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  2. English-language accents in film - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s, dialect coaches became significant in the film industry as more filmmakers began employing them to train actors to speak in accents. The Los Angeles Times described the general training approach, "It's a process that involves repetition, studying audio- and videotapes, visits to locations where the characters live, along with breathing and vocal exercises."

  3. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

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    Movie First appearance Notes "I'll be back" Terminator: The Terminator: 1984 [note 6] [note 7] "Hasta la vista, baby" Terminator: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 1991 [note 8] "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore: Apocalypse Now: 1979 [note 6] [note 7] "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Rhett Butler: Gone ...

  4. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...

  5. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

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    Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...

  6. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the long history of ‘sexy baby’ voice on ...

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    The most popular example of the sexy baby voice comes from a 2011 episode of “30 Rock” that centers entirely around the phenomenon. Cristin Milioti plays a guest writer on the fictional sketch ...

  7. Call and response (music) - Wikipedia

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    Hear for example the recordings entitled "Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons" collected by Bruce Jackson on an Electra Records recording. [4] Call and response are widely present in parts of the Americas touched by the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The tradition of call and response fosters dialogue and its legacy continues today, as it is ...

  8. Don LaFontaine - Wikipedia

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    LaFontaine lent his distinctive voice to thousands of movie trailers during his career, spanning every genre from every major film studio, including The Cannon Group, for which he voiced one of their logos (he also voiced the Viacom closing logo in 1990, simply saying the company's name after it had been formed on the screen). For a time ...

  9. Karen Carpenter - Wikipedia

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    Over the years, it has developed into a cult film and was included in Entertainment Weekly ' s 2003 list of the top 50 cult movies. [127] On January 1, 1989, the similarly titled made-for-TV movie The Karen Carpenter Story aired on CBS with Cynthia Gibb in the title role. Gibb lip-synched the songs to Carpenter's recorded voice, with the ...