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...Thomas, 36, Miami Vice also marks a career breakthrough after a variety of stage, screen and TV roles. Part Irish, German, American Indian and black ("I'm American gumbo"), Thomas writes poetry, markets a line of women's clothing and peppers his conversation with upbeat spiritual homilies ("If you love anything enough it will give up all its secrets"; "I replenish myself by giving, and it comes back"). Easygoing and exuberant, he is a sharp contrast to Johnson, who is described as meticulous and demanding on the set. "We're like night and day," says Thomas. "Don's like...
...costume and to wear a mask. One of the twelve rules he must obey is that he "shall not possess nor consume any beverage except as dispensed from the liquor wagon." All day he will ride through the country collecting chickens, rice and vegetables for a gumbo the womenfolk will cook back in town. The column will be halted frequently for beer and boiled eggs. A Cajun band on a wagon, relying heavily on fiddle, washboard, squeeze-box, guitar and triangle, will serenade him on the 15-mile ride. He will be accompanied by two "floats," unadorned flatbed trailers bearing...
...midafternoon the riders were listing seriously. All they had to do was make it back to Mamou still able to function minimally. There the girls would join them on the backs of their steeds, and they could have gumbo, and they could dance until midnight. The lesson seemed to be: get drunk, hunt chickens, eat well, kiss the dickens out of pretty girls, straighten your deportment the next day, assume your place among your fellow...
...month run in New Orleans a week ago is the city itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition-to give the $350 million extravaganza its formal name-is the worldliest of World's Fairs...
...always so, as one speaker recalled, reading reviews from nearly a half-century ago: "Clear as literary gumbo"; "Easy to read as a road sign way down on Miasma River." In 1946 a New Republic critic found Delta Wedding such tough going he did not finish the book. And Diana Trilling said of the same creation that she was vexed trying to determine "how much of my distaste" had to do with the work and how much to do with the culture...