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...want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" Imagine a similar scene. On the stand is Samuel L. Jackson portraying Col. Terry Childers. The fresh-out-of-law school idealistic and handsome prosecutor who replaces Tom Cruise is Guy Pearce of L.A.Confidential fame. Don't ask what accent this Australian is trying to imitate. Jackson's confession goes more like this: "Yes. Innocent people probably died." He stands up and yells it for emphasis...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Can't Handle The Rules | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...little cycle of tolerance and rejection with the Northeast since I first came here from Texas four years ago. As a first-year, I loved Boston because it was a new experience. "More sleet!" I would yell. "More scrod! Wicked! Wicked! Wicked!" Sophomore year, I saw a downside--that accent was really not just an elaborate ruse. Now, in my senior year, I'm watching my friends take jobs in New York and Boston, and it seems these places are unavoidable on the path to success. Problem is, after three years I'm sick of the Northeast. I want...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: There's No Place Like home | 4/4/2000 | See Source »

...permanence my current life lacks. Or maybe other seniors and I are drawn back to our homes because making something of ourselves back there would mean more than it would in the impolite anonymity of a strange, big city. Maybe I just really don't dig the Northern accent (in Texas, Fran Drescher is officially classified as a game animal...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: There's No Place Like home | 4/4/2000 | See Source »

...career and life, with the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's. No My Fair Lady or Charade; nothing of the work for UNICEF. Still, what's onscreen fascinates because of the life itself and, at bottom, because of the dead-on impersonation by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hepburn's accent; her posture; her chin-down, eyebrows-up way with a line--Hewitt has it all, and charm to boot. Delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audrey Hepburn Story | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Instead, he picked up the language on the streets of Cambridge. Underneath his thick Boston accent, Andrade still has traces of Portuguese pronunciation...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Everybody Knows Joe': Beloved Van Driver Says Goodbye to the Shuttle | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

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