You're right, Fred, Holly Hunter is one of the few real Southerners in the movies! It isn't the accent that bothers me, it's just the sound of her voice. Maybe it vibrates on a frequency my eardrums find irritating, I don't know.

Julia Roberts is from Georgia, but you wouldn't know it.

Genie, we have a state senator here in Tennessee, who is a Real Southerner, and my nickname for him is Senator Leghorn. He really does talk that way! And he's not the only one. Most of us, though, sound more like the actress who played Ainsley on West Wing. She's real, too. :-)

The thing is, there's more than one Southern accent. Some are more immediately identifiable than others. And some actors have an ear for accents, while others don't.

Something I still think is funny, is that English accents are still used in movies about non-English-speaking Europeans. I know, it supposedly comes from the early actors being trained in Shakespeare or something like that, but it still makes me snicker.

Don, I liked Valdez is Coming, it was just hard for me to get around Burt Lancasters white-ness. And of course my favorite line is "You tell them.... Valdesssssss isss cominkk..." 'Course, back then, white men played Indians too.