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...SINCE IN THE HEAT OF THE Night has a good ole cracker had a culture shock like the one Earl Pilcher Jr. (Robert Duvall) receives in A Family Thing. It comes in the form of a deathbed letter from the woman he has always believed was his mother. In it she tells him that though he looks, acts and thinks white, he is half black, the product of a union six decades ago between his father and the family's African-American maid, who died giving birth to him. His adoptive mother's last wish is that he find...
...PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
HOSPITALIZED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, country-comedy fixture for 20 years on TV's Hee Haw and 50 on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry; for complications of a stroke; in Nashville, Tennessee...
...nemesis--plain 'ole bad luck...
...reporters. A prime example is a minor strategy debate between the characters who represent Al From, the head of the Democratic Leadership Council, and Frank Greer, Clinton's first media adviser. I have known Greer for 20 years, and I can testify that Primary Colors captures his Southern good ole boy diction with preternatural precision. Who but a campaign staff member could have known that Greer's influence began to wane the second Clinton saw him as too much the orthodox liberal Democrat...