Word: hazell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connor's comi-tragic novella concerns one Hazel Motes, the son of a preacher, a young, little-educated Southerner confused about religion. Haze is a preacher, too, but not of any church of Christ. In a South obsessed with Jesus--JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he tries to rebel by founding his own Church Without Christ and immersing himself in sin. His is a church where "the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." He is humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep...
...born in 1962, and he was left at the hospital by his un married mother. Eventually a childless couple gave him a home: Len was a truck driver, amateur inventor, and-so it would seem- full-time saint who immediately opened his heart to the boy; his wife Hazel took some persuading. That was accomplished by Terry him self, who, despite his deformities, was beguilingly bright and witty. Always poor, often unemployed, Len nevertheless contrived a series of machines that enabled Terry to achieve some measure of normality...
...Shoulders is the dramatized saga of their triumph and tribulation. Its most winning feature is its lack of self-pity; these people do not cry, and they do not want the tears of others. Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench are more than convincing in the roles of Len and Hazel, but true honors must go to Terry Wiles, who plays himself. He has not acted be fore, but he could give lessons to many who have...
Wise Blood is about Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran who comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher...
...South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich