Word: kristofferson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson) is the narrator of Songwriter; a drawling Austin maverick, he prepares to relate some of the more bizarre moments in the stormy country music career of Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson), singing poet-turned-mogul...
...session, groupies, tour bus talk, and deal-making-and breaking. And the image of a corrupt dise jockey (Rip Torn) who insists. "Payola isn't dead down here--it's not even sick" is candidly refreshing. Although the music segments in the film do not match Nelson's or Kristofferson's "real life" shows, they do impart a pleasant, down-home charge of energy...
...tool Nelson plays Doc flawlessly: that is, flaw fully: wrinkles, thick headedness, and all. Lined by years of tequila nights and bloody mornings. Nelson's face is perfect for his role. In Songwriter, his fifth movie. Nelson exhibits such case and warmth that the special chemistry he strikes with Kristofferson redeems the more mediocre soundtrack...
...Kristofferson writes and performs several driving good time tunes here, but his charm is most impressive in the casualness with which he delivers such lines as "The only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...
...chameleon, for Barbra Streisand's persona seems constantly to change, if not every morning, at least with the times. And certainly with the trends. The lyrics are from her new album, Emotion, and to promote it she made her first video, which debuted last week (with Kris Kristofferson, 45, as her unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features La Streisand as a vampy songstress in an Edward Hopper-style nightclub...