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...event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...
...audience becomes oriented. Silverstein has written some riotous speeches here, the characters are gems, and now and then a line will be both starkly funny and horrible--as when the producer says to the Lord in mock prayer with the shivering contestant that maybe this poor, white-trash hick has only a 50-per-cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance is the best goddamned chance he's ever gonna get." But despite a superbly dark, sick ending the play is too predictably structured, the target too easy, and, compared with a truly political...
...rebaptized with a few drinks, a pizza, and a shower." Disdaining the private eye's code of resisting advances by female suspects, Warlock goes on an erotic tear. Mrs. Rabun, an art gallery owner, lures him with cocaine, and her friend Laura Fardel offers the glandular and empathetic hick a wealth of kinks. Rabun's son, far from being the homosexual his father said he was, is a tough fishing guide who nearly leaves a spluttering Lundgren for the sharks...
...greatest economic revolution since the New Deal? A new posture of international confidence? A reemergence of American morality? Naah. He sees bureaucrats running seminars on wasteful office management, secretaries seducing bosses for Elizabeth Ray-style autobiographies, and PR moguls trying to sell oppressive Latin American regimes to hick Congressmen. As long as the elite gather in dark Connecticut Ave. bistros to eat lousy steaks and exchange gossip, Buchwald will be in business, for that is his Washington...
CHARLIE McCOY, music director of Hee Haw, the syndicated hick TV program, said about his show, "It's the most important thing that's ever happened to country music...