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31 December 2008 12:12 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Terence Stamp owes an astrologer for his distinctive voice because he would never have taken vocal and breathing lessons if she hadn't told him he was destined to become a great speaker.

The British star admits he spoke very badly as a child and feared he'd never become a fine-voiced actor.

But that all changed when director Federico Fellini's astrologer agreed to read his chart on the set of Histoires Extraordinaires.

Stamp recalls, "She was my interpreter and she told me all kinds of things I didn't know about myself. Patricia, the astrologer, told me I had the moon in Taurus, which means potentially you have a wonderful voice.

"At age 27, I went back to school, gave up marijuana and addicted myself to voice and breathing."

And Stamp quickly had a major test of his speaking skills - when he was asked to narrate the Airborne Symphony for a Leonard Bernstein celebration in London.

He adds, "It was the most frightening thing in the whole world because it had only been done once before by Orson Welles, who played the narrator at Carnegie Hall. It was one performance and Lenny (Bernstein) was in the audience.

"When I stepped up to the microphone, it felt like I was standing on a barrage balloon that was being inflated. It was only after that show that I started getting asked to do voice-overs and read books on tape." »

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5 June 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

To me, TV and movie anthologies are like Lucy holding the football in an old Peanuts cartoon: I know she’s going to pull the ball away and put me on my ass, but I can’t resist them anyway. They’re never wholly satisfying, but there’s always the hope that the next episode or short film will be a gem, and every once in a while, you’re rewarded for slogging through the endless misfires: Think of Joe Dante’s “Homecoming” on Masters Of Horror, Martin Scorsese’s segment in New York Stories, Federico Fellini’s entry in Spirits Of The Dead, or George Miller’s “Nightmare At 20,000 Feet” from Twilight Zone: The Movie. Getting to the good stuff takes patience and perseverance, and oftentimes anthologies never pay off at all or not nearly enough to justify themselves. And yet, when NBC announced a 13-episode summer horror anthology called Fear Itself, »

2 articles from 2008