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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...style of filmmaking, it is difficult to believe in these characters as flesh-and-blood humans because their roles are stereotypical—or, if you prefer, archetypical. You have the buxom blonde, the serious heroine, and the hard-drinking, philosophy-spouting professor. (And yes, he has an accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diary of the Dead | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Valentine’s Day plans with her?JWW: Maybe I’ll do some reading for her class, even though it was last semester. Maybe that’s her fetish.Julia M. Anoshechkina ’10RR: Have you ever had a hot TF?JMA [strong Russian accent]: Yes. Definitely. RR: What class?JMA: 1010a. He’s from Australia. He had a cute accent too.RR: Who has a cuter accent? JMA: Him. Definitely. RR: Did you ever flirt with him?JMA: Not intentionally. I just tried to do my work very well. RR: What...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...masse of undergrads from the Sciences to the Humanities goes to show that this trend is becoming more pervasive than ever before. After all, who wouldn’t prefer to spend section listening to one of Her Majesty’s finest discussing Henry IV with a British accent rather than frantically deciphering an unintelligible Math...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shakespeare and Love | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...brazen heist took place at 4:30 in the afternoon, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Thieves Nab Cezanne Masterwork | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...tough was the Boston accent? I worked at the accent. I did listen as much as I could. I sat with teamsters at lunch or between breaks or with Jill Quigg who plays my best friend Dottie. She's a Boston native. That's the first time she's ever acted in her life. Isn't that staggering? Jill was the main source. She let me record her voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Amy Ryan | 1/12/2008 | See Source »

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