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Within seconds of beginning our interview by phone, Def Jux rapper Murs has interrupted my questions to ask where I’m from (I have an accent). When I tell him, he says he’s surprised I even listen to hip-hop. “Hip-hop’s not that important—it’s just entertainment.” I tell him Tupac’s face is one of the more common images on T-shirts and walls in Africa (where I’m from) and he seems to accept...
...role as Carr’s politically savvy butler, sneaking drinks from the sideboard and constantly rolling his eyes in frustration at his master’s ineptitude. As James Joyce, James C. Oliver ’06 is a charming yet stern Irish caricature, complete with a thick accent, a giant shamrock pasted on the front of his hat and a habit of clicking his heels in a jig whenever he leaves the room. Tristan Tzara (Ryan Z. Cortazar ’06) is appropriately grandiose, dancing about the room and declaring his right to urinate in multiple colors...
Iraq's most powerful leader speaks Arabic with a decidedly Iranian accent and is never seen in public. There have been only six "official" photos of him published, and his most loyal followers have never heard his voice. He rarely leaves his small, dusty Najaf house other than to travel down a dirt path to his religious seminary. He shuns all interviews with the press and refuses to meet with Iraq's American occupiers. Yet with one call last November, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani brought plans for an American transfer of power to a grinding halt. Since the fall...
...Harvard does not love the friendly neighborhood international student? You know, the one who speaks in the strange accent using words nobody (or at least no one American) ever uses? The one who looks up momentarily when you start talking about “football,” only to realize with a sigh that you’re only discussing the other football, the one the barbarians in helmets play? Like many of these strange people from far-away countries, I came from India to this Mecca of education expecting to be a proud representative of my nation. Unfortunately...
...wowed U.S. critics. Already a legend for his music-video and advertising work, Gondry, 40, seems to have overcome the commercial and critical failure of his debut feature, 2001's Human Nature. And he's setting the standard for other French directors who are giving Hollywood a Gallic accent. Far from a car crash, his career has just shifted into high gear. Eternal Sunshine tells the story, in real time and through flashbacks, of lovers Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). When their affair fails, Clementine signs up with Lacuna Inc. for a brainwashing process that wipes...