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Krayzelburg speaks easily in English, no trace of an accent. His father speaks little English, his mother a bit more. Cutting across the campus at USC, where he still trains, the child of the Soviet Union stops often to talk with friends, students and teammates. He talks about the Lakers, the Dodgers, whatever. He talks about the NASDAQ. His degree is in finance. "So, do you think I look Russian?" he suddenly asks. His hair is blond. His eyes are blue. He could be featured on one of those Soviet posters of the Cold War, staring ahead toward...
...Annan continues in his quiet voice, decorated with a lively British accent. "I witnessed a scene in my father's office once which shocked me a bit. He was looking over a set of accounts. He had a question or something, so he called one of the junior managers, and of course the fellow came rushing right in. But the fellow was smoking. And he put the cigarette--still lit--into his pants pocket because my father didn't smoke and didn't approve of people who did. And he stood there as he talked to my father, with...
...care much for Washington, even though that's where her father and grandfather taught her to ride her bike, on the Capitol grounds, and where she went to school. She shares her father's attachment to Tennessee, where she was born. "Everyone says I had a really strong Southern accent," she sighs. "I'm so bummed I lost it." She is self-deprecating about her experiences in the world of the powerful. Writing about Gore's second Inaugural in Slate, she described Chuck Berry stepping on her foot and how all the party tenting made her house look like...
...year. "It's a very unusual piece," says Madden, on location in Greece. "It's about the Italian occupation of a Greek island during World War II, and how basically the Italians and Greeks are very similar people." Cage, an American, is the mandolin-playing Italian captain (in full accent), while Cruz, a Spaniard, is the foxy Greek ingenue Pelagia. Madden, a Brit, is directing in English...
...Performances are excellent across the board, with Thomas H. Price '02 playing a convincingly slimy bad guy (note the lower class English accent...maybe this is Disney after all), and perfectly understated acting by the young Eoin Gaj in his role as Mrs. Hapgood's preppy son. Tremendous credit is also due to director Nicholas R. Parrillo '00, who seems to have a gift for quietly taking student theater to a truly professional level...