Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When you first see Duke and hear her speak her opening line, "Oh my, it's fruitcake weather," your heart sinks. Old-age makeup and a Southern accent--this means for sure that we're in for a wondrous, lovable eccentric. Fruitcake weather, indeed. Duke does play Sook with flibbertigibbet mugging and a sort of clown walk, but you see why this lonely, sensitive boy loves her, and by the time they have to part, you are almost as tearful as they both are. What is most admirable about A Christmas Memory is that the battle between responsibility and emotion...
...then there is the luminous Driver who is shaping up to be one of the best young actresses today. Her role is underwritten, but she simply elevates herself above the script. She glows onscreen with charisma, and her sly British accent makes her banter with Will all the more entertaining. You have to wonder what Driver would do with a better-written part...
...never get a better actress than that. I mean, we all knew who she was. It was intimidating enough when she walked into the room. We started doing this scene in a movie where we get in a huge fight and she did it three times in three different accents. And it was just extraordinary in each one. And finally, she's doing it in this Irish accent and it's the third time she's doing it-- she starts the scene and I totally blanked. After four and half years of trying to get this movie made, I didn...
...watched the trial of au pair Louise Woodward [NATION, Nov. 10] and came to the same conclusion the jury did: that Woodward killed baby Matthew Eappen. Maybe it was not done intentionally, but don't be fooled by Woodward's appearance or British accent into believing that she is innocent. JOANA K. TAM Burnaby...
...tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic packaging over genuine emotional resonance, even in the central relationship between Brad Pitt's Austrian mountaineer and the young Dalai Lama. Pitt is ludicrously out of place--a Hollywood heartthrob trying to look spiritual and attempting a dreadful accent. The film actually becomes more dramatically compelling as his character fades in prominence, though it's amusing to watch his narcissism get deflated...