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...recorded in Nashville, and in 1978 Jennings and Nelson won a Grammy for their duet "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." In 1979 his "Greatest Hits" album sold 4 million copies. (And who could forget Jennings' theme song - and narration - for "The Dukes of Hazzard...
This is no cuddly bear like the past three--all of which lasted less than three months. To find this kind of sustained drilling you have to stretch back to 1981, when the last vestiges of stagflation were being driven from the system along with The Dukes of Hazzard. A new generation is being introduced to the disheartening pattern of lower highs and lower lows...
...quiz failure George W. Bush was embarrassed when he couldn't identify Sex and the City to Glamour magazine--and today's TV listings. In a season that's already seen two Partridge Family movies, this month's sweeps movies revisit The Brady Bunch (twice), The Dukes of Hazzard and Diff'rent Strokes, the latter a production even Gary Coleman has refused to be associated with. (Fox hasn't made it available for screening, so this critic can only assume it's a tour de force of storytelling magic!) In part, this nostalgia vogue is a demographic no-brainer...
...celebrating TV history, these revivals tend to smooth it over. CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.), which brings the Duke boys' story up to date, is the same Southern-fried minstrelsy that makes the series a hoot to remember but excruciating to relive. But worse, by making Bo and Luke allies with Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane and deputies Enos and Cletus, the movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods...
...surfboard which ran diagonally through the interior. Kid Driver's precious board travelled in a silver cushioned bag. (He later told me the surfboard cost more than the car itself.) Once I managed to close the door, he hit the gas and we pulled onto the pavement, Dukes of Hazzard style, with a plume of dirt behind us. I fastened my seatbeat...