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Moving to London and adopting a British accent: that was child's play. The mother of reinvention, MADONNA has gone and changed her name--her religious name, anyway. In adherence to Cabala, the medieval Jewish mysticism she famously studies, the Ethereal Girl has taken on the Hebrew name Esther because her given name, which belonged to her mother, who died young of cancer, carries negative energy. Dropping her dead mother's name? If it's good karma she's after, this seems like a wash...
...more dodgy (as they say), a bright face under dripping hair offers directions (oh, the No. 49 bus doesn’t run at night) and asks questions (there’s a lot of crime in New York too, ain’t there) in a cockney accent, not the sort known to be particularly chatty with out-of-towners. She reveals: “There’s that London [gesturing perhaps towards Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square] but there’s also this London [nodding at the drunk in the shadows]. And after 11, there?...
...Paris you're always surrounded by French people. As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. You can have little moments with them where you realize you're both passing [as Brits]. If you need to, you can fake an accent...
...appear on the West End, in a production of The Prince and the Showgirl. Now Carey has announced she'll also be writing a series of children's books--in response to letters she has received from fans--about growing up biracial. Can a Brit accent be far behind...
...honed his ability to deliver dialogue with speed, assurance and conversational authority. Warner was a studio of fast-talking actors, but most of the men either sounded straight off the sidewalks of New York City (Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien) or had acquired a well-bred British accent (the Australian Flynn, the Irish Brent). Reagan could pitch the sassy patter, but in heartland-America tones. Warner realized this and custom-made his first movie, Love Is on the Air. Playing a crusading radio host, he got to read much of his dialogue straight from the script...