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Back in 1976, when a fellow Georgian was elected President, the author sensed a sort of redneck renaissance in the making: "The assumption seemed to be, you weren't going to have to do anything except be Southern to reflect the Administration's glory. Persons wearing boots caked with South Georgia slops and pig dung were going to be whooping and rolling and snorting and dancing in the streets of Washington, slaughtering hogs and boiling up big vats of grits out back of the Sans Souci." But as the Carter era wore on, Blount felt betrayed. He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fine Red Dirt | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...producer and said you had this idea for a T.V. series--you have this crazy family from Georgia which moves into the White House. And the president of the United States used to sell peanuts, and before that he was captain of a nuclear submarine. And he has a redneck brother who owns a gas station and drinks ten sixpacks of beer a day. And he has an 80-year-old mother who used to be a member of the Peace Corps. And his 11-year-old daughter lives in a tree house. And one sister rides a motorcycle...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Art Buchwald: Portrait of a Sometimes Unfunny Man | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

...scene in Humanoids, a bunch of slobbering, obese rednecks surrounds one of the creatures and gorily beats it to death while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...scene in Humanoids, a bunch of slobbering, obese rednecks surrounds one of the creatures and gorily beats it to death while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...scene in Humanoids, a bunch of slobbering, obese rednecks surrounds one of the creatures and gorily beats it to death while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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