Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holliday plays her, Flo is television's Mae West: sex is the one thing she has on her mind, but, as she talks about it, in her barbecued accent, it is funny as well as fun. Rarely have a wiggle and a leer seemed so innocent. In this, her opening show, she returns to what must be the pokiest spot in the prairies, where the chief attraction is an indoor mall with an outdoor escalator. The local bar, where she spent the happiest days of her merrily misguided youth, is on the verge of bankruptcy...
...goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers Fillingham. "I'll blow you for a drink" gets a raucous laugh O'Neill never intended. Still, Fillingham could have surmounted that difficulty with a knowing...
...good ole boys, the best scenes are ante. Prewar Warren is a demure but determined plantation mistress arching through Georgia with much of her Mason-Dixon lines swelling out of Deep South decolletage. Beulah Land was actually filmed in Natchez, Miss., where plantations have been preserved and the Southern accent is so pervasive that the Manhattan-raised actress found it easier to slip into y'alls than into cum bersome ball gowns and pantalettes. Says she: "The sound was all around me. It's difficult to drop after working a twelve-hour...
...Gulve, a San Diego financial consultant whose clients gave Meltzer $55,000, told TIME that Meltzer did introduce him to two supposed sons of the sheik in Florida. One was called Prince Ali Ben Ramon, a light-skinned man who spoke with an Oxford accent and drove a Rolls-Royce. The other was Mustafa, a much swarthier man who drove a red Mercedes. Gulve also spoke on the phone to someone who identified himself as Sheik Rahman, and found his accent decidedly Eastern. Says Gulve: "I told him that if he was the sheik, he must own all of Brooklyn...
...that as it is in performances, so it is in life ? that he can speak the truth about himself only when he is using a borrowed voice. He recently turned to his wife, dropped into a classic lower-class British accent and proceeded to level all his own pretensions...