Word: rednecking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear ya, O.B.! He did a couple more country tunes from other people and twisted and grinned and showed with his voice what the most doubtful of those lyrics really mean. He made jokes about how people didn't often get him confused with I forget what other (redneck) star who has a similar name. He led into his version of Elvis by telling how Elvis came up one day in a pick-up truck from Tupaloo and said "I wanna make a record," and now, he said, even Charlie Pride got to say MR. Elvis...
...more comfortable behind the wheel. But even the various automobile stunts begin to lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate slaps him down. Along this weary route some good redneck ambiance has been provided, especially in a couple of roadside joints-all smoke, neon, parched customers and deadening good times...
Actor Rod Steiger, 48, has made a name for himself in strongman roles as Napoleon in Waterloo, Al Capone in Al Capone and the redneck police chief in In the Heat of the Night. For his latest megalomaniac, Steiger has shaved his head and lost 45 Ibs. in order to work with Italian Director Carlo Lizzani on a movie (being shot in English) tentatively called Mussolini... the Last Act. Newsreel flashbacks of the real Duce strutting and posturing at the height of his power will be interspersed with scenes of Steiger playing Mussolini during the last four days...
...brand of unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results than those more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier, ice-cold corporation-leader. Different in temper, intellectual dispassion and self-exile of this kind is nonetheless the same in faithful service of an unjust social order. Less explicit in form, it is no less brutal in its operation. Covered with ivy and pronounced with low-key, understated...
...long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon be in prison. When the younger man finds out that all this is only a casual redneck ruse, he sets fire to Dance's skiff. There is only one riposte to that act of war: Dance promises Skelton a speedy death if he ever tries to guide in the Keys. Skelton orders himself a skiff...