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I watched Wimbledon at the weekend. I should probably say ‘endured’ or ‘was repulsed by’, thanks to the concept of Kirsten Dunst pairing with Paul Bettany – something only slightly less off-putting than Catherine Zeta with Sean Connery in Entrapment. But watched is the word I shall use for the moment.
Only, I’ve see a few Kirsten Dunst movies in my time and for the first time, I noticed something odd about her.
She has an American accent.
When did that happen? Isn’t she English? In fact, I hadn’t noticed her having any kind of accent at all until now.
Anyway, it occurs to me she’s probably always had an American accent and I am merely party to an extremely odd phenomenon, one perhaps you might share, too.
It’s the idea – no, not even idea, but gradual acclimatisation to American accents so that they become the default accents for movies.
Did you watch the brilliant The Thick of It special last week (if you didn’t, let Marie explain why you made a mistake)?
Brilliant, wasn’t it?
I taped it – well, got Bastard the PVR to record it, which amounts to the same thing if he’s feeling generous. However, that meant I missed out on pressing the red button at the end to watch the complementary “Opposition viewpoint” bit on interactive.
Fortunately, the lovely Beeb have put it on their broadband site and you can watch it provided you’ve got RealPlayer installed. Hoorah!
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