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...provided the funny lines, as when Luanne spots a giant snake in the living room and, as it slithers her way, shouts, "It's comin' to kill me! It knows I'm a Christian!" But Murphy was the young woman's soul. Using a deep-throated, deep-fried southwestern accent (the actress was raised in Edison, N.J.), she gave Luanne a friendly but willful tone that could instantly reach hysterics of mirth or despondency. Murphy put just enough Too Much into Luanne's inane enthusiasms and her fortissimo fears. She knew that the character was deficient in self-esteem...
...soft features and stammering charm. They are the opposites who might conceivably attract. As moneyed Manhattanites Meryl and Paul Morgan, she's a homegrown real estate agent and he's a lawyer from Chicago. But since this Grant makes no more serious an attempt to hide his English accent than Cary did, Chicago sounds more like Chichester. (See 25 people who mattered...
...Harvard it was difficult for me, because it was a very different environment. I was black, but I didn’t feel like I was from Africa, nor was I African-American. People would ask me, ‘Why are you Nigerian with an English accent?’ It was weird always having to explain myself, and I was constantly feeling a need to conform to something or to be somebody,” explains Johnson...
...relief, their banter is energetic and perfectly timed. The interaction between these characters has the power to induce nostalgia in those who might otherwise look back on their high school days with nothing less than disdain. Every speaking character has practiced and acquired what one imagines to be the accent of the 1950s. And although no one should expect “Grease” to be historically accurate, such flourishes are appreciated...
...unfolds is a story familiar in its conception if not in its ultimate resolution. Slowly but surely, the strange monster is civilized, though the religious townspeople continue to live in a hypocritical state of fear of this foreign creature (his strangeness cemented in the humorous acquisition of a British accent); once their cautious acceptance is granted, a bizarre twist of events unjustly casts the Bat Boy—deemed Edgar by his new family—back into the position of a dangerous beast, and the climatic chase ensues...