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...like him. He was one of the first people who kind of stepped outside of conventional sketch comedy and commented on it in a way that deconstructed it in a silly way. At the time, the audience was split. "Oh, it's so stupid. He just called his character Cajun Man." And other people love it because he's making fun of the labored premises that sketch comedy has. Believe me, he knew what he was doing. He's an incredibly smart guy. I think he's hysterical. I think his movies - obviously he's constructed more conventional vehicles...
...halfway there. But it's not mere flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues is never too far away, notably on "Broken Hearted Road," and if the neo-Southern Gothic lyric stylings sometimes overreach...
Well, sure, New Orleans has its French Quarter, decorated streetcars, traditional Creole and Cajun holiday dishes and a spectacular candlelight Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. But what's really unusual about Christmas in the Big Easy is the bonfires that light the way for Pere Noel. Hundreds of towering fires burn on the levees so the jolly gent, who travels by boat, can find his way along the Mississippi. Just as parish and civic groups compete in the Mardi Gras parade, at Christmas they create fantastic forms--including replicas of boats and plantation homes--out of logs stuffed with...
...Swamp Fox--Ohio Representative Mike Oxley and Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin--held dueling parties during the week, bankrolled by many of the companies regulated by the committees. Both lawmakers drew on their personal traditions. Tauzin threw a mini Mardi Gras featuring Cajun cuisine, flashy beads and the New Orleans sound of the Neville Family Celebration. Oxley reached back to his love of early rock 'n' roll with a lineup that included Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon at the site of the old American Bandstand show, where his wife used to dance as a Philadelphia bobby-soxer. The immemorial Dick Clark...
Each has a safe seat in his home district, and both have raised funds aplenty to dole out as favors to the campaigns of other House members. So far in this election season, the Cajun has raised more than $8 million for G.O.P. candidates and the party, much of it through bayou-flavored luncheons for colleagues that net up to $50,000 each. Oxley has done better than $5 million...