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...Bridget. I've met her a couple of times and she really is that girl - she has that sensibility. Her being American is a bit of a hurdle, but one that she easily will clear. She's been living in England for some months now working on the accent...
...obsessed with class - you know because I'm from England. There's not such an obvious class system here - though there does seem to be an ethnic and financial class system. I love when people are trying to sound nice, you know the "I loooovvvee it," with that accent. When Frenchie goes to the matinee, I play that up - she's like, "Oh, it moved me. Soooo wonderful." You know those types don't live in the city. They have the Jersey hairdos. But I love her - she's such a challenge...
Through books and films, Jacques-Yves Cousteau shared his close encounters with dolphins, sharks, whales and other sea creatures with armchair divers around the world. He was a showman nonpareil, as when he described his first scuba dive in his mellifluous French accent: "I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing." But the former French navy officer had a serious side. Cruising the oceans in his vessel Calypso, he became increasingly worried about their health and founded the Cousteau Society to sound the alarm...
...Abbess in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a baby-faced actress with a Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...
...next day, they leave Greece, my mother binding her future to a man with whom she has shared less than an hour's worth of private conversation. She knows no one in Chicago besides her husband; she understands only a handful of English words, spoken with a slight British accent...