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Murphy, who speaks in a soft Australian accent, says she had originally planned to fly from Boston to Los Angeles early Wednesday morning and then take a connecting flight home to Australia. The two flights that were hijacked from Logan and crashed into the World Trade Center Tuesday were scheduled to arrive...
...Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some of the more personal elements of the book (despite quipping that Fury is “entirely autobiographical—it shouldn’t really be called a novel”). Rushdie read a chapter that required his self-possessed English accent to deliver itself of the cadences of, like, American youth to comic effect. In answer to a question at the reading about the importance of dreams and fantasy in his works, Rushdie spoke about the spilling over of the imagination into the real world, and about the power...
...build up credit as an actor, he works hard and shuns the party scene. For Friends, he spent four months in Pusan learning the rough local accent. Before each shoot, he smoked heavily (even more than his usual two to three packs a day) and avoided water?to give his voice a raspy edge. When he's not filming, he spends time at his parents' or goes out with friends. "I prefer to live a quiet life," he says. If only those women would let him eat his noodles in peace...
Picture a much younger Martha Stewart with a Scottish accent, marketed to the Ikea demographic, and you have McKevitt. Through her home-design TV shows, books and branded lines of bedding, paint and tiles, McKevitt, 33, has styled herself Britain's premier living brand. In September the former hairdresser's assistant who left home at 15 will tackle the U.S. market through home-shopping shows, catalogs and the Internet...
...displaying the reams of mulberry paper they have been making, he continuously reminds his constituents of his connection with all things futuristic, shiny and new. He vows to distribute more money without government interference, without a single baht unfairly withheld, without unnecessary delay. He says in his Northern Thai accent that he is one of them, that he knows they can't wait for the money, that they need the Internet, that they need e-commerce. His voice is a nasal tenor, the run of his rambling vowels is corralled by strong, pronounced consonants. "Do you know what...