Kidman and Paltrow and accents (was Skewed Australia & Ms. Kidman)

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

David wrote re: Gwyneth Paltrow:

> I think she's American, er, that is, US American.

Yes.  Her parents are both American and she was born in LA.

> Our kids' television often has the British presenters doing 
American 
> accents.  These are just as excruciating as anything thrown at us 
> across the Atlantic

Oh dear.  Maybe I don't want to go to London and meet y'all after 
all.  You'd all be sniggering at how I talk ("Listen to those r's!  
They really talk like that!").  But that's okay--when I was in 
England, I couldn't suppress the thought that everyone was trying to 
sound like Monty Python characters just to put me on.

Amy