Word: accents
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...accent will sound more than vaguely familiar. But when the new season of Desperate Housewives premieres on Sept. 27 - with Drea de Matteo as Angie Bolen, a transplanted New Yorker with a family and a secret - it'll be a far cry from Mob-filled New Jersey, where de Matteo drew raves as Adriana La Cerva in The Sopranos. That said, her chances of getting whacked might be about the same. De Matteo, 37, replaces the Housewife gap left by Nicollette Sheridan in a much heralded departure last season. She recently took time out from playing Wisteria Lane...
...From The Sopranos and Joey to this - I'm seeing an accent theme. The one through line is the big accent and the in-your-face attitude. I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very O.K. with that. I get super bored playing bland, normal girls. (See TIME's photos of ER's long goodbye...
...height of the civil war in Iraq, a tidal wave of refugees crossed the border into Syria, changing the face of the capital, Damascus, with their clothing, accents and shell-shocked appearances. Years later, many of the 1.5 million Iraqis remaining in Syria have become a part of the fabric of life. Many own homes or businesses and have children who speak Arabic with a Syrian accent. But one sector of the immigrant population still feels ill at ease: the 400,000 or so Iraqis with ties to the former regime of Saddam Hussein...
Last night’s preliminary election narrowed the mayoral field from four candidates to two. Menino, referred to by some as “Mumbles” for his thick Boston accent and history of verbal gaffes, swept roughly half the vote...
...vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika Jones, whose father Robert was a folksinger in the '60s and whose mom once dined with George Harrison, and yours truly, who saw the Beatles perform at Philadelphia's Convention Hall in 1964 and for months afterward affected an unintelligible Liverpudlian accent...