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Happy End, a musical currently revived by New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater, is really a larky 1929 gangster movie. The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Charles Levin) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Elizabeth Parrish...
...James Bond movies like From Russia with Love and Thunderball to his credit. Maybe these names were all rented for the occasion, as camouflage. The evidence on-screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash in on the cracker-violence genre pioneered by Walking Tall. Come to think of it though, The Klansman lacks that certain Snopesian gusto. All it has is a drag-tail rankness. ·Jay Cocks
...grapplings with this most enigmatic of great American leaders. Now we are once again in the presence of a figure too compassion ate, charitable, humble and wise to be quite credible-the commoner as saint, but with the sanctity cleverly humanized by just the right amount of self-deprecating cracker-barrel humor...
...that may sound icky and derivative. But ten or 20 pages along, the author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go. Fields relates how Jayell Crooms marries the snotty "brass cracker" Gwen from Atlanta, how the sinister Doc Bobo, Georgia's answer to Papa Doc Duvalier, proceeds toward his doom. Rich and full of color, character and moral drama, A Cry of Angels is an authentic cry of American innocence uttered just as the bulldozers knock down Tom Sawyer's whitewashed picket fence...
...with the world he grew up in after he came back to Greenville from an idyllic education at Sewanee, in Europe and at Harvard Law School. His father, LeRoy Percy, ran for re-election as a U.S. senator and lost to the notorious James K. Vardaman, an archetypal Southern cracker, in a bitter campaign; the defeat sent the Percys scurrying off to Europe to lick their wounds...