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Schwarzenegger will not be the only candidate who has the resources, powerful backers and name identification to push out Davis. Or even the only one who speaks with an accent: Huffington, running as an Independent and a populist outsider, has hired advisers who helped wrestler Jesse Ventura win the Minnesota governorship in 1998. Businessman Bill Simon, the Republican nominee defeated by Davis last year, has claim to the conservative base that provides the Republicans with what little life they have in California. Ueberroth, though officially a Republican, will sell himself as a serious candidate with crossover appeal in a state...
...second is that I “wanted to see what people’s reactions to it would be.” This is the one I was telling myself when I sat down in the chair in front of a hostile woman with forceps, a German accent and a long, hollow needle. But as soon as I looked at myself in the mirror post-piercing I knew it couldn’t have been for the reactions. The last thing I ever want to deal with is the slings and arrows of others—although I admit...
...next customer to the drop in center is unmistakably American, and by the accent probably Midwestern. His face is scrubbed to pinkness, his white hair combed over meticulously, and he laughs like an attack: nasal and whiny. Majoor sighs—the website is stubborn—and gets off the phone to take his question...
...Among the patrons in theater lobbies each summer, the prevailing accent is (accents are) American. I always figured they came over to hear how the language ought to be spoken; the English are so good at English. These days, it's heard more and more on the stage, emerging from the wisecracking mouths of some pretty nasty, venal or certifiably nutso characters. A team at the National is attempting a blend of the racy, rickety newspaper comedy "The Front Page" and its gender-switched movie version, the sublime "His Girl Friday." (This new version, by John Guare, keeps too much...
...person, Scott, 26, is soft-spoken, with a Minnesota accent--far more like a middle-school principal than a yob. But his actual personality is irrelevant to his appeal. To his fans, there is no Seann William Scott. Only Stifler. In the hour we're together at a Los Angeles coffee shop, two guys tell him how much they love Stifler. The night before our meeting, a bouncer at a nightclub told him, "Anything you need, Stifler. Anything." This conflation of actor and role is partly because of Scott's limited onscreen profile. His other film credits include Dude, Where...