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...younger incarnations—Coral in New York carried the superbitch torch that Flora abandoned, while Matt in New Orleans filled the religious vacuum left behind by Los Angeles’ Jon. This season’s cast is a near-replica of that of two seasons ago: country hick; young, rebellious girl; strong, independent grrrl; angry black guy; frattish asshole; manipulative bitch; non-threatening gay. One can almost see the casting directors’ audition checklists and hear the producers’ cackles as they eradicate all traces of personality deviation...
...opportunistic TV reporter is obsessed with his career, young women are obsessed with getting rich (except for the ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors, I'll go git it") larded with hick malapropisms--you know you're not supposed to like Little's mom because she calls Ricardo Montalban "Ricardo Moltenbomb." Pierre has a field day with the alienated apercus...
...Occasionally an Asian film will shoot a spitball directly at the colossus. In Im Sang Soo's Korean drama A Good Lawyer's Wife, the lawyer's ailing father tartly observes, "Voting that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from...
...worked for Jed (Buddy Ebsen, left). But CBS ran into trouble when protesters labeled the show a "hick hunt...
...nomination. Another Bush adviser says Edwards' charisma and experience as a trial lawyer enable him to confront Bush's coziness with business. Yet another views Kerry as the toughest potential rival: "The people who assume we can kill Kerry are the same people who thought Bill Clinton was a hick who couldn't win." They all but dismiss Gore. But then their boss is living proof of the power of low expectations...