Article 499 of alt.tv.commercials: Path: mri-gw!psinntp!psinntp!uunet!in1.uu.net!panix!not-for-mail From: firehead@panix.com (Elayne Wechsler-Chaput) Newsgroups: alt.tv.commercials Subject: Carol Kane!!! Date: 9 Mar 1995 17:06:46 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3jnu5m$j9d@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Yes, yes, yes - the latest AT&T commercial has the baby-voiced darlin' herself!!! Better than Jerry Stiller, even better than the totally over-aired Ray Walston (as cool as that was the first, second, even third time...)! I know I'll get tired of it soon, AT&T is nothing if not incessant, but it's great to see that face and hear that voice! "I don't wanna rat on my friends" - precious! (And the actress who plays the AT&T operator holds her own pretty well against Kane, too...) - Elayne -- "I am de Head of de Fireheads. I am de Head Firehead. I am de #~~ Firehead Head..." (E-Mail me for more information about the )#( official Firesign Theatre newsletter, Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal!) ( # ) ^^^ Article 512 of alt.tv.commercials: Path: mri-gw!psinntp!psinntp!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!emerald.oz.net!bbyun.oz.net!user From: bbyun@oz.net (Dark Penguin) Newsgroups: alt.tv.commercials Subject: Re: Carol Kane!!! Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:46 -0800 Organization: Ministry of Fear Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <3jnu5m$j9d@panix.com> <1995Mar14.194702.87794@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bbyun.oz.net X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24.0+ In article <1995Mar14.194702.87794@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, phenry@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Paul H. Henry) wrote: >Help me out here, folks: for years I've been trying to figure out how >to describe Carol's adorable speech impediment. It's not as simple as >an "l/r" defect, but what is it? (If I can find a woman my age with >the same speech impediment, I'm going to marry her.) A highly nasal baby voice is the best I can do by way of description. Of course, that doesn't sound very pleasing, but I think Carol's voice is kind of an acquired taste, anyway. I think it's the nasality that does it, plus a throaty quality not unlike that of Kathleen Turner -- yet which can easily hit the higher notes. Also, she slurs a little bit...sometimes she sounds positively drugged. Regards, Bryan Byun e-mail: bbyun@oz.net -- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. -- Tacitus