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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This biopic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of a sexual threat for Middle America. Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
Others argue that asking people not to buy lettuce is different from asking them not to buy a rocker's artistic expression. Ideas (carefully disguised) lurk somewhere in the lyrics. All the more reason to keep criticism of them free. If ideas are too important to suppress, they are also too important to ignore. The whole point of free speech is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This bio-pic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of cottoning to the sexual and class danger he held for Middle America. But Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
...time Great Balls of Fire alleges the demon rocker made that remark, plenty of people argued that for him the trip represented no more than a return to his roots, a visit with the home folks...
What gives the songs their staying power is their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another...