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...woman screamed to her friend in a heavy Brooklyn accent...
Elkies, who now speaks perfect English with a slight accent, stayed at Stuyvesant for three years and simultaneously enrolled in the Julliard School's pre-college program for musicians. He started playing piano when he was three years old, and began "filling sheets of music with notes" before he was four...
...melting pulchritude to best advantage. Virna Lisi, who took the acting prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici as a cross between a mafia boss and an overprotective mother, Lisi makes her the only three-dimensional character in the movie...
...Basinger is a natural as FAD-TV's star fashion reporter, Kitty Potter, a dizzy blonde with a pronounced Southern accent. The studio publicity for "Ready to Wear" gushes that Basinger only had ten days of preparation time for the role--what an agonizing stretch it must have been for her. Kitty is meant to be our Virgil, adding structure and guiding us through the pitfalls of fashion hell. But Basinger, like Altman, his actors and audience, gives up trying to understand what's going on and instead enjoys the spectacle...
UConn has something for everyone, even the Massachusetts sports fan. Coach Calhoun has a Boston accent that would make any Southie proud and he honed his craft with the Huskies of Northeastern. There is also the Bob Cousy-like presence of Israeli Iceman Doron Sheffer. The Neely-esque instant offense of Brian Fair. And the precocious all-around talent of sophomore Ray Allen brings second-year Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe to mind...