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Maureen Boccaccio
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01-16-2009 09:31
And why is it that British/Scottish/Irish/Australian/New Zealanders can do such bang-up jobs with any number of U.S.-American accents...and yet so few US actors can get any British accent correct???
Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 09:37
From: Maureen Boccaccio
And why is it that British/Scottish/Irish/Australian/New Zealanders can do such bang-up jobs with any number of U.S.-American accents...and yet so few US actors can get any British accent correct???
My theory is that Americans dont realise that there isnt just one British accent while we know that there are lots of American accents. Or maybe you have better voice coaches than we do. Or maybe we dont want American actors stealing our roles. If Kevin Spacey stays in London any longer he will be able to get it right though.
Cael Merryman
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01-16-2009 09:43
From: Askandi Ansar
My theory is that Americans dont realise that there isnt just one British accent while we know that there are lots of American accents. Or maybe you have better voice coaches than we do. Or maybe we dont want American actors stealing our roles. If Kevin Spacey stays in London any longer he will be able to get it right though.


They realize it, but they watch a movie like Last Orders and say fugetaboutit (great movie by the way, but it took me a few minutes to actually understand what they were saying).
Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 09:44
From: Cael Merryman
On purpose? I mean, if he meant to be the most boring Scandinavian detective in the world, then he's still great. As to boring detectives, Jessica had to be the worst - only interesting to watch Murder She Wrote like Name That Tune - I can name the murderer in three minutes. OK, I can name the murderer in the opening credits.

'Course, she has fans and laughing at the wrong points can make them deadly. Which is what she was - the murdering Enterprise. Enterprise found a planet in every solar system, Jessica found a murderer at every stop. World would have been safer to lock HER up.
Sorry she has nothing on John Nettles as Barnaby in Midsummer Murders. In the first 70 episodes there were 181 deaths in a coppers patch which had only about half a dozen villages and one small town.
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01-16-2009 09:45
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Cael Merryman
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01-16-2009 09:47
From: Askandi Ansar
Sorry she has nothing on John Nettles as Barnaby in Midsummer Murders. In the first 70 episodes there were 181 deaths in a coppers patch which had only about half a dozen villages and one small town.


Nicely parochial - they kept killing people that had been in the area only a short while (not solely, I know). They nailed the real estate agents in one of the later shows that I figured were doing most of the killing all along, except it wasn't them. I still think they did some of the others...
Kaimi Kyomoon
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01-16-2009 09:56
From: Ghosty Kips
Hahaha ... and who could forget "My Stepmother is an Alien"

... ok, I could. :rolleyes:
Ha ha I saw it with two of my step kids when they still thought I was an alien.


From: Ghosty Kips
Ooh, now see, this gets my brain working, and it dredged up a synopsis of that recital in highly condensed form:

Not old enough to know better;
Old enough to know better, but not old enough to know;
Old enough to know, but not old enough;
Old enough, but not old;
and then, suddenly,
Not.
Good summation.



From: Elora Lunasea
How sad. The great american painter Andrew Wyeth died. 91 years old. Most famous for "Christinas World".

http://blog.photoshelter.com/image/christinas_world.jpg
I was surprised to hear this earlier, I seem to have memories of him dying a long time ago. :o He's one of my favorite painters.



From: Jerboa Haystack
Oh he was good at that role...but I thought he came across a little like Beetlejuice...

For truly odd casting...how did Keanu Reeves manage to score the role of Don John in Much Ado About Nothing? :eek:
Perhaps it's because the scenery and costumes were so lovely but I thought everyone was good in that movie. But then I've liked Keanu Reeves in everything. I didn't even think "Speed" was quite as horrible as it might have been. ( :o I like Sandra Bullock too.)
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01-16-2009 09:56
From: Skell Dagger
I've got 'This Corrosion' blasting out so loud the floorboards are shaking.

I wouldn't want to be my neighbours right now ;)


Coincidence - I'm listening to Some Girls Wander By Mistake - complilation of all their 12" singles from 1980-83. Proper goth and no mistake.
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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01-16-2009 09:57
From: Skell Dagger
Anyone remember The Sisters of Mercy? Apparently their siblings recorded their own version of the 'Floodland' album :D

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I love all your photos.



From: Jerboa Haystack
But...but...what about this version of the Crispin Day speech?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApcrdI-XPdU

:D
I just cried watching it.



From: Maureen Boccaccio
And why is it that British/Scottish/Irish/Australian/New Zealanders can do such bang-up jobs with any number of U.S.-American accents...and yet so few US actors can get any British accent correct???
Maybe because there are a couple of very common U.S. accents that other English speakers are very familiar with. In fact there is one U.S. accent that most Americans consider no accent. In The U.K. every time you travel 5 miles you hear working people speaking with a new accent. And non-working class people have different accents again. It seems to me that U.S. actors often end up combining several different accents when they attempt to sound British and the result doesn't sound authentic at all.

Oops! Askandi just said that.
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MortVent Charron
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01-16-2009 10:01
/me bores a bit at work... and unleashes horror... He floods the thread with the sound of hyperactive japanese school girls on helium and amphetamines singing commerical jingles at chipmunk like speeds...
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Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 10:03
From: MortVent Charron
/me bores a bit at work... and unleashes horror... He floods the thread with the sound of hyperactive japanese school girls on helium and amphetamines singing commerical jingles at chipmunk like speeds...
Now that makes me think about the manga Shakespeare books that the schools are using to get the kids interested in it
Jerboa Haystack
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01-16-2009 10:05
From: Askandi Ansar
My theory is that Americans dont realise that there isnt just one British accent while we know that there are lots of American accents. Or maybe you have better voice coaches than we do. Or maybe we dont want American actors stealing our roles. If Kevin Spacey stays in London any longer he will be able to get it right though.


Or maybe we just expect everyone to talk like us. :D
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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01-16-2009 10:07
From: MortVent Charron
/me bores a bit at work... and unleashes horror... He floods the thread with the sound of hyperactive japanese school girls on helium and amphetamines singing commerical jingles at chipmunk like speeds...
There's only one answer to that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw63atzHGyw&feature=related
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Jerboa Haystack
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01-16-2009 10:12
From: Askandi Ansar
Now that makes me think about the manga Shakespeare books that the schools are using to get the kids interested in it


not to mention the manga foreign language books. Learn Spanish today by reading Kodomo wa Nan Demo Shitte Iru

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From: Maureen Boccaccio
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Jerboa Haystack
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01-16-2009 10:14
From: Kaimi Kyomoon
There's only one answer to that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw63atzHGyw&feature=related


what...was...that...
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From: Maureen Boccaccio
Well between your fingers and that magical device, you work wonders.


TOTD:
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Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 10:15
From: Jerboa Haystack
Or maybe we just expect everyone to talk like us. :D
Which us is that. The Bronx snarl, the Southern drawl or the Californian mittelEuropean Governorspeke?
Lindal Kidd
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01-16-2009 10:16
From: Askandi Ansar
Maybe you should make another calendar with thread people posing as Shakespearean characters. On recent reading I can see lots of competition for the Romeo and Juliet page. Amaranthim and Damian, Elora and Ghosty, Maureen and Jerboa or even Skell and Daros. Brenda is a shoe in for Lady Macbeth though.


Me! Me! I wanna be Ariel!
I vote Oryx for Lady Macbeth...all those icky parasitical refernces of hers. Brenda should be Kate!
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01-16-2009 10:17
From: Jerboa Haystack
what...was...that...
Where do you think Michael Jackson got his ideas?
Kaimi Kyomoon
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01-16-2009 10:18
From: Lindal Kidd
Me! Me! I wanna be Ariel!
I vote Oryx for Lady Macbeth...all those icky parasitical refernces of hers. Brenda should be Kate!
I think being tamed might be a bit of a stretch for Brenda...
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Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 10:19
From: Lindal Kidd
Me! Me! I wanna be Ariel!
I vote Oryx for Lady Macbeth...all those icky parasitical refernces of hers. Brenda should be Kate!
Presumably not the Kiss Me Kate version?
Maureen Boccaccio
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01-16-2009 10:19
From: Kaimi Kyomoon
There's only one answer to that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw63atzHGyw&feature=related


omg...I am crying I am laughing so hard!!! And that is not a good thing here in the office!!!
LittleMe Jewell
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01-16-2009 10:20
From: Elora Lunasea
..... I always was into literature, however, for some reason never delved into Shakespeare. It wasn't required reading in my school which was a shame. I never attempted to pick it up on my own and until I saw "Much Ado About Nothing", didn't quite get the language. That film put it into complete perspective for me, the actors spoke the language SO well and it all suddenly made perfect sense to me. ...
I enjoy watching the plays, but have a difficult time reading it. My favorite from my school required readings were the Poe stories. As an adult, I ended up buying a huge book of his works and I reread it a lot.
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Askandi Ansar
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01-16-2009 10:21
From: LittleMe Jewell
I enjoy watching the plays, but have a difficult time reading it. My favorite from my school required readings were the Poe stories. As an adult, I ended up buying a huge book of his works and I reread it a lot.
Winnie the Poe?
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01-16-2009 10:21
From: Jerboa Haystack
what...was...that...

I vote Benny Lava: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=related
And let us not forget... Girly Mannnnnnnn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc&feature=related
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Jerboa Haystack
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01-16-2009 10:26
From: Askandi Ansar
Maybe you should make another calendar with thread people posing as Shakespearean characters. On recent reading I can see lots of competition for the Romeo and Juliet page. Amaranthim and Damian, Elora and Ghosty, Maureen and Jerboa or even Skell and Daros. Brenda is a shoe in for Lady Macbeth though.


Oh, I'll pass on Romeo...I'd prefer to stay breathing when the story is over. :)

I'll call dibs on Orlando (As You Like It). At least he gets the girl in the end. :D
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