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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound--the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

McTeer and Brown, as Mary Jo and Ava, completely nail their chemistry; few actresses have made more convincing mother-daughter pairs than these two. McTeer is an award-winning British stage actress, though you'd never guess to look at her here; her North Carolina-tinged accent is spot-on, and she's so at home in her sundresses and golden tan that you could swear she was a Southern belle in a past life. She's already nabbed an early award from the National Board of Review for her performance, and she'll probably be making quite...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: McTeer and Brown Sparkle in Tumbleweeds | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...sophomore BJ "Brian" Averell in the role of Bela Zangler, the illustrious Hungarian owner of The Zangler Follies in New York City. While Averell has become a minor celebrity after his recent stowaway escapade, he was clearly meant to play Bela, with his slapstick antics and comic walk and accent. The sub-plot of Bela and Tess' love affair adds more fuel to the comic fire of Crazy...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Who Could Ask for Anything More?" A review of "Crazy for You" | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...forgotten, the warm accent of conductors, whose soothing "Hahvahd Squares" and "Pahk Streets" fill those cars not equipped with eerily fake computerized voices...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Falling in Love With the T | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...pants to the sneakers that pass for shoes from far away. He attaches a walkie-talkie and a hefty set of keys to a belt that snaps together with plastic clasps. His hat with a #157 badge covers his thinning white hair. When Billy speaks, he mixes his local accent with phrases such as "one might say" and "so to speak...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Smokin' With Billy: The Passions and (Extended) Family of a Harvard Guard | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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