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...play, tentatively titled Bye, Bye, Verdi, is about what happens when "grand opera meets Grand Ole Op'ry," says Tolins. In it, "the Oprah Winfrey Company's funding is cut off, and it is forced to join forces with [Nashville's] Grand Ole Op'ry to fight Christian evangelist Holly Arethanthou, who wants to transform the opera house into a religious theme park...
...left. It reminds him, Fowler smiles, of the time he was marching in a small-town parade and heard an old country boy on the sidewalk growl, "That Fowler even looks like a liberal, don't he?" With its city-slicker vs. good- ole-boy flavor, the Fowler-Jordan race is in some ways a reflection of the Bond-Lewis contest...
...combination of heart throbs Lowe and Moore, the comic onscreen presence of Jim Belushi as Danny's beerguzzling good-ole-boy buddy and some great Ferris Buelleresque Chicago locations is certainly sufficient to safeguard the film's mainstream appeal. But if the only image that remains after the film is that of Moore and Lowe doing the deed everywhere from in the shower to on the carpet in front of Danny's double headphone stereo system to in a bean bag chair, you missed Mamet's point about relationships...
...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...
...GOOD GUYS aren't much more interesting. There's the requisite good-buddy-from-High School (David Caruso) who's been roughed up by Kerch and needs to be convinced by Billy that truth, justice, revenge and the American way can triumph over the odds. The good-ole-boy Sheriff (Paul Winfield) who respected Billy's Dad and hence is willing to look the other way when Billy and pal Eddie commit a string of crimes ranging from destruction of private property to grand theft to manslaughter in order to get their man, rounds out the posse...