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Donald Campbell as Lyle does a creditable job conveying the good intentioned fool's inability to comprehend Teddy's evil, and he manages the only consistent hick in the play...
...That'll Be the Day palls only when compared point-blank with the original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck-toothed charm to the script's dramatic moments. Maybe the real Holly was someone else entirely, but Busey is certainly...
...Another year has passed in which the movement has registered no notable influence on the formative ideas and ideals of American culture." There is little Evangelical leverage in the great universities or communications outlets. "How often do you see a born-again Christian portrayed on TV except as some hick?" asks Philip Yancey of Youth for Christ...
...this reviewer grew up on the plains of Kansas, and although she hates to cop out on questions of social relevance, she figures that the playwright wouldn't set any store by the understanding of a Midwestern hick. For Horovitz the Bronx seems to be emblematic of a couple of delinquents hazing an uncomprehending immigrant and each other on a street corner after everyone else in town has scurried into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth...
...member she wishes to push aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the anti-busing campaign last year. Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away...