fake American dialects (Society Listserv?)

[Marc Velasco]

for such actors, disregarding their speech, and focusing only on their
dress, would they be considered cross-cross-dressers?  perhaps double-cross
dressers, a la 1984?  or, by simplifying, and eliminating negating
modifiers, would they merely be dressers?


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> At 10:50 PM -0400 6/23/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>  One of the better jobs (imho) of a fake American accent was English
> actor
> >>  Dominic West off of 'The Wire.'  He's not merely pulling off 'generic
> >>  American' but doing a passable job at the subtle Baltimorean dialect.
>  One
> >>  episode in series 2, he had to pull off a local Baltimore street cop,
> trying
> >>  to imitate his idea of a British accent.  Has anyone else ever had to
> >>  pretend to be themself?  I'm sure it's happened before, but I estimate
> it's
> >>  rather rare.
> >
> >Not that but somewhat parallel: Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria,
> >playing a female impersonator.
> >
> and there's a long tradition of the reverse--male actors (e.g. in
> Shakespeare's day) playing female characters who are pretending to be
> men (as in several of the comedies).
>
> LH
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