Word: drive-in
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...leave the freeway: they live in trailer parks, and move on when the spirit moves them (or when the notoriously prison-like mortgages and other traps of these mobile home oases allow it); they take nourishment at roadside snack bars; they recreate at rest stops, zonk in at the drive-in. Route 9 is smaller time--it carves through heavy suburbs, and at the Village Green Miniature Golf mecca "the 19th hole," a wired blare-music pinball palace, the lights are blazing and it seems like the kids are worshipping all night. The other 18 holes are flawless carpets...
...Permitted, 6 to 3, drive-in theaters to show nonpornographic movies that include nudity, no matter what the distraction to drivers on nearby roads...
Since that is what the Dancekings dream of and since this movie is a kind of folk tale, W.W. is able to make good on his promise. Before that happens, there are adventures on the road, including some comical chasing around in cars, an inventive assault on a drive-in bank, and a testy love affair between W.W. and the group's lead singer (Conny Van Dyke). There is also a reasonably subtle examination of a shifting relationship between band and interloper...
...thoroughly for my taste, then holed up at the Kentucky Fried Chicken place by a pay phone to call Penny's go-between Jilly. There weren't many other places. A Spin-a-Pin six-lane bowling center, a few 7-11s, and the remnants of a destroyed drive-in movie screen torn up by a tornado while Gone With the Wind was playing, said Jilly. It's that kind of town. Sixteen churches, a tiny one-room newspaper and a loan office. The head shark, as fate would have it, is Penny's daddy. Everyone in the county...
...catching on quick, it's just like anywhere else. I heard another story about the Moonlight Drive...