All Epcot, All the Time (aka Has Disney given up on SSE?)

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Mr.EPCOT said:
I think that wouldn't be too big of a deal, as anyone who would know that those narrations are there to choose from (presuming that it would be a hidden easter egg) would more or less know what changes the scenes have gone through over the years.
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The PC room narration would still work quite well...and Job's would just need a but of plussing.:lol:
 
ChrisFL

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BTW, Vic Perrin didn't do the original narration, from Marty Sklar himself recently on an article posted at the Hub, the real narrator was Larry Dobkins
 
Captain Chaos

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So odd to think of it like that.:eek: Who is Larry Dobkins anyway?
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From that ever resourceful website Wikipedia:

Lawrence Dobkin (16 September 1919, New York City – 28 October 2002, Los Angeles, California) was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.

Dobkin was a prolific performer during the Golden Age of Radio. His voice was used to narrate the classic western Broken Arrow (1950) and The Robe (1953). His film performances include Never Fear (1949), Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and North by Northwest (1959). He announced the landmark television series Naked City (1958–1963), closing each episode with the statement, "There are eight million stories in the naked city, and this has been one of them."[1]

A former child actor, Dobkin began working in radio to pay for his studies at the Yale University School of Drama. He understudied on Broadway before serving with a radio propaganda unit of the Air Force during World War II. When he returned to network radio he was one of five actors who played the detective Ellery Queen. In The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–1951), Dobkin played detective Archie Goodwin opposite Sydney Greenstreet's Nero Wolfe.

While playing Louie, The Saint's cab-driving sidekick on NBC radio in 1951, he was asked to step into the lead role of Simon Templar to replace Tom Conway for a single episode — making Dobkin one of the few actors to portray Leslie Charteris' literary creation.[2]

His other radio work included Escape (1947–1954), Gunsmoke (1952–1961) and the anthology series Lux Radio Theater. "The few of us who are left," Dobkin said of his radio days not long before he died, "keep telling each other that we never had it so good."[3]

Continuing to work as a voice actor throughout his career, Dobkin contributed to the video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999).

Dobkin began a prolific career in television in 1946, having worked as a actor, narrator and director. In the 1957-1958 television season, he played a director on the CBS sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve, starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino as fictitious married actors residing in Beverly Hills, California. In 1960, he appeared as Kurt Reynolds in "So Dim the Light" of the CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

Often otherwise cast as the villain, Dobkin portrayed gangster Dutch Schultz on ABC's The Untouchables and a mass murderer in the 1972 pilot for ABC's The Streets of San Francisco, starring Karl Malden. [4] He received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work in the CBS Playhouse program, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1967). In 1991 Dobkin appeared on a episode of the TV series Night Court as State Supreme Court Justice Welch.

As writer, Dobkin created the character of Grizzly Adams for the 1974 film and the 1977–1978 NBC series. He began directing for television in 1960, and his work in this area included the pilot and episodes of The Munsters (1964) and 16 episodes of The Waltons (1972–1981).

Dobkin's notable supporting film roles include Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Julius Caesar (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Defiant Ones (1958) and Patton (1970). In an uncredited performance in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Dobkin has a memorable line as an intelligence official who remarks on the plight of the hapless protagonist, on the run for murder after being mistaken for a person who doesn't exist: "It's so horribly sad. Why is it I feel like laughing?"

On June 24, 1962, he married actress Joanna Barnes; they had no children, but he had one daughter by his first wife. Dobkin married actress Anne Collings in 1970 and had three children. His identical-twin daughters followed him into the business — Kristy Dobkin[5] as a writer, and Kaela Dobkin[6] as an actress.

He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.
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Providing this is the same Larry Dobkins...
 
Captain Chaos

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EPCOT Explorer said:
:fork::fork::fork:

No one insults Mr. Sklar!:fork::lol::lol:

;)
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I just did.. What's Marty going to do about it? LOL

Actually, of all the letters I had written to Disney, of all the executives, VPs, Eisner, and Iger I wrote expressing concerns and frustrations, Marty Sklar was the only one who actually responded... Ok, so he probably had a canned letter ready to go on the computer, and his secretary probably mailed it out, but, still, he had a response sent back... he at least acknowledged a Disney guest and fan... The others probably filed the letters under G (for garbage)...
 
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dxer07002 said:
I just did.. What's Marty going to do about it? LOL

Actually, of all the letters I had written to Disney, of all the executives, VPs, Eisner, and Iger I wrote expressing concerns and frustrations, Marty Sklar was the only one who actually responded... Ok, so he probably had a canned letter ready to go on the computer, and his secretary probably mailed it out, but, still, he had a response sent back... he at least acknowledged a Disney guest and fan... The others probably filed the letters under G (for garbage)...
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WOW, really? What's his addy...I would love a letter from him:lol:
 
HMF

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EPCOT Explorer said:
He's still Marty (the EPCOT Creating ) Sklar.:D
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I know that' but he sold out to Eisner on things like DCA. He sent a letter to the Disney fan community using half-truths to defend the changes to IASW. Now he is saying that D23 is not a money-making scheme. I respect Marty Sklar for what he has done in the past. I just think that he has lost his way in recent years.
 
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HMF said:
I know that' but he sold out to Eisner on things like DCA. He sent a letter to the Disney fan community using half-truths to defend the changes to IASW. Now he is saying that D23 is not a money-making scheme. I respect Marty Sklar for what he has done in the past. I just think that he has lost his way in recent years.
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You think HE did all that? Heck no...He was prolly told to. The fans love him. :)lookaroun:eek:) Notice where he was on Oct 1 2007...;):wave:
 
HMF

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You think HE did all that? Heck no...He was prolly told to. The fans love him. :)lookaroun:eek:) Notice where he was on Oct 1 2007...;):wave:
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He approved it. As for the fans loving him' Many fans were very angry with him for the Small World letter.
 
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HMF said:
He approved it. As for the fans loving him' Many fans were very angry with him for the Small World letter.
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He approved DCA, most likely thinking it would be plussed sooner...almost 9-10 years was not his intentions, I am sure.

IASW...Eh. Once again, I think he was forced. A man like Marty Sklar who one, created EPCOT Center, and two, has been there since the beginning would not do that.:shrug: Just what I have gathered from reading around....Sorry if you don't agree, I'm just posting conjecture.:lol:

What else is new?:lookaroun:wave:
 
SirNim

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dxer07002 said:
I wrote that letter back when he was still the head of Imagineering... I saved it actually... I meant to laminate it, but I haven't yet... I gotta dig it out.. Wonder if the paper started to turn colors yet???
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Put it inside a gigantic golden Versailles-style picture frame! And then on the wall!
 
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