21.   Dan Aykroyd plays a menacing cop with a really thick Minnesota accent.

22.   Even after a half-century in the United States, most of it spent in Dallas, he still speaks with a thick Polish accent.

23.   Floyd has a thick accent, shaped by Hattiesburg, Miss., and refined by Louisiana, Texas, Idaho, and Iowa.

24.   George Segal, as the vaudeville impresario Martin Beck, turns up with a laughably thick German accent but good advice.

25.   He greets you with a wide grin and an accent as thick as country gravy.

26.   He really had a thick accent and you had to get by that.

27.   He still has a thick Long Island accent from growing up in East Meadow, N.Y., and his gray hair might be turning grayer through this tumultuous period.

28.   He speaks English slowly and deliberately, with a thick accent, in a deep voice.

29.   He was still the guy with the thick West Virginia accent, and winning at Malibu hardly counted as actual winning.

30.   He spoke in a thick accent of his native Nashville.