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...Diving Championship in Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell Inc. is manufacturing a model Billy Carter Redneck Power Pickup Truck. Billy has appeared at Manhattan's "21" Club to push a peanut liqueur, and a Kentucky brewer is bringing out a new brand called Billy Beer, which the First Brother will hawk on TV. He has forsaken the family's peanut warehouse business, but stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Cashing In On Being Billy | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Carter Country, a rural police station in the Deep South comes up looking like a country-fried version of Barney Miller stuffed with crackers. ("Would you press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...devoted moviegoer, the nephew might have foreseen the all too predictable misadventures that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clearance Sale | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...commercialization of that image he blames on the media "about 95 per cent of (whom) would be on welfare if they weren't reporters," although he admits he himself has pushed the redneck idea "a little bit too far." In truth, he says, he is a good ole boy, not a redneck...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Good Ole Cult | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

Well a good ole boy...is somebody that rides around in a pickup truck--which I do--and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Good Ole Cult | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

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