Word: accent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking with a Jamaican accent, Colin Ferguson said he was from Louisiana and needed a room. The India-born general manager of the Royal Motel in Long Beach, California, looked at his would-be guest, a bulky black man who admitted to being unemployed, and said, "O.K., but if you're not good I won't let you stay here." "But," Nick Bhakta recalls, "he was good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days...
...interview over brunch. Wearing dark black sunglasses throughout, Jones, with concealed pupils, looks more like a character from the Lil' Orphan Annie comic strip than one of his menacing and intimidating characters. A native Texan, Jones charms with his Southwestern courtesies and genuinely ingratiating accent. He is impeccably dressed and groomed; his hair is cut close and his skin is aglow. Sitting at the table eating his Eggs Benedict and drinking his milk, Mr. Jones looks like the sensitive...
When I was growing up, popular culture didn't give me much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...
Aaron Caughey plays the Captain in suitable slapstick fashion, although his accent change in the final scene is a bit bewildering. His singing is nevertheless very solid and done with great gusto. Sarah Cullins as Josephine has a sweet, pleasant voice, but is expressionless throughout. She seems unable to sing and act simultaneously. Stephen Curtis as Josephine's suitor gives a good performance as a bumbling old fool, although his voice is a bit timid to start...
Corrina's accent is strong and she speaks in excited fast sentences that lurch from place to place. Now she is the oldest; her older brother was killed this summer in a motorcycle accident. She works full-time at the Rainbow, sometimes thirteen hours a day. Sometimes she complains that her brothers are free to do what they want while she is expected to work. Typical of Asian immigrant families, she says...