Hugh’s Back Home!
Thanks for giving me the weekend off guys - we had a huge birthday party and then finally got the Christmas tree up! I finished up my Christmas cards and came down with a cold just to top everything off :). But a good nap seemed to have made things a bit better. Now, on to the important stuff - House news! Go down past the pics for information about someone who is COMPLAINING about Hugh Laurie!
Hugh has definitely returned back home - how do I know? Because the paparazzi tracked him down yesterday hanging with his son. I think that this is Bill, his 16 year old son. The two were seen hanging in London. How great that he finally gets some time with his family!!
In other news, Hugh is being criticised! Yes, criticised!! NW sent me a link to a site called the Blue Pencil. This was written by a person who caught their first site of House, which is great! Everyone needs to watch House at least once, right?! HOWEVER, this person is complaining about Hugh’s English!! WHAA?! Okay, Hugh Laurie speaks beautiful English, and he manages to pull off an American accdent extremely convincingly! So what does this writer have to complain about?
House says to his team: “I send you out for exciting new designer drugs–you come back with tomato sauce.” Such an accomplished actor would not make the obvious to-may-to vs. to-mah-to mistake (thank you, George and Ira Gershwin, for so many things!). But his word stress gives him away: instead of the American to-MAY-to sauce, Laurie says to-may-to SAUCE. It’s just not plausible. I suppose a New Englander of a certain generation - think Julia Child - might conceivably use the British stress, but not combined with the American vowel. And House’s character is in the middle of Jersey, where the Julias of speech do not commonly roam freely.
You’re complaining because of the way he says tomato?! Are you serious?! This is a man who manages to sound EXACTLY like an American and you’re complaining because he says one word differently? Tomato, tomat-oh, let’s call the whole thing off, okay!?
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December 10th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Do you know where the pictures were taken? It sure doesn’t look like London to me, rather like the Hollywood Hills, don’t you think?
Second, I think I’ve got info to share (I’m being proud now ;-): This is Charlie, not Bill.
And third, did you notice Charlie’s shoes have different colours?
Keep up your good work in finding pics and news! Thanks a lot.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I was thinking the same, I never saw any hills like that around London…..
December 10th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
OMG.
This is what he has to complain about???
I’ve heard Hugh’s English accent creeping in a few times. But compared to the other Brits acting over here, he does an excellent job.
I haven’t hear him say Paasta once, LOL.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:00 am
I’d suggest the person who critisies Hugh’s american accent to do the better job (sic!)and try to talk at least as good with british accent…
July 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I think the real problem is that the critic misunderstood the sentence form; the terms being compared are “drugs” and “sauce”. The adjectives are unimportant. Hugh says it that way (like anyone should, English or American) because it would be very strange to ask someone for medication and have them bring you… sauce. Of any kind.