Date:  Fri, 29 Jul 1994 14:46:09 -0500

From:  "Timothy C. Frazer" <mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Forrest Gump



On Fri, 29 Jul 1994, Judith Rascoe wrote:



> BTW, if you want to see -- that is, hear -- an example of Hollywood southern

> dialects run amok, check out the movie _The Chase_ at your local video store

> (Not an easy item to find, but it is out there). It had an extraordinary

> cast (Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, James Fox ... and Miriam

> Hopkins!), and everybody seems to have made up his or her own version of a

> southern accent.

>

It seems like they do. I know there are dialect coaches out there; in

fact one gave a paper at ADS several years ago and has a book. Can't

remember is name but a have a clipping about him somewhere. But a lot of

these actors don't seem to have had much coaching.



Compare the Paul Newman Long Hot Summer (1957) with the TV movie (1985?)

w Don Johnson. Judith Whatsername, of course, is I think a real southerner

(she was in the TV version). Viz. gthe wpomen on "Designing women."