Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added delight, Lurie serves her romantic comedy with a mix of entertaining minor characters. There's Fred's wife and her photo exhibition of the male organs Vinnie finds so distasteful, a Cockney housekeeper philosopher, and Edwin Frances, the "homosexual who likes to dress up in his hostess's clothes...
...Americanization of Pygmalion: instead of a young Cockney woman's being taught how to speak the King's English, how about a Bronx cab driver's being coached to sing like a country boy? That's what Dolly Parton, 37, is doing to Sylvester Stallone, 37, in Rhinestone, which just started filming in Manhattan. Parton plays a singer in a honky-tonk bar who bets her boss that she can turn anyone into a country-and-western star. Enter You-Know-Who. Country Rocky soon learns how to belt it out not in the ring...
...sisters' lives and gradually becomes more selfish and demanding of the sisters as time passes. Since nothing really happens in the women's lives even after the bum moves in, the play depicts a series of conversations and confrontations between the women. Helping their dialogues are their excellent Cockney accents (easiest for Sandra Shipley, who is English...
...Thatcher's tour of the Far East last year if he would be wearing any particular hat, Denis shot back, "No hat, just my usual place half a step behind." Another time, commenting on his role in helping his wife campaign, he quipped in his best mock Cockney, "It's just a job. I do me best." And once when someone asked if he and Maggie had separate bank accounts, he replied, "God, yes, and separate beds...
Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...