People I Know


Director	Daniel Algrant
Selected Cast	Al Pacino as Eli Wurman
	Kim Basinger as Victoria Gray
	Ryan O'Neal as Cary Launer
	Téa Leoni as Jilli Hopper
	Richard Schiff as Elliot Sharansky
	Bill Nunn as The Reverend Lyle Blunt
	Robert Klein as Dr. Sandy Napier
	Rex Reed as himself
	Regis Philbin as himself
Producer	Robert Redford

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W.B.lbl 16th May 2021		Quote: Is there a homosexual accent? I presume Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils would count . . . ?



Twistin 3rd May 2021		LOL! Yep. Southern accents from Hollywouldn't are almost always wrong, they never reference any Southern tongue except for New Orleans (and even then, only the most overstated extreme.) If it's a cheap TV movie or something, I just roll my eyes, but when the major leaguers go there, I have to call them out. Of course the majority of the critics praised Pacino's performance; I must assume they've never been around a real bona fide Southern person before, either. One review I read stated that the character's accent was a mix of Southern, homosexual and New York. Is there a homosexual accent? And yes, all the examples you noted are one-size-fits-all token accents from an industry that doesn't get out much. ;-)



W.B.lbl 3rd May 2021		This syndrome of watching Looney Tunes or other cartoons to "research" regional accents is not confined solely to this film. There are quite a few evidences in the Murder, She Wrote series - episodes set in France apparently studied old Pepe Le Pew cartoons to get a French accent, anything set in Russia led to people watching old Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons with Boris and Natasha, and on and on. Oh yeah, the show must've drawn from the same Foghorn Leghorn cartoons for episodes set in the South, that Pacino apparently drew from for his role here.

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