Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, however, it is Wynn's personality that is on trial. Many people know Wynn as a witty storyteller who can mimic anyone's accent and who rewards his employees with gifts (he once bought luxury cars for 377 casino supervisors in Atlantic City). But a lawsuit by the former head of Wynn's Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas, Dennis Gomes, has laid out what colleagues and even some relatives of Wynn's have said about him privately for years: he has a tendency to explode at the people around him. There are many offenses Gomes lists...
Solid performances were delivered by Michelle Sullivan, as Madeleine, and Spyros Poulios, as Fergus. The two leads seemed to push along the absurdist plot with energy. Poulios's intriguing accent and slurring, as well as his convincing passion were marvelously sustained throughout the work. His blocking and gesturing captured the simultaneously introverted and erotic Fergus with aplomb. Although sometimes dwarfed by Poulios's emotion and improvisation, Sullivan put together a convincing dramatic collage of her own as the tough and straight-talking Madeleine, a Madeleine that is intellectually, though not emotionally, in touch with Fergus's elan. Yet despite...
...Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot," he says, looking dazed at the memory. He heard reporters making bets that he'd miss his big shot. "They kept saying, 'If you win this million dollars, are you gonna move out of that swamp?' " he recalls, making fun of his own accent with an exaggerated drawl...
...animal-language experiments had an awards dinner, the prize for best accent would go to the befeathered Alex. The parrot acquired his Midwestern accent from his mentor, Pepperberg. She became intrigued by the language work with great apes in the 1970s and decided to examine the abilities of an animal with an entirely different brain structure. She chose parrots in part because they can actually talk and because studies had established that the birds could perform as well as chimps on some psychological tests, suggesting that brain size is not the only determinant of mental ability...
...writers also "throw a wench in the works, perhaps only so they can use that pun. Jason Cooper provides an energetic performance as Marion Haste, whose Brooklyn accent sometimes becomes Long Island (we thought she was supposed to be Amy Fisher for a while) and sometimes disappears altogether. Haste is one of Lasnight's previous nights, and now she's pregnant. She writes a kiss and-tell "scroll" and tries to convince Diana that Lastnight is scum. (Political Subtext...