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...filmmaker, but in his dream he was the lead character in a semiautobiographical movie. Playing him was French actor Patrick Dewaere, who was popular for playing luckless losers and social misfits in the 1970s until he committed suicide. "This guy blew his brains out," Gondry says, in an accent as strong as ripe Roquefort. "I'm really scared of dying." Dewaere as Gondry was in a car, with "this beautiful woman who was a mixture of three or four girls who broke my heart," and the car crashed. The scene repeated itself over and over like a film loop, Gondry...
Last night, while bringing bottled water to the register at the grocery store near Mather, I heard the clerk say something to his co-worker in Bengali. “You’re from India too?” I found myself asking him in my best Bengali accent. A five-minute conversation ensued, in which I learned that he was in fact Bangladeshi, but originally from Calcutta, and that his family owned several grocery stores back home. We laughed together over a joke only South Asians would appreciate, and as I walked out of the store I thought...
...film is a very loose, very Americanized remake of the Alec Guinness comedy of 1955, with which it shares a title, a basic situation and not much else. Tom Hanks--sporting a goatee, a white suit and a mellifluous Southern accent--expertly essays the Guinness part as a criminal mastermind bent on separating a casino from its take. To this end, Hanks' character, Professor G.H. Dorr, rents a room in a house owned by Marva Munson (the splendid Irma P. Hall). He thereby obtains access to the basement; ostensibly it's a rehearsal space for his period-instrument group...
Lynah is fun to play in when they get some fans in there. Plus I like the name a lot. Lynah. It feels like I’m talking in a Boston accent, but you can’t make fun of me because that’s how it’s pronounced...
...Islamic connection got another boost late on Saturday night when Acebes announced that the Spanish government had retrieved a videotaped message from a man purporting to be al-Qaeda's military spokesman in Europe. The Madrid television station TeleMadrid had received a call from a man with an Arab accent saying a tape had been placed in a wastebasket near the city's main mosque and the municipal morgue. Police secured the area, picked up the tape and translated it. According to Acebes, a man speaking Arabic with a Moroccan accent identifies himself as Abu Dujan al-Afgani, a military...