Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lots of lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration'" and "Yes, Renfield, I offer you your soul in exchange for what you know"--but everyone carries on unflinchingly. Anne Ames and Nicholas Shorter put on fine cockney accents, and John Phillips as Renfield, whose hobby is eating flies, keeps threatening to forsake mere competence for genuine creepiness. John S. Scherlis, as Dracula himself, manages a creditable Bela Lugosi accent, though he lacks the music that saved Lugosi from monotony...
...went home for a weekend. To visit a friend who was a counselor at a girl scout camp in the area. I went, with Kevin, to Squire's. And we got picked up. By two girls who believed we were correspondents for Melody Maker. I faked my best Cockney for the occasion. She believed us, nearly. But it was better once she found out we were from Harvard. All she really wanted was to score some cocaine. (At the time, I wouldn't have known cocaine from table salt. But I was bold.) So, I fed her a few beers...
...money are simply colorful additions to Black English and have little to do with the substance of the dialect. In fact, mistaking black slang as Black English leads to the conclusion that the dialect is merely a corruption of English. For example, 'bread' for money is actually a Cockney idiom...
...they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized London...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...