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  • David S. Wallens

    Sept. 2, 2008 11:18 a.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html

  • Duke

    Sept. 2, 2008 11:21 a.m. Duke Dork

    Now that's a minor tragedy. My thoughts are with his family.

  • Dr. Hess

    Sept. 2, 2008 11:23 a.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

    Those Geico commercials were the best.

  • wreckerboy

    Sept. 2, 2008 11:24 a.m. wreckerboy SuperDork

    In a world gone mad, Bob Costas walks into a room with his agent and says...

  • therex

    Sept. 2, 2008 12:16 p.m. therex SuperDork

    Why can't someone we DON'T like die for once?

    Damn.

  • captainzib

    Sept. 2, 2008 12:52 p.m. captainzib Reader

    therex wrote:

    Why can't someone we DON'T like die for once?

    Damn.

    The list is long, you'd think the odds are in our favor.

    I saw in interview with LaFontaine once, and he improved one of his classic "In a world..." lines regarding salad. This man made salad serious. He was one of those guys that I never knew was funny, but that's cause he was never paid to be funny. You gotta think though, with the job he had, it would be hard to take oneself seriously.

  • Jensenman

    Sept. 3, 2008 5:28 a.m. Jensenman SuperDork

    Yet another great is gone.

    I like how he didn't take himself seriously, he said that if he used that 'In a world...' voice in public, people would most likely call security.

  • Jerry From LA

    Sept. 3, 2008 10:08 a.m. Jerry From LA Reader

    Yeah I'm cross-posting but this is a special circumstance so please let it stick...

    Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg to hear Don's story narrated by himself of course.

    Or hear a montage of Pablo Francisco's hilarious send-ups of Don La Fontaine at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le07X0j_uaY&feature=related

 
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