Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunbelt attitudes toward women are hard to define; what you tend to forget is that Scarlett O'Hara was one tough old bitch. Barbara Jane Bookman, secure in her looks and her money, might have to take a lot of grief from her stud football-playing buddies, but by God, she should give as good as she gets, and the film never captures the uneasy jocularity that is a necessary part of sexual tension in the South. Even though Clayburgh's daddy supposedly owns the team. She melts like a dime cup of ice cream...
...supporting cast is fine, considering what they had to work with. Robert Preston as Big Ed Bookman is a blustering, stupendously stupid man; as played, the millionaire owner of a pro football team probably couldn't pass a driver's test. He has his moments--asking God in the Super Bowl if since he's a sinner, God is going to fuck him. Clint Murchison of the Cowboys has probably done that, albeit silently. It would be nice if owners were that dumb; the throwback owner of the Giants, Wellington Mara, probably is but not the Murchisons, Hunts, and Robbies...
Camus presents the characters in Bahia as "God's poor--that is, they are completely poverty-stricken, but rich in friends." They live in a squatter village near the beach, outside the normal realm of the world. They are always happy: always dancing, never hungry, never worried about what tomorrow will bring. This is a myth, after all; if Curio (Paco Sanches)--who wears a clown's makeup and sighs constantly after blondes--is slightly unbelievable, well, so is every other character in Bahia...
...convert concedes that many readers will remain skeptical. "People may think I'm kooky, but this is what happened," he says. "It's not a publicity stunt. I have asked God for forgiveness for anything I have done to hurt anyone. I've been all the way to the bottom. There's only one way to go now, and that's up. I'm going to be hustling for the Lord...
...intents and purposes, "Silk Degrees" was Scagg's first album--the one that established him as a high-fashion god of blue-eyed soul in the ears and minds of the record-buying public. The question then became, could he do it again, and do it as well...