LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.

LaFontaine’s agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, “In a world where…”

He did this sound byte for my website back in March of this year.

http://video.hsus.org/?fr_story=05a4cc52bd83b42070825840fbf20d4bf5c85728&rf=bm

PLEASE do not buy puppies from puppy mills!  These dogs are horribly mistreated, and deserve a better life.  They have no human contact.  They spend 7-10 years in cages, which are cramped and filthy, and they only have wire mesh to walk on.  They rarely have shade, and live in their own waste.  This is only so someone can make the almighty buck.  When a puppy mill breeding dog is taken from their cage after this many years, they are afraid to even walk on grass, because it is unfamiliar to them.  Imagine being in prison all your life, and being made to produce litter after litter.

I implore everyone who reads this to rescue a dog.  DO NOT buy dogs from breeders or pet stores.  They only perpetuate this travesty.  Over two million dogs a year are euthanized, because they were not rescued by a loving family.  If I can touch one person’s heart with this plea, I will sleep better tonight.

When I rescued my dog, he had a broken leg and three cigarette burns on his back.  He is now the most loving dog I could have ever hoped for.  He’s just happy to have a better life.

Please…just think about this.

This is so cool, I have to post it again. Thanks Patti!

For his birthday, little Joseph asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His father
said, ‘Son, we’d give you one, but the mortgage on this house is
$280,000 & your mother just lost her job. There’s no way we can afford
it.’ The next day the father saw little Joseph heading out the front
door with a suitcase. So he asked, ‘Son, where are you going?’ Little
Joseph told him; ‘I was walking past your room last night and heard you
telling mom you were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait
because she was coming too. And I’ll be damned if I’m staying here by
myself with a $280,000 mortgage & no bike!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywgxa5ORyIU

Someone submitted a freebie, and I figured why not vent here……

1. I hate it when they tell me its a FREE whatever. I hate that word in caps, dont know why.

2. My name is James, not Jim. Thanks. I just had to mention that!  =)

That’s all. Thanks for listening…err….reading.

So what do you have to vent about?