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...used to think Gwyneth Paltrow was a nice blond girl (okay, so a nice, unnaturally blond girl). After all, she always played the victim, always had pretty hair and could carp in a British accent with the best of them. But Gwyneth started to wear on me. I couldn't quite figure out why. And then it all started coming together last month--after she lampooned Sharon Stone's husband on SNL. Stone, unable to contain her boiling rage, burst out with what everyone has been thinking for months: "She lives in a rarefied air that's very thin...
...Frank McCourt is a storyteller. He has an accent seemingly unaffected by a half-century in the United States, a brogue so rich and textured that it fills the room completely and envelops his listeners. He cracks jokes--smart, pointed and wickedly funny. He talks about "long-legged Episcopalians" with "apocalyptic bosoms," the seven deadly sins, and the "explosive creativity" of the American adolescent. (His plan for exterminating Saddam Hussein is to "drop 1,000 American Adolescents with boom boxes in Baghdad or Teheran.") And he talks about how taking attendance at McKee Vocational and Technical High School sounded like...
...strangely, Driver's voice is obviously British, and Lady Eboshi is clearly not. Using British actors to play "upper classes" is fairly common in American film but is incredibly distracting when the characters are not supposed to be American or British. Coincidental or not, Driver's accent is a somewhat jarring reminder that Princess Mononoke has been altered for American audiences. Similarly, Jada Pinkett-Smith's distinctive voice sounds a little strange emerging from a Japanese prostitute turned iron-worker, and Billy Bob Thornton, as an oddly violent monk is almost too bizarre for belief...
Anyone want to teach me a Brooklyn accent...
...alleged con artist used the alias Seamus O'Reilly. Harvard University Police (HUPD) described O'Reilly as a 6-foot white male with brown hair, who spoke with an Irish accent...