ).
Douglas's voice briefly appears in the skit 5 Men and a Limo, featuring other notable voiceover recording artists, such as Don LaFontaine, John Leader, Nick Tate, Al Chalk, and Mark Elliot.
Don LaFontaine presents the story as he would voice a movie trailer, and Joan Rivers periodically comments that she can't feel her face.

LaFontaine and movie
While Don LaFontaine filled the category of " The Voice of God " until his death in 2008, Ashton Smith, Howard Parker and Miguel Ferrer provide most of the narration for movie trailers.
Peterson incorporated many of LaFontaine ’ s ideas for the spots and, in 1963, they went into business together producing advertising exclusively for the movie industry.
LaFontaine claimed that it was this company that first came up with many of the famous movie trailer catch phrases, including his own future signature phrase, " in a world ..."
He became the head of Kaleidoscope Films Ltd., a major movie trailer producer before starting his own company, Don LaFontaine Associates, in 1976.
For a time, LaFontaine had a near-monopoly on movie trailer voiceovers.
LaFontaine stated in 2007 that his favorite work in a movie trailer was for the hit biographical film The Elephant Man, though according to a response to the question on his website, he had several trailers which stood out in his mind, and he didn't like to choose one.
Comedian-actress Janeane Garofalo formerly performed " an impression of every movie trailer ever made " with the words, " In a WORLD !…" saying that every movie trailer seems to begin with LaFontaine saying, " In a world …" or " In a town …"
On April 12, 2007, LaFontaine appeared on an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with ousted American Idol finalist Haley Scarnato to provide humorous " movie trailer "- esque commentary, as a spoof of his Geico commercial.
For projectHUMAN ( 2002 ), Dieselboy presented a mix framed as a movie trailer, hiring Don LaFontaine for his intro and outtro.
* Jack Morris ' Life-Parody of movie trailer announcers, such as Don LaFontaine and Hal Douglas

LaFontaine and trailers
Some notable trailers which LaFontaine highlighted in the intro on his official website include: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Shrek, Friday the 13th, Law & Order and Batman Returns.
Because he has recorded so many trailers through the years, he has sometimes been mistaken for Don LaFontaine.

LaFontaine and during
LaFontaine began his junior career with the Verdun Juniors of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ( QMJHL ) during the 1982 – 83 season ).
LaFontaine distinguished himself with a strong performance, scoring two third-period goals during the Islanders ' 5 – 2 loss to the Oilers in the fifth and deciding game of the series.
He later resigned the captaincy during the 1992 – 93 NHL season, in favor of LaFontaine.
" Anderson was also the announcer of America's Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1995 and did the voiceover for the previews of new episodes during the first three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation until he was replaced by Don LaFontaine.

LaFontaine and career
LaFontaine was Born in Boucherville and moved to Montreal to begin his political career.
After MGM bought the spots, LaFontaine began a career as a voiceover artist.
The others were Mike Donnelly and former teammates Jason Dawe and Pat LaFontaine, Biron will have played almost his entire career in the state of New York, except for a brief 2-year stint with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Patrick Michael LaFontaine ( born February 22, 1965 ) is an American former ice hockey center in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) who spent his entire career playing for the league's New York-based teams ; LaFontaine skated for the New York Islanders from 1983 until 1991, the Buffalo Sabres from 1991 until 1997, and the New York Rangers from 1997 until his retirement in 1998, scoring 468 goals and 1, 013 points along the way before his career was ended by concussions.
LaFontaine started his NHL career after representing the United States in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
LaFontaine would have a promising career ahead as one of the team's best players, but he was unable to reverse the Islanders ' gradual slide.
But LaFontaine played his entire career in the state of New York while Donnelly also played for the Los Angeles Kings and Dallas Stars, Biron played for the Philadelphia Flyers and Dawe also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators.
LaFontaine once joked about it, saying " I got to play for three great organizations in my career and never once had to buy new license plates.
In 2000, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society bestowed the Patriot Award on LaFontaine in recognition of his contribution to military morale throughout his career.

LaFontaine and from
I would fain do it, excluding in a rise of Canada from colonial inferiority to international equality, wherein LaFontaine bore so great a part.
Although public sentiment sided with Messier, as he led the team to two first-place regular season finishes and the Stanley Cup, General Manager Neil Smith figured out that he had Gretzky and Pat LaFontaine as top centermen, and he came close to signing Joe Sakic from the Colorado Avalanche At 36 years old, Messier signed with the Vancouver Canucks to a high-priced free agent contract, where he would be reunited with Mike Keenan, who was the Rangers ' head coach in 1994, who would be hired as the Canucks ' general manager and head coach early in the 1997 – 98 season.
LaFontaine often had jobs at a number of different studios each day, and famously hired a driver to take him from studio to studio in order to save time finding parking.
With the advent of ISDN technology, LaFontaine built a recording studio in his Hollywood Hills home and began doing his work from home.
Ten days later, LaFontaine died on September 1, 2008, six days after his 68th birthday, following complications from a pneumothorax.
The episode dedicated his memory and said " To Don LaFontaine 1940-2008 " Fellow voice-over artist and friend John Leader retired from the voice-over business on Sept 1, 2008 upon learning of LaFontaine's death.
After that low output, Islanders management released Trottier from his contract, believing that his best years were behind him and that younger centers such as Pat LaFontaine and Brent Sutter should get his ice time.
Although he was born in St. Louis, LaFontaine grew up in Waterford, Michigan ( his father, a Chrysler executive, moved the family to the Detroit area in 1972 ) and graduated from Waterford Kettering High School.
Pat LaFontaine was selected by the Islanders in the 1st round as the 3rd pick overall in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft with the draft pick they had acquired from the Rockies.
In April 2003, LaFontaine was recognized with the International Humanitarian Award by the Gift of Life Foundation, an organization promoting the cure and treatment of children suffering from heart disease in third world countries.

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