Worst Film Accent?
 

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" just doesn't sound good with an Italian accent.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Yes, one must ask why Madonna didn't seek to effect a Boston accent.

Worst Film Accent?
 

I assume you're referring to: "You're not too smart are you? I like that in a man."

Which, for whatever reason, reminds me of this exchange (from a movie I can't recall):

"Are my breasts too small?"
"Sometimes."

Worst Film Accent?
 

While I wouldn't recommend it, and I certainly did not pay to see it, Dick Tracy didn't make me puke all over myself.

Worst Film Accent?
 

I'm not sure how "wailing" on an empire equates to "classiness", but whatever. Maybe because some Brits tend to enunciate well they sound refined. My parents still retain a fairly heavy accent and people do think they're smarter than the average bear because of it. Kind of funny, but it's not a bad thing. My brother-in-law is African but educated in England, and people tend to think he is educated above his actual education because of his accent, which he picked up from spending 12 odd years there. It is kind of odd, but he doesn't mind.

Really sad news
 

Buddy Hackett
dead at age 78

LOS ANGELES, June 30 — Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as “The Music Man,” “The Love Bug” and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” has died, his son confirmed Monday night. He was 78.
HACKETT DIED AT his Southern California beach house either late Sunday or early Monday, Sandy Hackett told The Associated Press Monday night. His body was found Monday.
Hackett was invited to join the Three Stooges when “Curly” Howard, the bald-headed member of the comedy team, suffered a stroke in 1946. But Hackett declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style. Playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish.

For those of you who are watching Last Comic Standing, remember Buddy, whose last job was a reality show.

Buddy Hackett full story here

Worst Film Accent?
 

I swear I don't work for the Boston Tourism office, but I believe the Boston accent is a descendant of the English accent. Or so says The Nation's English Doctor (and my ears).

Edited to note that this is apparently a Thai site, not The Nation like I thought but I stand by my point. :rolleyes:

Worst Film Accent?
 

I'm sorry, I should have said the Stuarts and Tudors had more SCOT than Twit in their bloodlines. That Scot/Scottish thing always gets me. Thanks for correcting it.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Now I'm hearing Tony Curtis spouting ?Shakespeare to Larry Olivier in his New Yawk accent.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Apparently, the Vermont/Maine accents are the closest you'll come to hearing the original English accent. The accent most Americans associate as being English is the product of generations of elocution lessions.

Kline & Kobayashi
 

I thought Kevin Kline's accent in French Kiss (and his French, for that matter), was pretty good. But of course you've never heard my French, so for all you know I could be talking out of my ass.

I thought the Kobayashi was the brand name at the bottom of the blackboard?

And, on a completely other note, I just got back from lunch with Tax_Hottie. She's definitely very cute. What did we talk about? Why, all of you, of course.

tm

Usual Suspects
 

Okay, answer this question for me. What was so clever about The Usual Suspects? It seems to me that [and stop reading here if you haven't seen the movie]. I loved the movie because of the clever twist, but most people act like Verbal made up the whole thing when all he did was replace the names of the people in the actual events with things he saw on the cop's wall. Cool idea. But not mind blowing.

Thurgreed(keyser soze)Marshall

Random Thoughts
 

1. Stupid things I want to buy: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/3966200.html

But I don't want a doofy little boxed chip, I want a honking big chunk with a plaque noting its provenance and then I want to put it either (1) in my office for social commentary (although I suppose the little boxed chip would work for that) or into the landscaping of Fugee Manor. It would be better than the pink flamingoes.

2. People with too much money and not enough sense.

This weekend I was in the tire department at Costco. Ahead of me in line was an obviously well-off 50-ish couple buying tires for their Mercedes and Jaguar (with the $60 off coupon!). The Mrs. was in very good shape with a stylish hairdo. But she was wearing the fugliest pair of D&G white denim capris with cargo pockets everywhere and a wide belt with rivet things. Those pants might have looked passable on a teen or young 20s girl but on her it looked like she was trying too hard. (Mind you I was dressed pretty slovenly myself so I shouldn't judge but she spent a ton of money to look so bad.)

3. In mourning for Kate

Katherine Hepburn is and will always be my style idol. I would love to dress like she did but it doesn't work if you are short and dumpy and don't have cheekbones that could slice bread. And I love her old movies because she played characters with the kind of confidence and presence I'd like to have. Sob.

Bottled water
 

If you keep telling yourself that your glorified fanny pack makes you look like anything other than a dork when you do what you probably don't think is the white man's overbite when you go out, does it work? If I told you 100 times that paigow is as sane as a serbian*, will you believe it?

TM

* doesn't quite work, but i like the alliterative quality -- and it sounds funnier than "senator"

For Love or Money
 

Virgins are overrated. Go with the girl with the skills.