Word: cockney
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...Francis Bacon, one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century. When Bacon died in 1992, he bequeathed his celebrated works and $18.05 million estate to Edwards, the subject of more than 30 of the artist's portraits. Stuffy collectors and museum curators were incensed that a common Cockney cocktail-slinger had made off with the crown jewels of modern British...
...Maurice Micklewhite--Caine never bothered legally changing his name, so he was knighted in 2000 with the name he got at birth from his fishmonger father--believes there is a season for every purpose, and vice versa. Growing up Cockney, in the Rotherhithe section of London, taught him to observe life in the raw: to retain those images and that accent, which, along with the spectacles, became his trademark. Doing rep gave him lessons in the star's gift of getting noticed, and the actor's craft of hiding in plain sight. "In rep it's a different play each...
...Nicholson called with a co-starring role in the dark gangster film Blood and Wine, and Caine's golden years kicked in. He galloped from the sleazissimo agent in Little Voice to the kindly abortionist in Cider House, from the beauty-pageant Svengali in Miss Congeniality to a dead Cockney remembered by his friends in Last Orders--winners all. (He also survived Mike Myers' idolatry of Caine's swinging-spy phase in Austin Powers in Goldmember.) Then came Fowler...
EXPLOITED JANITOR: (Dickensian, in a cockney accent) Please sir, may I have some more...
...Smiggin' sounds like Cockney slang for something unspeakable, not the site of the most prestigious sporting event in the world. But Smiggin Holes is a real place, a tiny town in the rolling hills of New South Wales just a few hours from Sydney, Australia - which, lets face it, has hosted what will probably remain the best Games of all time...