There’s a healthy tradition of celebrities doing dramatic readings of pop songs — see Jude Law and Christopher Walken’s rival renditions of “Poker Face,” James Earl Jones covering “Baby,” and William Shatner’s version of “Umbrella” — and those are all well and good, but there’s a slightly different trend we’ve been loving: the dramatic reading of the instructional, declamatory or fictional text. After all, from figuring out how to change a tire to parsing political speeches, everything sounds better when declaimed in Seriou Actor Voice. Click through to see a few of our favorites, and let us know if we’ve missed any of yours in the comments!
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On Sunday there were reports, first appearing in London’s Sunday Times, that the United Nation had appointed Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, as head of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA… the sound an alien might make?). Unfortunately someone seems to have jumped the gun, as Othman has subsequently denied the appointment. To help cope with our disappointment, we thought we’d take a look at 10 Hollywood actors who’d also make fine ambassadors. You know, just in case.
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The trailer for Tim Blake’s Leaves of Grass, otherwise known as the movie where Edward Norton plays a pair of twins, reminds us a bit of My Name Is Earl. That might be because of the heavy-handed use of Southern accents — though the film is set in Oklahoma. Then there’s the fact that it just looks really odd.
Keri Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, and Susan Surandon also star in this comedy, which tells the story of an Ivy League professor (Norton) who returns to his hometown after he learns that his redneck pot-growing brother (also Norton) is dead. But his twin isn’t dead, he’s just in big trouble with the local drug lord (Dreyfuss).
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