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...Miami, a highly successful caterer and floral designer named David Harrison was ruined when word spread that he had AIDS. Old clients, even hospitals, suddenly shunned...
...nucleus of the band formed in Providence in 1974, when Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind...
Novelist Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and Sun Dog, has had 13 books published, but none of his 13 screenplays has yet been made into a film. "I've got a couple of million dollars for them, so I don't care too much," he says. Harrison maintains there is no stigma to having a lot of unproduced scripts. "Everyone knows that the screenplay is never the decisive factor," he says. "What counts is the deal structure, where something is shot, what stars are lined...
...passes the moviegoer's time in this fashion. You enter its world as you would the Robedaux family home in Harrison, Texas. Through the lazy air swirl names familiar to everyone but you, bits of gossip about people you may never meet. You will feel like an intruder unless you accept this film on its own stringent terms: as a home-movie reverie about people who are cordial but not awfully forthcoming. They were here long before you came; they will continue, at their own measured gait, long after you leave. Life is like that too --every human relationship demands...
...picture is not without incident. As World War I flickers through the Texas consciousness in newsreels and letters from the front, the people of Harrison wage a losing battle against influenza. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is anxious about being sent to the war; he sees conscription as desertion of his wife Lizzie (Hallie Foote), his infant daughter and the baby on the way. While Lizzie's winsome wastrel of a brother (Matthew Broderick) gets into trouble with gambling debts and a pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim...