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...draw: big-time country-music shows, enough to fill 24 theaters every afternoon and evening, with stars such as Mickey Gilley, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Mel Tillis and Reba McEntire, several of whom have moved to the area and own the theaters in which they perform. Nashville may still be the capital of country music, its recording and publishing hub, but Branson has become its Broadway. Says Mel Tillis (Heart Healer), who moved to Branson two years ago: "You go to Nashville, you see the stars' homes. You come to Branson, you see the stars...
...counting the plucky visiting geologist (Finn Carter), but it has all the social stratums a movie needs to make funky, glancing social commentary, rather in the manner of a country-and-western song. The entire upper class is represented by a survivalist couple (well played by Michael Gross and Reba McEntire) eager to employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four of them, is variously unaware, unconcerned and unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon...
...question is what kind of Johnny Carson the '90s will want. Hall, 29, attracts a relatively young audience and says he will have a "melting pot" of guests: "You'll see ((rap singer)) L.L. Cool J and ((country star)) Reba McEntire meeting each other." Sajak, who appeals to an older crowd, will have Barry Goldwater and Vanna White on one upcoming program, and hopes his show's 90-minute length will allow time for more than the usual plug-happy celebrities. "I've always admired Paar's knack of finding witty, interesting conversationalists from the ranks of character actors, politicians...
...speaks with reverence of the greats -- Patsy Cline and Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and Jim Reeves -- but he has to be pressed to single out a contemporary. Even then, the answer doesn't come easily, and those he mentions -- like George Strait and Reba McEntire -- are straight, no-chaser country types. Growing up in Marshville, N.C. (pop. 2,011, right on the South Carolina border below Charlotte), Travis, with five brothers and sisters, got an earful of teen tunes, from Kiss to Clapton, Led Zep to ZZ Top. "My brothers and sisters, people I went...
...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...