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...music, however, remains the biggest factor in Hootie's rise. Cracked Rear View featured 11 strong, tuneful songs, with brawny guitar work, commanding percussion and Rucker's low, gruff, charismatic voice, which made it all come together. And despite the ebullient sound of the music, some songs were lyrically downbeat. Let Her Cry was about a love affair torn apart by drugs and alcohol; Not Even the Trees was a tribute to Rucker's late mother. Another song, Drowning, decries the flying of the Confederate flag above the South Carolina statehouse. Rucker has received death threats for singing...
...cast is perfect. Charles Levin knows how to play freaks. As the grotesquely funny Pa Ubu, Levin staggers around the stage as if he's broken his pelvis and cannot rotate his legs. "By my itchy dick" is his mantra. His gruff screams and almost Popeye-like facial expressions play into his wonderfully loathsome demeanor...
...kind of an unwieldy name, a lot of people are like" and here Natchez slips into a gruff voice, "'Skawhoozy and the Whatones?' We've had so many misspellings of that, we've had so many places have listed it as two separate bands...
...romantics--that she is ever faithful to him. As his mistress replies wearily, "That's probably what my husband says to his mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs. A good-night kiss from Marijo, some romantic music, and eureka! Loli discovers she has a genius for sexuality...
That dynamic is all the more surprising given the similarities between the two men. Born three years apart, each was the eldest child of a lively and worshipful mother; each tangled with a gruff stepfather. They both can produce elementary school teachers willing to testify that they each landed exactly where he always intended. Both are natural teachers, verbally promiscuous and deeply pragmatic. Both sacrificed everything for their public lives, but indulged themselves in their private lives: both are overeaters who tried pot and chased women. Neither served in Vietnam. And both own '67 Mustangs...