Word: farmboy
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...royal bride-to-be, drawn from and adored by the commoners, prepares to wed a prince she does not love. Sound familiar? It is a subplot of The King and I. Like the woman in the famous musical, Princess Buttercup (played by Robin Wright) yearns for another, a farmboy whom she thinks is dead...
...instead of a farmboy's quest for career maturity, the movie is more a day in the life of a working Boy Wonder. Yuppies could take notes on Foster's business sense as he pours over corporate reports, works late nights, and brashly persuades stodgy, old executives into backing his bold initiatives. He is even a swift jogger in a coat...
...primitive anthropology that explained why. The easiest convert was the old gunslinger himself--the untested theories gave presidential candidate Ronald Reagan more ground than the traditional hymns to patriotism and loyalty allowed him to stand on. But the most coveted was a young congressman from Michigan, a midwestern farmboy with strong sensibilities for justice and equity a college radical from the 60s whose ideological fervor refused to mellow into complacence but vented itself on the task of finding new solutions to the old problems...
...libretto, adapted by stage director J. Scott Brumit, offers a good gauge of the show's tone, which teeters between the stylized and the awkwardly colloquial. "Ah, Adina," sighs Nemorino, the rejected farmboy. "Why, why must it be this way?" and she answers. "What a question...
...Jose Wilker), a tacky magician impresario. With him is his lover Salome (Betty Farish), "the Rhamba Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from one poor village to the next hawking the worldly pleasures of vaudeville to a public more likely to pay admission...