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May 16, 2013 · If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent: Directed by Heather Quinlan. With Penny Marshall, Amy Heckerling, Pat Cooper, Alan Dershowitz. The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.
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- Documentary, Biography, Comedy
- Heather Quinlan
- 2013-05-16
This is one of the inferences to be drawn from “If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent,” a film in some sense betrayed by its title, because its purpose is to show how ...
May 16, 2013 · Steve Inskeep and David Greene report on a documentary film exploring the New York accent. If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent premieres Thursday night at the Art of ...
But even though you may not hear "toity-toid and toid" in Manhattan, you can still hear strains in Bensonhurst, Whitestone or Tottenville. Or you can have a look-see through our film. We've gathered some accent experts, official and non, to weigh in on what it means to tawk the talk in a city that may be slowly trying to quiet the noise ...
Then talk to me." She directed If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent, a documentary about the decline of many of New York's well-known accents.
Feb 2, 2015 · Quinlan was making a documentary about the New York accent—“If These Knishes Could Talk”—for which she had interviewed, among others, Pete Hamill and a Korean man who sounds like Robert De ...
Interesting. Entertaining, of course. A little choppy, perhaps, with little apparent structure or narrative flow. Kudos for using the accent to talk about New York issues like inequality, diversity, false nostalgia.
