Word: cockney
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...West and Marlene Dietrich, but it was in 1936, on a loan-out for an RKO flop, Sylvia Scarlett, that he finally "felt the ground under his feet," as George Cukor, the film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past, a Cockney con man with a chipper way of expressing a gloomy view of human nature. Here, for the first time, he achieved that quicksilver quality that was the basis of his stardom and, ultimately, his legend...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...
...Tony, the endearingly mouthy Cockney, rode horses, got married, drove a London taxi (as did his wife Debbie), did some TV bits as an actor, survived a marital crisis (due to his "regretful behavior") and made enough money to buy a holiday home in Spain for his wife, their children and three grandchildren. Tony's one regret is that the East End "changed"; it went brown. "Other cultures," he says, in one of the few overtly political comments on what has become a very domesticated series, "are buying all my old traditions...
...want RP," Hughes says. "Some want to sound like the people they work with - the way the majority of educated Londoners speak." He calls it "lazy RP," using less precision than a newsreader. So is lazy RP in the cards for me? Hughes has me read that fine old Cockney ballad My Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole and picks up on the way I always sound the consonant at the end of a word (I pronounce it righ-T, not righ'). According to him, I don't just have a British stiff upper lip but a tense lower...
...that is), on the isle of Ham, the onetime London district of Hampstead, six family clans eke out a hard, bucolic living. The Hamsters adhere to the ancient Davine scriptures, learning his "runs" by rote from the local priest, or Driver. They speak in Mokni, a transliterated mix of cockney, mobile text speak and the misunderstood vocabulary of cabbie Dave. Thus, they greet one another with "Ware2, guv," the night sky becomes the "dashboard," unmarried women are "opares" and every hot meal is a "curry." Peaceful normality reigns until one islander by the name of Symun starts preaching his doubts...