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...Could I interest you in a pub crawl?” inquired a lady as I was standing in East Berlin’s Hackescher Market with my friend Philippe and two travel companions. As the four of us hesitated, the lady went on in a thick English accent to invite us to join a pub crawl organized that night, with free entrance to the bars and clubs and free shots, all for a ten-euro...

Author: By Brian J. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swede and Sour | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...long high note in his showstopping A Gift for Living Well with a large, live rat crawling around his neck. As Marian, Maria Friedman is appropriately plucky and anguished. The other women are less memorable. As the title character, Angela Christian is saddled with an irritating, hard-to-decipher accent. It's hard to be eerie when you're singing, "I be raaht oopset!" Audience members who feel the same way have at least this consolation: the old Phantom is still playing, at a theater just down the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damsel In Distress | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

...interviewee, a red-faced man with a red, white and blue tie and a Southern accent, laughed nervously: “I’m just here to have some...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Jessica E. Schumer, and Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Crimson on the Floor | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

Days on Nair's set, populated by longtime collaborators, begin with group yoga, which is followed by a healthy dose of ribbing by the director. "I directed Gabriel Byrne entirely in a Ugandan accent," she says proudly. How will her move into more mainstream films affect this familial way of working? Nair isn't too apprehensive. "When I have passion for something," she says, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Her Cup of Chai | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...interviewee, a red-faced man with a red, white and blue tie and a Southern accent, laughed nervously: “I’m just here to have some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson on the Floor | 9/2/2004 | See Source »

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