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This apparently means that songwriter Bill Doss, also of Olivia Tremor Control, is creating something between catchy pop tunes and continuous, trippy background music. As the disc shifts from upbeat cheeriness to Radiohead pessimism, each track blends into the next. Doss isn’t singing us distinct songs; he’s assembling a musical collage while keeping emotional distance from each track. The effect is intriguing, but the dreamy quality of the album belies its sunny theme...
...this gallery, add two miscreants from films opening this month: The Gingerbread Man's Dixon Doss, a wily Georgia eccentric who is sort of Boo Radley grown old and gone wrong; and, more important, E.F. ("Sonny") Dewey. E.F. is the Texas preacher in The Apostle, a complex, cantankerous drama that Duvall wrote, directed, stars in and--after all the studios turned down the $5 million project--paid for. This renegade Pentecostalist has the spiel and showmanship to fill a tent or a temple; when E.F. talks, people listen. "I'm a genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this...
BORN: Feb. 11, 1965, Louisville, Ky. EDUCATION: Harry Doss High School, graduated, 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Debbie; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Navy, 1983-87 OCCUPATION: Telecommunications repairman POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 33, Roanoke...
...production, and it is a serious one, is the clear lack of attention to convincing acting. The music of Faust is readily available on CD; we go to a performance to see the dimensions of meaning which are lost in a libretto. Unfortunately, with the exception of Doss, the singers in this Faust might as well be in a recording or a concert performance. Acting is reduced to mannerism, often-as with Marguerite's mincing
...charlatans to a business that is thus far unregulated under laws such as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Ron Dusek, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's office, warns that some companies have misrepresented themselves, or swallowed up-front fees and then done nothing. Agrees Wayne Doss, director of Los Angeles County's Bureau of Family Support Operations: "There are people without the appropriate backgrounds playing dice with other people's money." Debbie Kline, of the independent Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (aces), calls the private agencies "vultures." And aces president Geraldine Jensen suggests that anyone...