Word: cockneyism
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...years old, and before I came to America, I must have toured the length and breadth of England many times, playing music halls, doing holiday shows and singing at concerts. Yet other than The Boy Friend, I had never done a book musical, and Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower peddler who becomes a lady, is probably one of the greatest and most difficult roles that an actress could tackle...
...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?...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Quack Science Middlesex University academics comparing the quacks made by ducks in London with those heard in the South West of Britain claimed the birds have regional accents. While the Cockney ducks' quack echoes a shout or a laugh, the researchers said, the call of their Cornish cousins resembles a giggle. Can duck devolution be far behind...
...role choices have reflected a love for the big character. He has played Moses, Lenin, Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank's father Otto in TV movies, and won two Oscar nods for playing gangsters - Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991) and, a decade later, Sexy Beast's Don Logan, the Cockney-accented human incarnation of rage. "It is archetypes that I drift toward as an actor," Kingsley says. Almost all of them are touched by tragedy, including his upcoming role opposite Annette Bening in Mrs. Harris, the true story of the philandering Scarsdale-diet inventor Herman Tarnower, who was killed...
...this March 2004 film exits early. The rest of the onscreen sparks belong to Affleck and LIV TYLER, who plays a video-store clerk. The two recorded a song together for the movie. Did the daughter of Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler enlist Dad's help? "I sing in a Cockney accent," she says. Apparently Dad doesn't do one. "I had to wing...