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Chase Winstead's Curious 'Non-Regional Accent'?

posted 18 years ago by Attillio
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I understand that "The Giant Gila Monster" was filmed around Dallas, Texas back in 1959. Most of the actors in the film (Chase's mom and his younger sister, Missy, and all of Chase's friends and their girlfriends) DO sound like actual Texans.

However, Chase sounds as if he could have grown up in Chicago (or Hartford, Connecticut for that matter) instead of Texas. What gives with Chase's unusual patois? (Maybe Chase developed a "non-regional accent" just like the New York City/Morningside Heights-born comedian, George Carlin, did, when that great American curmudgeon first worked as a radio disc jockey?)

[–] gnome-5 17 years ago

According to a thread on actor Don Sullivan's IMDB page, someone who interviewed him says that Sullivan grew up in Idaho, then moved to California.

[–] tracyfigueira 16 years ago

Could be. Californians have a non-regional accent. I lived in California until I was eight, I've lived in Texas since then, I'm forty-six, and people still tell me I don't have a Texas accent!

[–] Attillio 15 years ago

It's amazing how people can leave the greater New York City area for either a southern or midwestern part of our country, and after a couple of months, the former New Yorkers/New Jerseyans begin to noticeably slow down in their rate of speech (from a machine gun-like pace to a slow as molasses pace) and start "tawlking" instead of "tawking" as they used to out in either Long Island or in northern New Jersey.

However, if, say a south-westerner, comes to the Big Apple, he or she NEVER seems to lose their Texas accent. I remember former New York Met second baseman Ken Boswell (a native of Austin, Texas, I believe) who, in all of his years here with the Mets never lost his Lone Star State patois!

Yet, when Brooklyn-born, former big league third baseman Bob Aspromonte played for the then-Houston Colt Forty-Fives (predecessor of today's Houston Astros), Mr. Aspromonte stopped sounding like Tony Danza and/or Andrew "Dice" Clay of Brooklyn, and began sounding like the late, great Dan "Hoss Cartwright" Blocker of "Bonanza" fame.

[–] doelcm 13 years ago

I was born and raised in Texas and I don't have much of a Texas accent. My father didn't have much of one either.
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