Watched K19: The Widowmaker the other night, which was, as the name suggests, bloody awful. This was mostly because of the cod Russian accents churned out by both Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. I'm noticing a worrying trend (or maybe not a trend, 'cause it seems always to have been the case) which is big Hollywood actors not really bothering with their accents, but rather throwing in the odd inflection now and then to suggest foreignness. Like in (I just gotta say it again) "K19.... The Widowmaker", Ford would suggest Russianness through his pronunciation of "comrade", but that was about it. There was some article about celebs and accents in The Age on the weekend (in Sunday Life, I would imagine), and apparently Renee is currently the "queen" of accents, or actually prolly the princess, cause Meryl must still surely rule. I'd be interested, actually, to check out Evil Angels and see what she does with "1980s Australian". Apparently it sucked, but I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.