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...Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland. Says Purcell: "It's because she writes for herself that her plays come out so true. What we're seeing is her vision, pure and simple...
...Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening. He also played a laconic, streetwise piano player in a handful of movies, including To Have and Have Not and Young Man with a Horn...
...started with this whorehouse over by La Grange-lil town, sleepy as a ole hound in the August sun, 'bout halfway 'tween Austin and Houston. The place was listed in the tax books as Edna's Ranch Boarding House, but everybody called it the Chicken Ranch. Well sir for sump'n like 80 years the Chicken Ranch was a place a man could call home whenever he needed to get outta his own house. Cowboys, cotton pickers, state senators, the Texas A&M football team, your more adventurous visiting clergy-they all come to Edna...
...Playboy magazine-and course they know all 'bout bein' clean and dirty at the same time-they ran a story on Edna's Ranch by a fat, bearded journalist called Larry L. King. Larry's a good ole Texas boy, and he was none too happy seein' one of the state's noblest traditions tore down, like they'd turned the Alamo into a soccer stadium. So he visited La Grange and wrote it all up. Called it "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
...knowed it, some other Texas boys and girls took Larry's story and made it into a genuine Broadway show. They had singin' and jokin' and jes' enough carryin' on to keep the folks comm in and the vice squad out. They had bad ole Marvin Zindler high-steppin' through his favorite den of iniquity like a virgin bride navigatin' a field of cow chips. They had Sheriff T.J.-they called him Ed Earl-and Miss Edna-they ailed her Mona-lookin' longingly at each other from th' opposite sides...