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...called the University from his room at the Hotel Continental to confirm his appointment and was so thrown off by the broad Boston accent of the operator who answered the phone that he hung up, thinking he had gotten the wrong number...
Joel Stein's commentary on his experiences in Australia during the Games, "Canada with an Accent" [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 25], was the most insulting article I've ever read. The underlying prejudice and ignorance of this supposedly humorous piece were staggering. To categorize all Australians as "wussy suburban beach lovers" is as ignorant as it is tasteless. Perhaps the reason Stein decided to link Canadians and Australians is that we are both friendly and accepting peoples, characteristics Stein apparently lacks. Shame on Stein for writing such trash! And on TIME for printing it! DAWN VERHEYLEWEGEN Calgary, Alta...
...time to enter the Fort. In my next installment, "The Studio: Part One," I'll deconstruct the rock'n'roll album into basic tracks, overdubs, the role of a producer, and why having an engineer with a British accent makes all the difference. Until then, break out that old vinyl LP and give it a spin. The rock'n'roll album is a beautiful and sexy thing...
...course, since Hurley stars in Bedazzled opening today... I find it slightly disturbing that the London tabloids named Rocco Ritchie, Madonna's newborn son, as one of Britain's most eligible bachelors. The poor thing has enough to worry about with burping, teething, and his mother's cloying, fake accent-money-grubbers and prenups should be the last thing on this mind.... Both Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez were seen pigging out on McDonald's hamburgers. What wasn't seen, of course, was their subsequent trips to the bathroom to vomit... Met a girl who told me, "You have...
...wants a woman, Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen). She's flinty, principled and perhaps fatally compromised by allegations that she participated in an orgy in her college days. If she is ratified, it will be over the sternest objections of Representative Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman, sporting a cornpone accent and the most preposterously wayward Capitol Hill hairdo since Everett Dirksen's). "We're both sticking to our guns," Runyon warns Evans. "The difference is, mine are loaded." He is determined to corner Hanson with the question she refuses to answer: Are you now, or have you ever been, a slut...