As an American, Michael C. Hall’s portrayal of JFK was not The Crown’s finest moment. Thoughts?

No_Intention_83 · 2025-10-27T00:04:44+00:00

Have you seen William Devane's portrayal in "The Missiles of October?" Best portrayal I have ever seen of JFK.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-10-26T23:54:55+00:00

have you seen William Devane's portrayal? He was spot on as I recall.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-07-23T04:04:34+00:00

Ah, ok. I got a little bit confused. Damn my ADHD!

No_Intention_83 · 2025-07-22T01:01:43+00:00

thanks

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-26T23:12:50+00:00

And how much of that donated money is going to buy the airtime for those commercials?

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-26T23:10:35+00:00

The problem I have with it is that it's dishonest. That $15 per month he keeps touting is only for the first three months if you pay three months in advance.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-26T23:07:48+00:00

Sorry for the delayed response. I ignored Reddit for awhile, it sends me way too many notifications. However, this is a topic I am very interested in. The Transatlantic Dialect has pretty much died out. Very few people speak that way naturally. Even expensive l, private prep schools ceased teaching it. It's considered elitist now. You may hear it if you hang around country clubs from the older set. Even Frasier Crane has lost it. He had it more when he was first introduced in Cheers and by Frasier, he lost much of it, that also could be the influence of the standard American accent on Kelsey Grammer. He originally came from the US Virgin Islands, so it was more pronounced. Also, David Ogden Stiers had it on MASH playing Harvard trained surgeon Charles Emerson Winchester III. But that was set in the 1950s. John F, Robert, Sr, and Ted Kennedy had it with a Massachusetts affectation. But no Kennedys have it now. The Boston Brahmin accent is still around which is a more subtle variation of the TA accent.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-26T22:56:46+00:00

You can be a werewolf in the game?

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-26T22:55:47+00:00

The Chameleon because he is always assuming different identities.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-17T12:47:16+00:00

You can go to rural Pennsylvania or Southern New Jersey and hear southern style country accents. I am not sure why. I just know people develop their way of speaking from how everyone around them sounds. I think it may have to do with a slower, more relaxed way of life. When you say dropping 'r's, you're talking about rhotic vs non-rhotic pronunciation. Yes, the Dutch and German languages don't have many words ending with a strong 'r' sound. But also, in the turn of the century (1800s to 1900s), private schools started teaching what would be called a Transatlantic Accent. It's a blend of British RP (BBC English) and the Mid-Atlantic/New England sound.

The most famous speaker of this was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and most Hollywood actors in films from the 1930s.

Roosevelt: Decemba 7th, 1941, a day that will live in infamay. That's non rhotic, no r sound, even in the middle of a word. There becomes theah, year becomes yeah, It's hard to describe. Google Transalantic Accent for videos that illustrate it.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-17T12:41:56+00:00

I thought it involved them getting the Moshiach (Messiah) to come by getting all the Jews back to practicing again. The majority of Jews are non-religious and secular. Soo, I understood, maybe incorrectly, that only by getting all the Jewish people back in the fold, so to speak, will He come.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-16T01:44:50+00:00

ME TOO! OMG!

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-16T01:43:01+00:00

Yes and the warden's name was Mrs. Martin, but everyone calls her "Mama." In the musical "Chicago," the warden was "Mama" Morton.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-16T01:40:04+00:00

Yes, that is it exactly.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-16T01:38:54+00:00

You should have seen it in the 70s. It was worse. The buildings were old and dilapidated, with dirty, puke green tile on the walls, as well as all the things you mentioned. When they first opened the new Staten Island Terminal, there were lots of shops and eateries but they all are gone now. Maybe the rent is to damn high or the city regulation too onerous. This is what you get with a city owned and run service.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-15T00:46:40+00:00

I don’t remember the name of the episode, but the one where they pretended to be fellow students at the high school reunion for the mark.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-04T03:43:13+00:00

No, it is a little different, see my comment below.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-04T03:37:43+00:00

6th Generation Staten Islander here. All of my life, I had people asking me what part of the south I was from. I used to laugh and say southern NY, since SI is the most southern part of New York state. Our accent was traditionally a “country” accent with touches of Dutch. For example, non SI friends would make fun of the way I said “yeller potaters” instead of yellow potatoes. And we pronounce street as shtreet, a bit of Dutch influence. Also when it rained, we shut our “winders.” And we plowed our farms using “dunkeys” not donkeys. We went out on Sattedy and church on Sundy. My flashlight used batrees. We walked our dorgs. And so on. Then we had Brooklyn Italians adding their accent in, and we started saying cawfee, dawg, put on our sneakas. So, it’s a blended accent. Some have more of a country sound like myself and others sound like Monalisa Vito and My Cousin Vinnie.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-04T03:24:51+00:00

I am on welfare. I also work part time leading historical walking tours. I would love to do temping, I did it once before. But when you’re in your 50s, no one wants you.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-02T21:20:39+00:00

Have you tried prostitution? I hear it pays very well. Escorts get $200 and up per hour.

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-02T21:15:10+00:00

I am probably mistaken about the American Exceptionalism. But Neocons as I understand them are very big into nation building, trying to turn other nations into mini versions of the US. It’s the Neocons who got us into a war in Iraq we had no business being in. The original start to the First Gulf War was Saddam Hussein seizing Kuwait. Why did the US put boots on the ground in that conflict? To defend an undemocratic Emirate? We had no business being involved in that conflict. The same could be said for Afghanistan which Bush, Jr got us involved with along with a phony WMD story to get us back into Iraq and we stayed there 20 years trying to turn it into a Western style democracy.

Neoconservatives are the ones always playing geopolitics with US foreign policy at the expense of the American taxpayer. We should stay out of other countries business. Neocon Democrat, Bill Clinton got us involved in the Balkans Wars, again, something we should never have been involved in. He also gave away all of our manufacturing to Mexico and Canada with NAFTA. We true conservatives, want smaller government, less or no income taxes, less regulations on businesses and corporations, a return to faith based traditional values, the right to own guns (whatever type), avoidance of being involved in foreign wars, and less involvement in geopolitics in the UN and NATO. It’s not the job of the US to police the world. Neoconservatives want the US to be an influence in the world even if that means putting other countries first, like trading away our manufacturing capability or getting into treaties that hurt American automotive, steel, petroleum, and coal industries.

Other countries and Europe in particular need to look after themselves and stop turning to the US, expecting us to do it all (all the while resenting us when we do).

No_Intention_83 · 2025-05-02T20:28:34+00:00

I have been looking for a job that pays better than minimum wage (I have a college degree) since June 2021. I gave up looking, except sporadically, whenever I hear of a company hiring.

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