{"id":1413,"date":"2011-02-26T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T03:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T03:50:26","slug":"kc-voice-actor-announces-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"KC voice actor announces the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tom Kane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.planetcomicon.com\/KaneTom-Oscar-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Kane\" width=\"169\" height=\"211\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kansas City&#39;s Tom Kane is not only the voice of Yoda, he&#39;s also the voice of the Academy Awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local voice-over artist <a title=\"Tom Kane's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomkane.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Kane<\/a> is the announcer for tomorrow&#8217;s Academy Awards broadcast. <a title=\"Tom Kane to annouce Oscar broadcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/02\/25\/2683026\/man-of-many-voices-tom-kane-will.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Barnhart<\/a> of the <em>Kansas City Star<\/em> interviewed Kane and other Kansas City area announcers and voice performers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to announcing, Kane is a busy animation voice performer. He is currently the voice of Yoda in <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> and has also had regular roles in <em>The Wild Thornberries, PowerPuff Girls<\/em>, and <em>Foster&#8217;s Home.<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are only two guys who do voice-over work and animation, but I also do promos and commercials and narration,&#8221; Kane told Barnhart. &#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve essentially got four or five voice-over careers running at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kane is also a featured guest at Kansas City&#8217;s <a title=\"Planet Comicon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetcomicon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Comicon<\/a> March 26-27. The event will be held at the Overland Park International Trade Center. Adult weekend passes are available in advance for $15 or at the event for $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local voice-over artist Tom Kane is the announcer for tomorrow&#8217;s Academy Awards broadcast. Aaron Barnhart of the Kansas City Star interviewed Kane and other Kansas City area announcers and voice performers. In addition to announcing, Kane is a busy animation voice performer. He is currently the voice of Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KC voice actor announces the Oscars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,26],"tags":[446,648,672],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-creators","category-news","tag-academy-awards","tag-planet-comicon","tag-tom-kane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}