Clinton to do voice-over in remake of "Peter and the Wolf"

FOX Cable | Britt Hume

[Slyfox]

Brit Hume reported that Bill Clinton, Michail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren will do voice work in a production of "Peter and the Wolf". I just caught the tail end of his report. Any comments?

[ewing]

He'll huff and he'll puff..but he won't inhale!

[tomahawk]

Is there nothing this Satanic POS won't poison? Now, he's tarnishing one of my favorite composers, Prokofiev.

[sourcery]

[conservativecorner]

I would imagine all the women he abused would definitely want him to play the part of the WOLF!

[conservativecorner]

ROFLMAO...LOL...LOL!!!!

[Luis Gonzalez]

"My guess is he'll be the wolf."

Peter is what he's known for.

[ex-Texan]

I bet BillyBlowgate will be huffin' and puffin' chasing Sophia around the nearest piano with his shorts in one hand and his trousers in the other.

[polemikos]

Ha Ha - he'll play both parts ;-)

[polemikos]

"My guess is he'll be the wolf."

Peter is what he's known for.

Ha Ha - ya' beat me to it.

[DLfromthedesert]

Yes, but this Peter isn't bent.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I couldn't believe no one had said that yet!

[Luis Gonzalez]

EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

[TatieBug]

Guess HITLARY'S "voice over" performance on the Senate floor today made him jealous! She's just the most shrill person it's impossible to take much of it.

[FreedomCalls]

Mikhail, Bill, Peter and the Wolf

Kevin O'Flynn in Moscow
Wednesday February 5, 2003
The Guardian

Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton are about to follow in the footsteps of Dame Edna Everage, Boris Karloff and David Bowie as they narrate a new recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

The last leader of the Soviet Union will join the former US president in a special performance of Prokofiev's work by the Russian National Orchestra under the command of the Grammy-winning conductor Kent Nagano. The recording will be Mr Gorbachev's English language debut.

"We chose former politicians, who have a great ability to communicate," Nagano said, in an answer that may seem odd to Russians; when in power Mr Gorbachev was derided for his provincial accent and long, indecipherable sentences.

Sophia Loren joins the two former leaders for the performance of Prokofiev's tale and a newly written piece, The Wolf and Peter by the French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus, which tells the tale from wolf's side. "We thought it would be interesting to see the story from the point of view of the wolf," Nagano said. "He's in the forest but the forest is disappearing, urbanisation is cutting the trees away... and we see why the wolf is so desperate."

The new version especially appealed to Mr Gorbachev because of its environmental side. He is donating his fee for the performance to Green Cross International, the environmental organisation he founded in 1993. Mr Clinton is donating his fee to the International Aids Trust, whose advisory committee he chairs with Nelson Mandela.

"The idea was born from the goal of trying to create a recording that would be very stimulating for families and at the same time for connoisseurs," said Nagano, who will join Mr Gorbachev next Monday to record his narration in English. Loren and Clinton recorded their narration last December in Geneva.

Peter and the Wolf has been used for years in schools as a simple way to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra. The new recording will be released later this year.

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003

[Slyfox]

Peter AND the Wolf. Maybe he'll play both parts.

[MinuteGal]

You missed the best part of the announcement on Fox. The narrative has been re-written to tell the tale from the wolf's point of view.

I'm sure this will please the environmentalists and animal-rights morons no end. Who better to appear in this production but the Clintoon?

They should now re-title it "PETA and the Wolf".

Leni

[Slyfox]

I couldn't find the article and it didn't look like anyone had posted it yet. Thanks.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I think he'll be the peter in the wolf.