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...First Family cultism is back in a big way. What makes Billy Carter and redneck power such a phenomenon is the same thing that brought his brother out of the peanut warehouse. Populism (which is the element Rifkin and Howard respond to) is only part of the story. Far more potent is the affected lack of sophistication. Being ordinary is fashionable and it doesn't matter that the manifestations of that ordinary style emerge in completely different ways in the two brothers--both ways work...
...brother could not be as a candidate or as president but which is popular anyway. In terms of image, the whole thing is a bit too neat--the moral issues on which the President is both so popular and so vulnerable are balanced off too perfectly by Billy's redneck routine...
...throw out the first ball on opening day. Well, I'm trying to get Billy Carter. He's my kind of guy." Bantam Books rushed into print a collection of Billy's tell-it-like-it-is shots from the hip. An embarrassingly thin volume, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter sells for $1.50, yet went through its first printing of 210,000 within a week. Billy had nothing to do with the book and even made some noises about legal action when he got wind of it. But the book did make...
Bates and Brown start their own troupe and try to break out of the minstrel stereotype. Their tragicomic wrangle with white impresarios, redneck audiences and onrushing bankruptcy is described in a metronomic pacing and rousing ragtime music. Indeed, if Director William Graham can be faulted, it is for his emphasis on song and dance rather than discourse. Hardly a scene passes in which Graham fails to have his cast hoof and puff their way through one more number. Still, this does not stifle the spirited entertainment or the sorrowful history. For TV viewers who suffered withdrawal pains at the conclusion...
...elect clomps around Plains, Ga., in cowhide ankle boots, blue jeans and flannel shirt. Brother Billy breakfasted (on grits and Pabst) at the Best Western Motel in Americus, Ga., last week wearing denims and a blue plaid shirt opened to reveal his new, post-election T shirt emblazoned with REDNECK LOBBYIST. Of course, to them and many Americans the gear look is an old look, something they have been comfortably wearing for years...