Comments on: Eli Stone: “What happened to your accent?”

By: THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC

THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:17:16 +0000

Hey man, philosophy majors have a future.

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:54 +0000

alienman – I don’t watch Las Vegas. I guess I’ll try to catch it to see what you are talking about in regards to Polly. – John

By: alienman

alienman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:07:13 +0000

hm, wow. maybe i should give this show a try. I don’t visit this site all that often, usually b/c I keep forgetting about it, but it looks like you’ll have me back soon BTW have any of you 8Asians watched Las Vegas lately? You’d be horrified with Polly, the Korean salon lady. Truly a step backward.

By: yoko

yoko — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:45:58 +0000

Lee in East of Eden is one of my favorite characters.

I do like that clip from Eli Stone. I recently read a similar zing on Nikkeiview about an episode on Bones: http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2008/01/14/a-jones-for-bones/

I don’t watch much TV these days (working too much), but these clips make me feel like I should get back into it.

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:30:33 +0000

John Steinbeck wrote essentially the same dialogue (but longer) for his character “Lee” in East of Eden – the story is set around the turn-of-the-century through WWI, so the Chinese butler speaks ‘pidgin’ English, but once his trust of one of the white characters builds he lets down his guard and reveals that he’s more American than the Irish immigrant he’s talking to, and a college graduate to boot, but that since white people expect pidgin (and don’t seem to understand when he speaks normally) that’s what he speaks. Just FYI.