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Humbug to all these highfalutin scientific explanations of the eruption! With all the pollution we've caused, the good ole earth just plain vomited...
...raised eyebrow and a sardonic grin. But neither Bronco Billy, the new Clint Eastwood movie, nor Carny, which introduces Robbie Robertson of the Band to the Hollywood fiction film, has so much as a single irony up its workshirt sleeve. They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse. Add a couple of good buddies, a venal politician or two-and, most important, a little love interest to salt the stew-and the result is a movie...
...blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while perfect cakes baked in the oven in my Betty Crocker kitchen." She never made it. Instead, Daniell got hitched at 16 to a classically brutal good ole boy, divorced him and married upward to a dull architect, raised three children, had an affair with a "Famous Southern Poet," married again, a Northerner a decade her junior, left him for an extended orgy of Jack Daniel's, Quaaludes, dope, depression and her ultimate salvation, writing. Along...
...little more than catching men: "If a woman behaved correctly-that is, in a properly manipulative and feminine way-she would receive the rewards of a doting (and successful) husband, comfortable house, beautiful children, and freedom from the need to work for a living." There is also the good ole girl, "realistic and materialistic and loyal to the land. Being a good ole girl means standing by your man and not making waves. Good ole girls come sexy or pure, and in either case are respected by good ole boys. All the women in country-music songs are good ole...
...with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing, the audience has no choice but to root for her. Her early successes-in local honky-tonks, on radio and at the Grand Ole Opry-are thrilling because the movie has so carefully delineated just how hard she has worked and how far she has come to realize her showbiz fantasy...