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...interesting idea that doesn't work very well. A typical day at a rural residence frames a report by a neighbor that "the vice-president's gone mad." Vice president of what we never find out, which is the point. No one shows real interest in the news. Mama sighs "I guess there's nothing we can do about it," and resumes doing her laundry. The song ends nicely with the narrator saying, "and I shut all the doors" but it goes on too long and becomes boring instead of conveying the boredom of rural life...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Dylan's Best Cellar | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

...more than 100 character portraits in TV shows and some 30 mostly mediocre movies from the mundane to the fascinating. Whether Dern played a mad doctor in Two-Headed Transplant, a hillbilly husband in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, a bi-sexual boy friend in Bloody Mama, he projected an anomie that was almost aggressive. Onscreen, he draws attention to himself in a curiously negative way, as if he were a marked man. Who else, for example, would allow himself to be cast as the only actor ever to kill John Wayne onscreen? In 1971, while Dern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Will Bruce Dern Become a Star? | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

This story about how a nice girl becomes a nice girl who is also a hooker is not one-sidedly sexist. it casually shortchanges both sexes. The only men in the film are Xavier's one-time fiance, an incurable mama's boy who cured her of marriage forever, and her clients, who ask to be whipped, stroked, licked, played with, or just listened to. However normal they may be at work and at home, they bring their neuroses and loneliness to Xaviera. She and her girls minister to their needs while passing knowing smiles to each other behind...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: The Prostitution of Prostitution | 8/8/1975 | See Source »

...wooden affair with a long, running mirror behind the bar, a couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat-faced stud...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...airline has supplied food and clothes, and Mills acts as the group's personal legal counsel, moral overseer and English teacher. He has also spent nearly $2,000 for clothing, food and toys. Says Mills, "I've been buying bras, baby clothes, milk and bread -playing mama for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A One-Man Relief Mission | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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