I wanted them to roll over, speak, feed themselves and walk unaided – anything that showed they were becoming more independent.
More than half of the immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador age 5 and over speak English less than "very well".
Women recruited at the New Orleans site needed to have lived in the New Orleans area before Katrina, be 18 or over, speak English, and have access to a telephone.
Women in Baton Rouge needed to be 18 or over, speak English, have access to a telephone, and not have had a severe exposure to Katrina (defined as being forced to evacuate or having a relative die).
The voice-over speaks, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of "the last man".
In this case a boy, in whispered voice-over, speaks directly to God, whose responses are characteristically oblique, conveyed by the rustling of wind in trees or the play of shadows on a bedroom wall.
The filmmakers' intervention — whether by way of editing, titles, or voice-overs (spoken by Simone Signoret and Yves Montand) — is more modest, more recessive.
"I think women tend to over-speak sometimes," she says.
It's a voice-over spoken by an angel, narrating the WWII experiences of the protagonist, George Bailey.
It was also referred to in the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise as part of a voice-over spoken by Picard, Kirk, and Archer.
