Word: rednecking
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...There was Jimmy near the top of his high school class; Billy, by his own account, next to the bottom. Jimmy the Navy officer; Billy the Marine sergeant. Jimmy the Governor; Billy the gas station owner. Jimmy the straitlaced, born-again Baptist; Billy the laid-back, foul-mouthed redneck. Jimmy the President; Billy the family embarrassment...
Director Alan Rudolph, whose Welcome to L.A. examined the West Coast music scene from a perspective so distant it seemed almost Martian, has fashioned Roadie into a kind of live-action Road Runner cartoon and added the exuberant bad taste of Russ Meyer's redneck sex movies. Roadie has bar brawls, earth quakes, sloppy eaters, hair-rollered harridans, fire-engine-red panties and lots of loud rock 'n' roll. In its second hour, the movie loses some of this mad enchantment: Guest Stars Alice Cooper and Deborah Harry (Blondie) do not jell with Rudolph's genially...
...strobe-lit energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...
...very, very easy way out. It doesn't try to find a response to redneck machismo; nor does it try to find one to intellectual machismo. It doesn't acknowledge the real and pressing question of how intellectuals are supposed to stem the tidal wave of jingoism Carter is engulfing...
...spine of strong emotion, of pure innocence and instinctive cracker-barrel wit. Inside the shy and often childish teen-age girl there is always a glimmer of the powerhouse woman she would become. The craggy-faced Jones makes the most of a role that fully capitalizes on both his redneck swagger and salty charm. The supporting cast is also first-rate. Rock Drummer Levon Helm (formerly of the Band) brings flinty dignity to the role of Loretta's laconic but loving father, and Beverly D'Angelo (who played