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...film ends with a great shot. Blaze walks out of the state house where Earl's corpse lies, and the camera ascends to take in Long's old domain. Randy Newman's poignant song Louisiana 1927 -- a cracker's lament about a devastating flood -- reaches its apogee of symphonic paranoia with the line "They're tryin' to wash us away." Just then, the camera discovers the Mississippi roaring past, washing away Earl and his wily, wild, pre-TV tradition of Southern politics. What has happened down there is that the wind has changed, and for its last three minutes Blaze...
...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...
News Editor for This Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Chip Cummins '92 Ross G. Forman '90 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Stephen J. Newman '92 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Features Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Colin F. Boyle '90 Sports Editors: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: David...
...Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz...
News Editor for This Issue: Teresa A. Mullin '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Stephen J. Newman '92 Editorial Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Stephen E. Findley '91 Business Editor: Ray Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Karen J. Nishida...