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...parody -- gimmicks and overkill -- it errs on the side of politeness. The satire is too meek, there ^ are too many dead spots and blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...
Boasting a mere four students, The Mountain School is not a school at all, but a ranch. There are no teachers, no classrooms, and no tests. And all the pupils happen to be brothers...
...Drew Colfax '90 and brother Grant Colfax '87 never attended elementary or secondary school. Instead, they grew up on the Shining Moon Ranch, raised goats, did chores and studied on their own. Because the Colfax parents found the local schools unsatisfactory, they registered their ranch as a private school...
Back on the ranch, Grant raised goats, wrote articles about them and entered them in shows. In order to win, Grant says he had to do a lot of select breeding of certain lines. Voytas attributes Grant's interest in genetics and applied science to his hands-on experience...
Besides paying homage to Wilson, True Stories also tips its dude-ranch ten- gallon Stetson to, among others, Glass and Meredith Monk, who choreographed the film's opening and closing tableaux. Byrne and Wilson will collaborate on The Forest, conceived as both a live opera and a film and scheduled for a Berlin premiere in 1988. Glass and Wilson joined forces on Einstein, the work that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson...