Former roommates and teachers recall Gore's pronounced twang, as compared with the halting Middle Atlantic English he speaks today.
One example of Gore's love of the South sticks out in Somerby's mind.
One night in 1966, Gore, his roommate Tommy Lee Jones '69 and Somerby performed a play in honor of Somerby's grandfather, a 19th-century traveling showman.
Gore's role was to sell a mysterious elixir to the crowd. Somerby recalls he bought a frayed tweed suit and several bottles of "elixir" in preparation.
Unfortunately, Gore and Jones sampled the alcoholic brew before the play and were quite drunk by the time the curtain rose.
A responsive but confused audience of Wellesley College students then watched Gore and Jones tell tall tales of their childhood.
"It was totally a Southern show and Al and Tommy Lee were totally Southern guys," Somerby says.
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