Here's an article that I thought was interesting, about racial miscasting in Hollywood (the mention of Marisa Tomei reminded me of it):
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/arch...iscasting.html
No doubt many, many of the movies there include horrible accents. And how could we forget Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
As for my accent -- it's pretty much generic Midwestern. It's annoying when people claim that Wisconsinites (and Minnesotans, for that matter) all have Fargo accents, because almost none of us do. Only those who live very very far north in Wisconsin and Minnesota (when I say north, I mean pretty much along the Canadian border) and in the U.P. of Michigan speak like that . . . the rest of us speak perfectly normally.
I'm sure all of us think it's stupid when people make broad generalizations regarding accents. Even I can tell that a Texas accent sounds nothing like a Georgia one . . . everybody else should be able to figure that out too.