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21 Accents
Posted by Mark Graham at 9:15 AM on March 5, 2008
· Tonight, we point the viral video spotlight on aspiring actress Amy Walker, who gives us a delightful vocal tour of twenty-one different vocal accents in just under two-and-a-half minutes. If only this woman had been around to give Kevin Costner a few pointers before shooting Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves! [YouTube]
· Best Week Ever counts down the Top 20 stupid faces made by Patrick Swayze in Ghost. We're partial to numbers 11, 8 and 3. [Best Week Ever]
· A warning: those of you who haven't built up your tolerance to heavy pancake makeup jobs best avoid clicking to see these up close and personal pictures of Katherine Heigl. [Egotastic]
· Fortunately for Will Ferrell, kid reviewer par excellence Sexman liked Semi-Pro WAY more than Jumper. [YouTube via /Film]
· Nerdy boys who came of age during the late `70s and early `80s will surely shed a few tears when they learn that Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away earlier today. True story: a young Uncle Grambo once mailed a manuscript for an adventure that a friend and I concocted to his Lake Geneva, WI home (unfortch, we never heard back). Regardless, we'll be rolling our 20-sided die and pouring out a mug of mead tonight in his honor. [Vulture]
· Tonight, we point the viral video spotlight on aspiring actress Amy Walker, who gives us a delightful vocal tour of twenty-one different vocal accents in just under two-and-a-half minutes. If only this woman had been around to give Kevin Costner a few pointers before shooting Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves! [
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F-Bomb-Fanny
Posted 2:38 PM 5/3/08
That is fucking shocking. Besides the fact that it offends pretty much every region of folks she tries to impersonate, any mediorcre second year acting student could eat a cup full o' crap and atill get more castings than she will. Good luck honey!
F-Bomb-Fanny
hughman
Posted 2:38 PM 5/3/08
i am from the south. "walker" killed the whole thing. listen more girl.
hughman
Benny
Posted 2:38 PM 5/3/08
I refute that that is an Australian accent. Not bad considering the butchering it usually recieves... but no.
Benny
BlackladyfromNetwork
Posted 3:02 PM 5/3/08
Holy shit, is there nothing Kenneth Branagh can't do?!?!?
BlackladyfromNetwork
kandyjaxx
Posted 4:48 PM 5/3/08
I pretty much believed all of them, until she claimed to be from Toronto . . . and then I didn't believe any of them. If she'd said "Gander, Newfoundland" I was going to clap. But the TDot? . . . uh, nah.
kandyjaxx
Glass_Family
Posted 6:26 PM 5/3/08
Brian Atene eats this bitch for breakfast.
Glass_Family
fembot
Posted 9:56 PM 5/3/08
I thought toronto sounds like Minnesota..whatever
fembot
secretagentman
Posted 12:27 AM 6/3/08
I'm sorry, what was your name again? I kid. Some of the accents weren't bad, but a couple were atrocious. Has she no one in her life who cares enough to tell her this is not a good idea?
secretagentman
Kdoggy
Posted 3:49 AM 6/3/08
Amy does the best accents I've heard period sans her Brooklyn. She has some skills. Especially after hearing the South African accents by What's his name who played Howard Hughes and Renee Zellwanger or whatever her name is butcher the southern accent in that movie she did that I never saw. Dick Van Dyke's cockney in Mary Poppins was pretty piss poor as well.
Kdoggy
remedialwhino
Posted 3:49 AM 6/3/08
Toronto was defiantly wrong, but I'll let it slide cause I'm a Canuck and too polite to say DAMMIT why do we always get grouped in with the newfies (eh)?!
remedialwhino
TraderJoesHo
Posted 4:13 AM 6/3/08
she should have first learned to not overpluck, then work on the accents.
TraderJoesHo
emberglance
Posted 4:38 AM 6/3/08
I call bullshit. This is a visual effect - I've seen a big green giant simper like Marilyn Monroe using this kind of software. You scan the girl's face into the computer then run a film of someone else through it. That doesn't sound very technical, does it? Anyway, look at her mouth in between accents. Something not quite right there.
emberglance
SanFranBetsu
Posted 4:38 AM 6/3/08
She's no Meryl Streep! She's just awful!
SanFranBetsu
fembot
Posted 6:28 AM 6/3/08
one of the greeting card companies lets you do that online - e greetings, you can make your own picture talk with funny accents. or in my sad pathetic life; my cat..(though he is cute with a british accent)
fembot
sexydecoy
Posted 8:59 AM 6/3/08
That Toronto accent was ridiculous. That was 'stereotypical Canadian', the kind that no one actually speaks. eh.
sexydecoy
faire-la-moue
Posted 9:28 AM 6/3/08
Godammit, the British can't even speak French in English!
faire-la-moue
Miss d
Posted 4:57 PM 6/3/08
I know afew Aussies who would turkeyslap her for that...
Miss d
Sulky Girl
Posted 4:32 AM 7/3/08
@hughman: Agreed. Daffy Duck did a more realistic southern accent in the 1940s. Thanks Mel Blanc!
Sulky Girl