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...true Hollywood fashion, have some mixed-race (with no Hispanic blood and who speaks terrible Spanish) or white kid (who speaks no Spanish). Have some brunette play his mother and speak broken English with a heavy Cuban/Mexican/South American/Italian accent when everyone is supposedly speaking Spanish...
...representative of something I want to comment on," says Wright, 34, "a self-absorption and a nihilism which I see in our culture now." While members of the Latino community complained last week about the sometimes comical accent he uses for the Dominican bad guy, Wright insists he "did it that way to point out that Peoples wasn't assimilated...
...father's generation seemed to be surprised by everything--a TV set, automatic shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...
...break. The film is funny and touching and beautifully understated; its characters earn big laughs with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...other. She was immaculately dressed and polite, in contrast to most of the people she had dealt with that day. When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld, a former jewelry-store owner, has no legal experience, she says she considered hers "a very clear case. I thought, 'I don't need a lawyer...