美国国家公共电台 NPR Legendary Voice Actor Alan Bleviss Dies At 76
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Now we're going to remember a man who set a standard for movie trailers and commercials. His name was Alan Bleviss.
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ALAN BLEVISS: "Sex, Lies And Videotape."
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A. BLEVISS: "Scarface" - for one brief moment, the world was his.
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A. BLEVISS: Bad time, good time - "Ragtime 1."
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:
His voice was in big demand starting in the 1970s and '80s.
GARY HOCHBERG: When casting directors or copywriters would call, they would say, I want a voice like Alan Bleviss.
MCEVERS: Gary Hochberg is a former talent agent who booked Alan Bleviss for ads, including this very lucrative 2 gig.
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A. BLEVISS: Aleve - all-day strong all day long.
SHAPIRO: He was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1941 the son of a successful businessman. When Alan Bleviss went to college, he lied to his father, saying he was studying law. He was actually acting 3, and his father never forgave him.
MCEVERS: After school, he moved to the U.S. to New York City. That's where he got his first paid voiceover job. It was for Canada Dry ginger 4 ale. More commercials followed, and eventually he was voicing Hollywood movie trailers. His kids loved it.
SARAH BLEVISS: I always thought he had this really beautiful, strong, commanding voice.
MCEVERS: That's his daughter Sarah Bleviss. Her sister, Lisa, says they always got a kick out of hearing his work.
LISA BLEVISS: When I was a young child, I frequently would be sitting in the movie theaters with friends, and we would hear a movie trailer. It would come on, and I would whisper to my friends, that's my dad.
SHAPIRO: When he reached the height of his career in the late-'80s, he began to suffer from a nerve disorder 5 which temporarily paralyzed him and left him without a voice. His daughters say therapy with a former Israeli drill sergeant 6 helped him regain 7 his voice.
MCEVERS: That's who he was, they say - a strong guy that matched his strong voice. Alan Bleviss died on December 30 from cancer. He was 76.
- The most popular music back then was called ragtime.那时最流行的音乐叫拉格泰姆音乐。
- African-American piano player Scott Joplin wrote many ragtime songs.非裔美国钢琴家ScottJoplin写了许多拉格泰姆歌曲。
- He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
- It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- There is no ginger in the young man.这个年轻人没有精神。
- Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.生姜吃到嘴里总是辣的。
- When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
- It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
- His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
- How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？