The Perfect Narrator for Y2K

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We need some one to narrate the rollover. I vote for Jack Nicholson in the roll of the Joker!

-- curtis schalek (schale1@ibm.net), March 22, 1999

Answers

Unfortunately, the best narrator for the Rollover is not available: the late John Facenda, the original "Voice of Doom" for NFL Films.

"The clock ticks forward in its inexorable march, there on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field..."

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), March 22, 1999.


If only Vincent Price were alive.

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), March 22, 1999.

You are all forgetting that "man for all seasons," and last I heard, he's still alive and working: Walter Cronkite.

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), March 22, 1999.

The Godfather. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), March 22, 1999.

You talking Marlon Brando there Sysman, or Uncle Walter?

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), March 22, 1999.


How about Orson Welles? (known for his fictional radio broadcast of the invasion of New Jersey by men from Mars.)

With a January 2, 2000 follow up summary by Steven King.

But you can't beat Jack Nicholson's character in the "Shining" by Steven King either.

--So many questions, so little time.

-- Carol (cajun@bayou.com), March 22, 1999.


How about Al Gore. The "man who invented the internet" is the perfect spokesman for the government's (failing) efforts to fix Y2K.

-- Incredulous (ytt000@aol.com), March 22, 1999.

It will, as always, be Dick Clark.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), March 22, 1999.

I nominate Pee Wee Herman for the role of Koskinen.

-- Puddintame (dit@dot.com), March 22, 1999.

Thank you....Thank you very much.

-- PNG just (posing@stheking.com), March 22, 1999.


that guy that say's, once again, here's art!

-- ed (edrider007@aol.com), March 22, 1999.

How about Daffy Duck!?

-- EYE ON Y2K (bugscaresme@mellinium.com), March 22, 1999.

How about "the voice" that did the play by play of the famous Hindenburg arrival.

-- john (jbhager@webtv.net), March 23, 1999.

Gotta be Chuck Heston.

There are about 4 ways in which that can be viewed.

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), March 23, 1999.


Guess it might help to make the point if I listed the ways.

Heston - as Moses, leading his people through the wilderness

Heston - as pres of the NRA

Heston - as a NON politican

Heston - as the deliver of one of the best speaches in the last 30 years. See older threads.

There may be other ways.

oh yeah, and he's a dam good narrator too....

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), March 23, 1999.



James Earl Jones, aka Darth Vader. Leonard Cohen. Mean Jean Oakland - "Ooooh My!" Kenneth Williams, i don't know why. Captain Piquard.

-- humpty (no.6@thevillage.com), March 23, 1999.

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