Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puns. The casting of Lynn Redgrave as the titular heroine is one clue to this light direction. Redgrave is long of leg and spunky, and does an amusing accent, sort of a delicatessen Dutch. She also narrates the film and dispenses some of the screenwriters' coy puns. One reminiscence begins with "Long before they could call me madam . . ." Other putatively funny episodes involve a striptease performed in the board room of a large corporation before a chairman dressed in tie, pinstripes and undershorts and a wealthy fetishist who enjoys an exotic combination of leather, a barking...
...call the Boston office of the People's Bicentennial Commission, you'll most likely hear one of those earnest, accent-free youngish voices you know you've heard somewhere before. It will belong to someone who has probably spent at least four years going to school after high school and could probably give Walter Cronkite a run for sounding like the doesn't really come from anywhere. But then the voice begins to sound familiar: "Sure...Salgon's about to fall. The anti-war movement is going domestic...
...accent is at least as good as Henry Kissinger's," boasts Champagne Music Maker Lawrence Welk, and his sense of harmony may even be better. Still, the king of schmalz announced last week that he would not run for President in 1976. Welk disqualified himself after 5,000 followers, led by an ardent Santa Barbara, Calif, fan, had written to suggest his candidacy. "Politics, like music and golf, is best learned at an early age," said Welk. "Having reached the age of 72, I'm afraid it is a little late to change horses in the middle...
...People would joke around--they didn't really mean to be cruel," she says. "But you can only stand just so much teasing about your accent in one day before you blow up. And they would say things like. Oh, do you have sidewalks in Mississippi? Do you wear shoes when you're down there...
Seth Riemer misinterprets his part as Giacomo, the family coward the only Cenci who would cringe at the thought of committing a murder. Riemer tries to convey this with an effect accent that seems anachronistic...