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Stephen Fry recently wrote "The Ode Less Travelled," a sort of beginner's guide to poetic form. Roger Day wrote: > That'll be Steven Fry who played Bertie Wooster. Of the two, it was > often thought that Fry would go further but no ... I'm not sure who > has the more English accent. Yes, it's an English accent, not British. > The British don't have an accent, unless it's Estaurine. It's > certainly not Welsh or Scottish or Ulster. It's like confusing > Canadian with American. > > House was OK in the first series, and most of the second. In the > second I think he started to run out of ways to abuse patients, either > physically (oh, let's kill the patient to make them better) or > verbally. > > House is really Sherlock Holmes in the hospital - House lives at 22b > Baker Street I think you'll find. > > Roger > > On 3/30/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Candice, we are fans, my wife & I, & I remembered when I first saw it >> that Laurie was British, a wonderful fool in the Black Adder series, as >> well as Bertie Wooster (& I can't rmember who played Jeeves, that is >> his name [at the moment], but he's been very funny as a therapist on >> Bones lately, with a very British accent, however). >> >> Yes: usually on British series, when an actor tries to 'speak American' >> s/he fails, but Laurie nails it. >> >> Doug >> On 29-Mar-07, at 7:15 PM, MC Ward wrote: >> >> > Does anyone else watch the tv series "House"? I was >> > astonished to read recently that the show's star, Hugh >> > Laurie, is a British actor who lives in London with >> > his wife and 3 children. Every other weekend he flies >> > to London to see them. I would never have guessed he >> > was British since he "speaks American," as he puts it, >> > so well. It's the hardest part of the job for him, >> > compared to, say, learning his lines for each weekly >> > episode. Only after he's gotten his lines down can he >> > concentrate on "translating" them into "American." >> > >> > If you don't know "House," try to catch an episode. >> > It's a wonderful show, especially thanks to Laurie, >> > who's obviously British-trained in acting and turns in >> > a spectacular physical performance week after week >> > (Sat. night at 11:00). >> > >> > Candice >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> > _____________ >> > We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love >> > (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. >> > http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 >> > >> > >> Douglas Barbour >> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW >> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 >> (780) 436 3320 >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> >> >> No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no >> symphony for the listener. >> >> Walter Benjamin >> > > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/