{"id":71,"date":"2004-02-09T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:06:36","slug":"eugene_levys_ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/eugene_levys_ac\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Levy&#8217;s Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was having trouble pinning down the source of Eugene Levy&#8217;s accent in A Mighty Wind (2003) last night. Thought I&#8217;d nailed it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawth.com\/~desolate\/sprockets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dieter from Sprockets<\/a>, Mike Myers&#8217; regular SNL sketch featuring a German-accented, 80s avant garde talk show host. But that wasn&#8217;t quite as stilted as Levy&#8217;s portrayal of a mentally unstable, recovering 60s folk singer. Who Levy really sounded like is Canadian journalist and commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/onair\/personalities\/national\/murphy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rex Murphy<\/a>.<br \/>\nHighlight of A Mighty Wind: Levy&#8217;s post-folk solo album covers A Cry for Help and Calling it Quits. What would possibly get me watching Christopher Guest&#8217;s other mockumentaries, Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, is Fred Willard, who plays the talent manager in A Mighty Wind. Related news: Levy won a Grammy for the A Mighty Wind&#8217;s self-titled theme song, accepting the award saying: &#8220;This is really a shock. The songs aren&#8217;t real.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"levy_help.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/levy_help.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"266\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"levy_quits.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/levy_quits.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was having trouble pinning down the source of Eugene Levy&#8217;s accent in A Mighty Wind (2003) last night. Thought I&#8217;d nailed it as Dieter from Sprockets, Mike Myers&#8217; regular SNL sketch featuring a German-accented, 80s avant garde talk show host. But that wasn&#8217;t quite as stilted as Levy&#8217;s portrayal of a mentally unstable, recovering 60s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}