Word: accent
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...each other only this semester, but within 15 minutes they knew they were going to run for the top two UC posts together. James is a part-time stand-up comic and government concentrator who hails from Jackson, Miss., which he describes in his light Southern accent as “one of the roughest neighborhoods” in the state. Wong is a lanky, violin-playing philosophy concentrator who says in his British accent that he has traveled to all seven continents. It is apparent that the two form a political odd couple. Nevertheless, Wong says that the similarity...
...intuitive,” he said. For this reason, Zwick turned to seasoned actors, including Daniel Craig, Liev Schriber, and Jamie Bell. “It was a very large cast of hugely talented actors from all over the world...In this case when it was about language and accent and all these things I really felt I needed people of a particular background,” he said. In preparing for “Defiance,” Zwick put to use the research skills he learned at Harvard, spending countless hours combing through original sources documenting the Bielski...
...biggest disappointment, however, was the DS program from hunky celebri-chef Jamie Oliver. His $30 What's Cooking? felt half-baked. While I loved listening to Oliver's British accent and pondering his inspired recipes, he only briefly introduces the dishes and does not talk you through their preparation, which you have to read about onscreen instead. And the brownies came out literally half-baked--I had to leave them in an extra 10 minutes to get them to merely gooey. But they tasted great...
...Doomsaying beatnik Ian Malcolm (Mason Ross) punctuated pauses by jiggling his head and muttering inaudibly. Lex (April Camlin), the hyper-annoying computer nerd, carried her character’s emotional outbursts to the limits of human expression. Robert Muldoon (Connor Kizer) played every scene with a Sean Connery-ish accent and an insane excitement at the prospect of death. And of course Samuel L. Jackson’s character—referred to in the play only as Samuel L. Jackson (Stephen Strohmeier)—got to scream a line about being “sick of these... dinosaurs...
...fact, two different cuts of the film were eventually created, and individual states could decide which version should play on their screens. "Accused of being too violent, plagued by censorship problems, scripted by a flamboyant writer, and starring an actor who sometimes went over the top on his accent - remind you of a movie we know? The 1932 Scarface both dovetails and diverges from its sequel in striking ways...