Northern Cities Shift in the movies

[Matthew Gordon]

I hope you got some useful replies to this offlist.

A couple of actors come to mind:

Dennis Farina, who's currently on Law and Order and has done some movies, is
a fairly shifty Chicagoan (at least for the low vowels in the NCS).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001199/

Robert Forster, who was in Jackie Brown a number of years back and in other
stuff since, is also fairly shifty and IMDB tells me he's from Rochester NY
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001233/

On 8/17/06 5:34 PM, "aallan at AOL.COM" <aallan at AOL.COM> wrote:

> I've been asked if there are any recent movies with characters who exemplify
> the NCS. Any examples?
>
> (Or did we discuss this a while ago? If so, I apologize for the repetition.)
>
> - Allan Metcalf
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