my favorite is still the Navajo Indians who play everything from
Cherokee to Pueblo....
But they always speak in Navajo (and oh, the things they say)...

On Jan 10, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Douglas Deal wrote:

> Jean Spradlin-Miller wrote:
>> This is the problem with the portrayal of all Southerners on
>> television.  The producers are consistently narrow minded --
>> everyone speaks with either the "old plantation" drawl, or the
>> ignorant sounding "Tobacco Road" drawl.
>>
>
> Much of the time, to add insult to injury, southerners are
> portrayed by
> non-southerners. This makes the required "suspension of disbelief" all
> the more difficult, and can even ruin a whole show, whether on the
> stage, the silver screen, the monitor or the cell phone (not that MY
> cell phone can do anything special... just trying to keep up with the
> times).
>
> Oh well, these representations of real life will always fall short of
> the real thing. Instead of characters with implausible accents, we are
> surrounded by real people, who all have their own accents (mostly).
>
> Doug Deal
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