THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

A longtime comic views his craft through an academic lens

By James Sullivan
Globe Correspondent / September 14, 2006

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Why is it that no one in film and television can get the Boston accent right? It's a question that has vexed Quincy native Bill Dana, one of television's most familiar faces in the 1960s, for decades. (Full article: 788 words)

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