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Dick Van Dyke's "Mary Poppins" Cockney, widely regarded as hilariously bad
About the same time as the Dick Van Dyke effort there was a widely used British version of a generic American accent that was perhaps equally humorous, combining a sort of rough approximation of a Texas accent with a rough approximation of a New England accent. There was a character in the movie White Nights who had that accent. He was supposed to be an American Embassy official who was from Minnesota. Interestingly, after a one week long trip to Russia in 1994 everyone seemed to have that accent back here in the States. The master of accents is, of course, Tracey Ullman, but she doesn't do accents, she does people and the people have accents.
Robbie Williams [white](the musician, not Robin[/white]
Robin Williams (of Robin and Linda Williams) *is a musician.
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