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In the New Yorker...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 22, 2017, 03:13:33 pm ---Evans once made a guest appearance on Daniel Boone (as the French playwright Beaumarchais--never mind!), and in the voice-over announcing his appearance, his name was pronounced "Maw-REESE."
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Evans played the Shakespeare-quoting villain the Puzzler in the campy 60s Batman series:
But, I'll always remember him as Dr. Zaius from the Planet of the Apes and one of the awful sequels.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 22, 2017, 03:18:32 pm ---Do undergamekeepers really say things like "Come without fail" and "We shan't never be parted"?
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Well, Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves) was a particularly talented undergameskeeper to be sure, saying winsome, lovely things like
"I wouldn't take a penny from you, I don't want to hurt your little finger, come on, let's give over talkin'"
and
"Stop with me, stay the night with me."
Now, here's another pronunciation for you, this time by Hermione Gingold--at 0:43
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsNm3rfZyCk[/youtube]
Gay Purr-ee (1962)
Interestingly, there's this aside:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermione_Gingold
Early years
Gingold was born in Carlton Hill, Maida Vale, London, the elder daughter of a prosperous Vienna-born Jewish stockbroker James Gingold and his wife, Kate (née Walter). Her paternal grandparents were the Ottoman-born British subject, Moritz "Maurice" Gingold, a London stockbroker, and his Austrian-born wife, Hermine, after whom Hermione was named (Gingold mentions in her autobiography that her mother might have got Hermione from the Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale, which she was reading shortly before her birth). On her father's side, she was descended from the celebrated Solomon Sulzer, a famous synagogue cantor and Jewish liturgical composer in Vienna. Her mother was from a "well-to-do Jewish family". James felt that religion was something children needed to decide on for themselves, and Gingold grew up with no particular religious beliefs.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 22, 2017, 03:18:32 pm ---Do undergamekeepers really say things like "Come without fail" and "We shan't never be parted"?
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Well, Robert Burns, the poet laureate of Scotland, was a farmer. In fact, he was called the Ploughman Poet.
Jeff Wrangler:
What is it about British gamekeepers?
Maurice. ...
Lady Chatterley. ...
Just wond'rin'.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 22, 2017, 04:08:37 pm ---What is it about British gamekeepers?
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They're 'earthy'? :D
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