The Best and Worst 'Fifty Shades' Audio Narrators
Whose voice should narrate a ridiculously successful erotic novel, and whose voice would creep us out?
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Whose voice should narrate a ridiculously successful erotic novel, and whose voice would creep us out?
One key takeaway from last month's New York Times Magazine profile of Samuel L. Jackson was that he puts his all into even unimportant roles, but a Tuesday story about a lawsuit over one of his movies shows even the great actor sometimes phones it in.
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