Word: hunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this CD superproduction, Atkins is one of many guest stars, including Vince Gill, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the unavoidable Billy Ray Cyrus. On Romeo the achy-breaky hunk emits a self-mocking libidinal growl while a female chorus ogles his beefcake and Dolly purrs, "I may not be in love/ But let me tell you,/ I'm in heat." (The Romeo video got Parton caught in a cross fire between publicity and piety. No surprise: publicity...
Then Beauluc, Duke of Hazarde (Steven Lucado) appears out of nowhere (literally). Diana is certain to fall for this Nordic-looking hunk of inbred manhood in tights. And so the plot thickens, as does Beauluc's strained Southern accent...
Morgana has one problem--she must get Diana to marry Galahad. With the help of a dragon, she concocts a love potion--"Number 9...0210"--that transforms Diana into a randy teen nightmare, throwing herself onto like, that big hunk, like, Galahad...
...easier when the storytelling is as confident and plainspoken as it is here. Unlike, say, the recent mini-series Queen, Dr. Quinn is hokum without an agenda, other than re-creating some old-time TV pleasures. The town characters -- a naive telegraph operator, a good-hearted prostitute, a smoldering hunk who hangs out with a pet wolf -- are colorful in the innocent, pre-Bochco sense of the word, and the series has sweep and moral heft. (For the opening credits, the screen is even masked at the top and bottom to simulate a CinemaScope epic...
...season's revival of the similarly smarmy On Borrowed Time did), and most are not written by Hollywood veterans whose creative credits number Pretty Woman, City Slickers and A League of Their Own (plus, it must be admitted, Laverne and Shirley). For that matter, most do not have TV hunk Tony Danza (Taxi, Who's the Boss?), making his New York stage debut as a hoodlum. (For important plot reasons, he is supposed to be about 27, but Danza looks a dozen years older...