Word: drawling
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...Midlerisms creep in, especially the ironic Sophie Tucker/W.C. Fields drawl. "A lot has to be played for laughs," Midler insists. "I thought she had to be very winning.Otherwise, how could she get all those people to do all those things for her?" Textually, the production is faithful, word for word and as Midler says, note for note and tempo for tempo...
Changes she's made in her speech: I had to stop saying "ain't" constantly and I drawl a lot less. My roomates love to hear my farm phrases--my grandmother taught me tons of them...
...Howell Heflin, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, is the epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
Richard Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...
...delirious whirl of the Manhattan club scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings...