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The recent resurgence started with the swinging "Audi Elvis" and was kicked into this new millennium by the Nike World Cup soccer advert, which then helped Elvis hit Number One in the charts. One of the very best was the recent BBC Radio 2 advert featuring Elvis introducing his band of Superstars. Let's also not forget the excellent Lipton's tea claymation Elvis! With our special thanks to John Pietz, EIN presents sixteen TV adverts featuring Elvis. Not only that, but this week EIN's You. Tube selection has now expanded to four indexed pages. With our selection of well over two hundred Elvis videos what are you waiting for? As EIN always says "Catch them all before the Internet police take them away!" ('EIN's Best Of Elvis on You. Tube', Source: EIN/John Pietz)Graceland lit up for Winter: The Graceland Christmas lights were turned on the evening of November 2. Looking extremely picturesque, the live webcam images can be checked out via the Graceland website. Their Elvis Shop is also running a "1. Days of Elvis holiday promotion" which runs through to December 1. Click here for more info and images (News, Source: EIN) Nixon - Elvis internal Correspondence Released: The National Archives today released 1. Nixon presidency, none of it apparently earth- shaking but some of it mildly interesting. One of the more amusing letters was from Nixon aide Egil Krough Jr., thanking a friend for helping secure a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge for Elvis following his 1. Oval Office meeting with the president. We meet many fascinating creatures in this business," Krough wrote, "but I think that meeting between the president and Elvis Presley was. Presley pledged his support to the president in the war on drugs, only to die a few years later of a heart attack brought on by years of prescription drug abuse. Frank Sinatra also became a Nixon buddy, but early in Nixon's presidency, his staff debated whether it was appropriate to have Sinatra sing at the White House."I am sure that many of our friends in the entertainment field would think it wrong to have a former anti- Nixon person entertain at the White House," presidential aide Dwight Chapin wrote in a 1. But Sinatra did perform, and he was soon signing his hand- written notes to the president, "Affectionately, Francis," while Nixon, ever the stiff, signed a photo of the two, "Richard Nixon." (News, Source: EIN/MSNBC)Thursday 2. November 2. 00. 7Joanne Kelly talks to EIN: This photograph will bring back a lot of memories for many long time fans. In 1. 95. 6- 5. 7 Elvis helped promote polio vaccinations for the March of Dimes (MOD). He was photographed with the organisation's poster girl, Joanne Wilson, and also having his polio vaccination. Subsequently, Elvis' "Love Me Tender" and an interview were featured on the 1. LP, Remember Me! March of Dimes 1. Galaxy of Stars. The LP is now a rare collector's item. But whatever happened to the little girl who was lucky enough to meet and kiss Elvis? Well EIN has tracked her down and we recently had the pleasure of talking to Joanne Wilson (married name Kelly) in a very entertaining and informative interview. Joanne opens up about her exciting time as the MOD poster girl meeting not only Elvis, but many other big name celebrities and tells us what she is doing in 2. Interviews: Source: EIN)Two Elvis auctions ending soon: Lelands have ten exclusive Elvis items up for auction which ends tomorrow. Lead items are Elvis' jacket from the movie King Creole (right) for $2. Harley Davidson motorbike for auction at around $8,0. Some of Elvis' own notated books are also featured, as well as interestingly a guitar "purported to have been used by Elvis" on the Joe Franklin TV show from WABC New York in 1. EIN notes that Joe Franklin has never provided any proof photographic or otherwise that Elvis ever appeared on his show. Click here for more auction info. Christies in New York also have a rare signed Eko acoustic guitar signed by Elvis up for auction for around $1. Go here for Christies info and photo of Elvis' ball- point signature on the guitar. News, Source: EIN) Breaking down Presley and Beatlemania: In a very stimulating commentary, likethebike presents his case for Presleymania and Beatlemania. EIN recommends this very thoughtful and cogent commentary to all readers. With themes including sexual tension, civil rights, backlash by society's cultural arbiters, r& b integration and realising the American dream.... Spotlight/Comment, Source: likethebike/FECC) Graceland Shines Like Never Before: Elvis Presley's Graceland kicked off the holiday season Nov. Elvis' traditional lights and displaying decorations on the mansion property. The interior of Graceland has been decorated as well, and includes Presley family Christmas artifacts on display for the first time, according to a press release. Also new for this year is a special display featuring gifts and Christmas cards from fans,as well as Christmas cards sent to Elvis by other celebrities. Among the gifts on display will be a set of bongo drums Priscilla Presley gave to Elvis, a portable TV Elvis gave to his mother in 1. Lisa Marie from Santa, including a giant stuffed animal, chalkboard, makeup table and tricycle. For those who can't make the trip to Memphis in person, Graceland's holiday display can be seen via the live "Graceland. Cam" at www. elvis. The special exhibit, holiday lights and decorations will be on display from Nov. Presley birthday celebration ending on Jan. News, Source: EPE/Suzanne, Live. News Daily Blog) Elvis featured in wildlife magazine: A very nice article in the Sep- Oct edition of the Dutch “Wildlife Magzine”. With one black and white and three full colour pictures. It gives readers a very positive view on the room where Elvis recorded his famous “Jungle Room Sessions”.(News, Source: EP Gold/Elvis News)Reverend Frank Smith dies: Rev. Frank Smith, the man who pastored the Assembly of God church in East Tupelo when Elvis, Vernon and Gladys lived here, died Sunday morning approximately 9: 0. He had been to breakfast and returned to his room. When the nurses came to check on him later, he was gone, sitting in his recliner. Funeral arrangements are tenative; most likely Tuesday night for visitation; Wednesday for the funeral. Pegues Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. News, Source: Amber Smith/EP Gold) Quantum physicist predicts parallel universe where Elvis still rocking!: The only known recordings of a brilliant physicist who predicted the existence of parallel universes have been found in the basement of his rock star son's flat. The tapes document how Hugh Everett, a quantum physicist, developed his idea at the age of 2. Princeton University in 1. Everett's theory gave rise to the concept of a multitude of universes, or a "multiverse", where all life's possibilities play out. It means that somewhere Elvis is still rocking, the Nazis won the second world war and England qualified for Euro 2. The recordings are believed to have been made in 1. Everett's parallel worlds theory was resurrected after being shunned for two decades. The tapes were thought lost after his death at the age of 5. They were found during the making of a TV documentary in which Mark Everett, the physicist's son and lead singer of the US band Eels, attempts to understand the work that consumed his father. The programme, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, airs on BBC4 this evening. The tapes record a conversation between Everett and Charles Misner, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. In the background, Mark can be heard playing the drums. Everett talks of how his inspiration came after talking about the ridiculous consequences of quantum theory over a few glasses of sherry with Misner and Aage Petersen, an assistant of the Nobel prize- winning physicist Niels Bohr. Everett completed a draft paper describing the idea in 1. On seeing it, his supervisor, John Wheeler, said: "I am frankly bashful about showing it to Bohr in its present form, valuable and important as I consider it to be, because of parts subject to mystical misinterpretations by too many unskilled readers."Everett's work tackled one of the most puzzling mysteries to emerge from the field of quantum mechanics. One consequence of the theory is that tiny particles such as electrons can behave in a curious way that allows them to be in two places at once. As Bohr was to comment: "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."In the 5. Bohr, was that weird quantum behaviour vanishes as soon as the object is measured. But Everett thought differently. His calculations showed that whenever quantum mechanics said a particle was in two places at once, the universe divides. In one universe the particle appears in one place, while in a second it appears in the other. The implications were apparently so alarmingly counter- intuitive that Everett's ideas were largely ignored, notably by Bohr. Speaking to New Scientist magazine, Mark Everett said the rejection had had a devastating effect on his father. But recently, the theory has been accepted by many scientists as profoundly important. News, Source: Ian Sample, The Guardian) The nun who shared Elvis' crib: Her laugh is quick and hearty, audibly framing eyes dancing with bemusement behind wire- rimmed glasses. Of course she'll talk about the Elvis connection, she says. It makes for a fun story. And people always get a kick out it. Vocal Evolution - TV Tropes. Space Ghost: Man, Zorak, what was with your voice back then? Zorak: Yeah, well, what's up with your voice? Space Ghost Coast to Coast (revisiting their first meeting)note This is actually a parody of this trope. Here, they are voiced by soundalikes. Actors are only human, which includes voice actors. Voice actors don't have to worry about makeup or costumes, so it can be easy to assume that their job is much easier than that of actors visible on the screen. It may or may not be, but the unique challenge they face is breathing life into an animated character with their voice alone and no other props. And like with new artists, it can take novice voice actors some time to grow into their character and develop distinctive voices for them. On the flip side, lending one's voice to a show over multiple months or years can cause a voice actor to get lazy and begin slacking off on the nuances of their character's voice, or even age to the point where they find it impossible to sustain the original voice and have to make compromises. This decline in quality can also manifest itself in shows with large casts when all characters' voices begin to sound the same or monotonous. This doesn't tend to lead to lost jobs, because a decline in timbre quality is often less noticeable than a decline in acting or art quality. With child voice actors, whether a fan will like it or not, this is going to happen when they hit puberty, although some shows switch into The Other Darrin at that point. This trope can also apply to any other medium requiring the voice for varied reasons: live- action actors may change a character's voice or just downgrade to their original voice as they grow more comfortable (or complacent) with the character; singers may change their singing styles to achieve a different artistic style; and so on. Other factors in this trope may include age (whether prepubescent actors dealing with the voice changes inherent in puberty, or more mature actors changing with increasing age) and health (vocal cord injury/strain, smoking, etc.). In cases involving Talking to Himself, this can sometimes lead to characters sounding more or less like each other. Contrast with The Other Darrin, in which the entire actor is replaced (or, in the case of voiceover work, the voice change is because an actor was replaced, not because the actor changed the voice). Anime & Manga Pokémon. The English dub has shades of this, where Ash's voice (actress) is pretty rough and uneven in the first couple episodes. She finds the right balance afterwards.. Orange Islands and Johto. However, toward the end of Veronica Taylor's tenure as Ash, her voice for him had become slightly lower as it could have something to do with the fact that following the Johto arc, she was cast as the new female lead and had to distinguish Ash from May by lowering her voice again. The voice director told Veronica Taylor to play Ash with a deep voice in the first few episodes because that's how he thought ten- year old boys sounded. Taylor brought in a sound clip of her ten- year old nephew to prove him wrong, and Ash's voice was allowed to go much higher. Curiously, in the Latin- American Spanish dub Ash's male voice actor (Gabriel Ramos, now a VJ for Latin American MTV) started dubbing him when he was around 1. Now that Gabriel's in his early to mid 2. Advanced Battle you can't help but noticing that Ash's voice was gotten rougher with time. Eric Stuart's James voice gradually raised in pitch and took on a more goofy tone as the show went on. José Antonio "Pepe" Macías, James' Latin American Spanish voice, changed similarly. He chose a more comedic, nasal and somewhat childish tone (mixed with a high dose of Mexican- Spanish slang words), though. It still worked very well. Any work of Nozomu Sasaki. A good point of comparison is his work as Hathaway Noa in Char's Counterattack. In the original film his voice was like that of a child, fitting since Hathaway is just 1. By the time he reprised the role for a Gundam EVOLVE short, his voice was so much deeper that it was unrecognisable. The English dub of Digimon Adventure had some voice changes after the earlier episodes, most notably with the kid's In- Training Digimon (Koromon in particular went from having a squeaky voice to sounding more like an eight- year- old boy), and Garurumon (Whose voice became more scratchy and high- pitched half- way through the series). Sadly, we also get a couple cases of de- evolution: Armadillomon had a "geeky" voice as Submarimon, a different flavor of his usual cowboy voice for Digmon, and a grown- up- Armadillomon voice for Ankylomon (his true Champion form.) By season's end, all his Armor/Champion forms sound just alike. The same goes for Zoe, who sounds a bit less kiddy as Kazemon and very adult and confident as Zephyrmon. The distinctions fade and by the end they all sound like Zoe. Revolutionary Girl Utena's dub is likewise pretty stilted in early episodes for any of the more mellow characters, though the speed of improvement is usually tied with how much dialogue is given to particular characters. Keiko in particular was given a very shrill and breathy voice, a holdover from early on when she was a minor character. However during her Crowning Moment of Awesome episode, Mandy Bonhomme came out of her shell some for the big fight and gave her a more controlled, light, and raspy voice with better acting. Then she went right back to her original voice for the very next scene after the fight was over. For some bizarre reason, it actually works! In at least one interview, Mark Gatha, the US voice actor for Mobile Fighter G Gundam' Domon Kasshu, has said that the cast didn't hit their stride until around Episode 2. A major case of an entire studio stepping up in quality is FUNimation. After releasing the professional voice actors from The Ocean Group after the first two seasons of Dragon Ball Z, they began with a rookie cast from Season 3 on. The big problem was the new cast trying to match the old voices, which resulted in varying quality (and a tremendous fan backlash). But over time, most came into their roles and made the characters their own. Christopher Sabat, for instance, gave a much lower and brooding voice for Vegeta compared to Brian Drummond's higher and scratchy voice. The company is now one of the most popular dubbing studios. It's especially noticeable in the Season 3 DVD set of DBZ, where Sabat (Vegeta, Piccolo, et al) and Sonny Strait (Krillin) went back and redubbed many of their lines. A minor example of this trope in the DBKai dub: Chris Ayres' voice for Freeza's first form was rather high- pitched in his first few episodes, but starting when Freeza goes back to his mothership, the pitch drops considerably lower. Linda Young's Freeza voice sounded very womanly in the beginning without much effort given to change her voice. Then she had vocal effects applied for the character's second and third forms, with her final form only having minor effects applied to lover her voice. After the arc was over, the effects were no longer applied and she used a much harsher and raspier voice in flashbacks/reappearances/GT. In the redub of the Namek saga, she used that same voice, and it was enough of a difference for her to redub her own early work in the Ginyu saga/early Freeza saga. For the remastered DVDs, the vocal effects were removed for the third form, and accidentally, in a couple episodes with the final form as well, resulting in this trope. There's also a big difference in quality between the first episodes of One Piece that were dubbed by Funimation for Cartoon Network, and the ones released years later on DVD note Funimation dubbed episodes 1. TV, continuing from where 4. Kids left off, and then dubbed the first two "seasons" for DVD. The voice characterizations are noticeably more subtle and the pitches less static, and the dramatic scenes are much more intense. This is especially the case (along with a lot of other Darrins) with the English dubs of the game Unlimited Adventure note which features the Straw Hats fighting a bunch of old villains that the English- dubbed anime hadn't gotten to yet and the film Episode Of Alabasta note A remake of the Alabasta Arc, which was dubbed by Funimation a while before they dubbed the anime arc it was based on, as the voice actors usually only had brief snippets of their character to dub. Over time, Colleen Clinkenbeard's Luffy has become deeper and more gravely, and the diction of Brina Palencia's Chopper has become more slurred and childlike. When the anime version of the Alabasta arc was dubbed, Barry Yandell used a much more nasally voice for Bon Clay than the soft spoken voice he used in Episode Of Alabasta. The original Japanese version has this at times too. One of the most obvious examples is Mayumi Tanaka originally using a very high pitched voice for Nightmere Luffy in Unlimited Cruise, which was toned down to a slower version of Luffy's normal voice for the anime. Fullmetal Alchemist. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which is a closer adaptation to the manga than the 2. FUNi brought back most of the same VA's - all with noticeably better acting skills - and even the characters whose VA's they changed were better than the original. Take Scar, for instance, voiced by Dameon Clarke in the original and J. Michael Tatum in the remake. Clarke portrayed him with a less gruff, slightly higher voice, while Tatum went for rougher and more masculine, much more fitting of Scar than the former (though 2. Even within the 2. Envy's voice gets more gravelly towards the end of the dub (likely because it took that long for Wendy Powell to fully embrace voicing an agender character). Sabat in particular warrants mentioning for both of aforementioned Dragon Ball and Fullmetal Alchemist.
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