Hilaria Baldwin, Hollywood and the Honor of Having a Boston Accent
Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn Boston we call it a “cucum-BAH.” This was my gut-check response to the Hilaria Baldwin drama that unfolded this past week, an event comprising themes ranging from cultural appropriation to canned phony accents and lingual disparities—“How do you say in English…cucumber?”—to blatant, old-fashioned mendacity. Pandemic lockdown ennui aside, it might seem pointless to unpack this social media soap opera any more than we collectively already have.