Dialects in films

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:24 PM -0600 2/23/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>  Some of the cops in "The Fugitive" (the Harrison Ford version) have
>strong, strong Chicago accents.

...as does Dennis Franz, who plays detective (and now Sergeant) Andy
Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, just coming to the end of its multi-year run.
Unfortunately, he's supposed to be a native New Yorker, which his
vowels don't allow him to be.  (No reason they couldn't have had him
emigrate to New York from Chicago to begin with, but they didn't
bother.)

Larry