Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...careful: it might be America's new pest, the Asian tiger. First discovered in the U.S. nine months ago in Houston, the mosquito can transmit dangerous viral infections, including dengue fever and the La Crosse virus. The tiger has since been found in three states besides Texas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee...
...that I'm down on Americans, you understand. They're mostly good and almost normal once you git to know 'em. I'm never too down on Americans or too up. This ole raft of ours has covered a heap of territory since that Mississippi ride, and I seen too many changes, too many wars, to feel much like flag wavin' or flag burnin'. One thing I come to know is that bein' alone makes you 'preciate the help of others when you need them, and makes you 'preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans...
...hits the road. Fields, Beresford and the rest have come to North Carolina for the filming of Beth Henley's movie version of her Pulitzer-prizewinning stage play Crimes of the Heart. On Broadway, Crimes was a simple, one-set, six-character kitchen comedy about three eccentric sisters in Mississippi. Shot here (Mississippi was rejected, perhaps because it looks too much like North Carolina, perhaps because Studio Head Dino De Laurentiis has his headquarters 45 minutes away, in Wilmington), the film version will cost about $9 million, a low number by current accounting...
...dogged takes are going on, has been occupied territory since early May. It is a pretty and formerly sleepy little resort and fishing town, with a white clapboard church and live oak trees shading wooden houses with deep-set front porches. Town elders were unenthusiastic about becoming part of Mississippi, as the script stipulates, and having the town square blockaded. Then it was pointed out that the film company would spend a lot of money in town--$3 million or more is the current guess. Done. Once the deal was cut, the production company rented a fiber-glass statue...
...couldn't get me to shut up. I have so much fun playing her that sometimes I get carried away. Watching myself at dailies, I realize I have to pull it down." Keaton, still the lovable tangle of insecurities she played in Annie Hall, worried at first about her Mississippi accent, and says, "Phoo" or "Oh, no, no, no" to herself when she is not pleased with a take. Her habitual air of distraction seems to manufacture comedy, even off the set. In a Southport restaurant, she says, a local fellow asked her to dance, and she declined. "Why?" said...