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...last time around, and we have a little wine nearly every night. She said she thought voting dry was the Christian thing to do. You see, it's a Bible Belt problem. It's spiritual. You need something to flay like a horse. You need a devil you can identify, say you've seen, and call by name. We call the devil whisky. I wish somebody would do a psychological study...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...
Jackie is aided in her pursuit of stardom by her enterprising 14-year-old cousin Angus, played by Ross O'Donovan, an impish devil with Charlie Chaplin looks and an impeccable comic sense. Never to be found without his copy of Sexual Symbolism, at one point he accuses his grandmother of penis envy; his devotion to his cousin hints at the charmingly incestuous. So much for youthful innocence...
...hallmark of the original Sting was its ragtime piano theme "The Entertainer," which sums up the irresistible devil-may-care attitude Newman and Redford brought to life. Though unbelievably canny, the characters in the original seemed extremely vulnerable; the risks they were taking appeared real. The sequel contains a multitude of tricks, but lacks the force to raise any of them to such reality. The background music for Sting II is appropriately the famous piano rag--mutilated in an adaptation...
...wonderful life, crowded with friends from T.E. Lawrence to Ava Gardner. Seymour-Smith embraces them all in garlands of Graves' verse, notably "The Devil's Advice to Storytellers...