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...drifted away. "Those were the days," said Petar Gracanin, a Milosevic crony who was once Yugoslavia's Defense Minister, sounding almost wistful. Close by, young Serbs ignored the fuss. "Let them have their protest," said Jelena Savic, 19, a law student, buying ice cream. "It's their last one. Thank God it's over...
Later that day I got a qualified thank-you e-mail from student Adam Riff, who invited me to hang out with a dozen friends in his parents' living room, where they tried to make me feel better. "We all enjoyed watching the principal squirm and turn red in the face," Adam offered. I was also told I was in good company because Star Trek Voyager's LeVar Burton spoke last year...
...bigger. But it did last March, on Oscar night. She accepted her award and the lips parted from ear to ear, from sea to shining sea, even as her memory grew dim. In her now infamous, rambling, exuberant, makes-for-great-television acceptance speech, she unfortunately failed to thank, among others, the real Erin Brockovich, the legal eagle whose fight for justice had inspired the movie that brought the star to the podium. Not even the desperate time signals from orchestra conductor Bill Conti could slow her down. "I was having an existential moment," she explains, months later. "I forgot...
...excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English-speaking Yanks, Anglos, Aussies and Asians, including the phonetically unimpressive Mr. Mahathir," comments TIME critic Robert Hughes, author of The Fatal Shore, a history of Australia, "you realize that the days of uniform English pronunciation are long gone...
...Seems so. Thank...