Narrators

[jethrien]

So I've been doing research on planetarium shows. And I'm incredibly amused by the narrators of the shows that are currently out there. Basically, everyone from Star Trek ever, plus most other actors.

Some folks:

From Star Trek: Patrick Stewart (at least 4 different shows), Roxann Dawon, Avery Brooks, Michael Dorn, Rene Auberjonois, Whoopi Goldberg, John Billingsley, and John de Lancie.
From Star Wars: Mark Hamill (at least twice), Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Jack Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, and James Earl Jones.
From Dr. Who: Tom Baker and David Tennant.
From other geeky media: Hugh Laurie, Terry O'Quinn, Laurence Fishburne, Sigourney Weaver, and Jodie Foster.
Just plain famous: Kevin Bacon, Robert Redford, Judi Dench, Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Walter Cronkite, Geoffrey Rush, Liev Schreiber, Richard Attenborough, Emily Watson, and Fred Rogers.

You just aren't somebody until your voice is carried portentiously over the images of exploding galaxies.

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I now have a new goal in life.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Almost everyone from Star Trek also did a voice on Gargoyles :-P

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Clearly I need a list of what shows to go to. God, I haven't been to a planetarium since I was a wee thing. I remember a Pink Floyd laser light show...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, a lot of them might involve trying to track down a planetarium in Nebraska or something. These are the shows that are available for leasing--doesn't mean that they're being displayed anywhere convenient to here.

(But you know I can get you tickets to one show.)

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

One of the most terrifying, yet closest to the truth (and I know about this!) Planetarium scenes (filmed at the Griffith Observatory - there is a bust of James Dean on the grounds!) I have ever seen -- and it haunts me to this very day, starring the incredibly Hawt JAMES DEAN and Natalie Wood... and, of course, the incomparable Ian Wolfe as the lecturer in the Planetarium!!!

Ok, a video of the scene in question:

http://www.myspace.com/video/elisabeth/rebel-without-a-cause-planetarium-scene/30901047

Show you how it's done! Patrick Stewart...