julie andrews seems to be unable to do any accent at all!!! i remember she said that it took her months to be able to do eliza's accent.
audrey hepburn always sounded so posh. although i would never find fault with anything she did, i was surprised that she was chosen to play the girl in breakfast at tiffany's. the girl is supposed to be from southern usa, and audrey sounded so RP all the time. like john van tiel, i was exposed to a lot of prejudice against american english in my youth. the only acceptable variety in this country was RP. even today prospective english teachers must attend phonetics laboratory sessions 12 hours a week for 4 years to acquire an RP accent. and very conservative RP, at that: no glottal stops allowed! wally, in my head making this e-mail sound as if eleanor roosevelt were reading it.
