Gil, I will have to disagree with you on this one. I grew up close to Happy, Texas and did not find Mr. Northam's accent very true to form. The entire movie was ridiculously silly. In Happy, Texas, they would not put up with a couple of homosexuals for more than a few moments and the movies premise that they were somehow accepted is not true. Sure, there may be homosexuals performing the stereotypical tasks in towns like these but they don't come out and say they are queer. If so, not very loud. And if they do, they don't last long. The Texas Panhandle is the bastion of the Baptist, church of Christ, and Methodist churches. They don't tolerate this kind of thing. I wasn't privy to the town's public stance on this movie but I would bet money that the majority of the town was mortified by the movie and its content. \ One thing I have noticed in movies is that there seems to be a real problem for actors in distinguishing between a Texas accent and a Southern accent. They are not the same and many sound like Scarlett O'Hara as they try to sound Texan.
mack > No, most of them seem to master it fairly well. In recent memory Jeremy > Northam in HAPPY, TEXAS was great.
