06 Dec 2009 @ 07:53 
 

Peaches Geldoff – she speaks!

 

Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered ‘talking movies’ to the world, via (amongst other early ‘talkies’) the 1930 film Blue Angel, when Marlene Dietrich began speaking, one of the film critics in the audience uttered the words ‘Marlene speaks!’?

My, how things have progressed since then.

In nearly 80 years we have gone from a German actress speaking almost perfect English – a language she didn’t understand at the time, having learned her words phonetically – to this:

Press the play button and weep – 40s youtube clip…

Tags Categories: People watching Posted By: Brennig
Last Edit: 06 Dec 2009 @ 07:55

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  1. Susie says:
    December 6, 2009 at 09:53

    Wow! Eloquent or what? She has perfected “like”, no doubt about it. Perhaps she could use “twat” for her next favourite word?

  2. punctuation says:
    December 6, 2009 at 14:43

    If this was, like, Facebook I could, like, click on the Like button. ;-)

  3. The Merry says:
    December 6, 2009 at 21:22

    What’s not to like?

  4. Bulldog says:
    December 6, 2009 at 23:11

    In some circles, “like” is being replaced with “I’m all . . .” or “He/she goes. . .”

    As in:

    “And I was all, dude, I don’t use half of the features of almost everything I own.

    He goes, Heather, imagine that I am an award-winning French chef.

  5. Masher says:
    December 7, 2009 at 06:16

    Don’t like.

  6. Vicola says:
    December 7, 2009 at 08:35

    She’s like a complete like fucking halfwit who should be like taken off the like airwaves until she’s learned to like speak in proper sentences. Numpty.

  7. Shane says:
    December 11, 2009 at 11:48

    I saw the programme from which that was taken. It was hard viewing. Fearne Cotton proved herself to be patient, forgiving, quietly empathic, whilst the Peaches girl came across as a bit of a lemon, or even a bitter lemon… an altogether lost girl. A scene of her visiting ‘the office’ (Vogue or some such), emphasised her rootlessness and sense of aimless, fruitless wandering.

    Bit grim like.

  8. Brennig says:
    December 12, 2009 at 23:25

    Hi Shane, thanks for the comment. Your defence of Fearne Cotton took some swallowing, but I’ve decided to go with you because I didn’t watch the prog in the first place. Mind you, I don’t like Ms Cotton much anyway… Totally agree with you about La Geldof though!

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