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WHEN YOU COMING BACK, RED RYDER is a showcase for Marjoe Gortner. It shares much with the movie that introduced him. In the documentary Marjoe Gortner exposed himself as a rip-off travelling evangelist who gloated as he fleeced his followers. His sexual energy and charisma invited comparisons with Mick Jagger. Blue-haired dowagers fainted at his feet...
...also never too late to read or reread Waugh. His vitality, matchless craftsmanship, audacious imagination and stinging perceptions ("She wore the livery of the highest fashion, but as one who dressed to inform rather than to attract") have not dated. Like Charles Ryder, the painter hero of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh focused "the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism...
...president and the heads of the major movie studios and television networks discussing how to promote cancer awareness. Then Al Gore marched in with a rough cut of his own: a five-minute video of movie and television scenes in which the hottest stars - John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Winona Ryder among them - were smoking cigarettes. The 1997 power breakfast quickly became a food fight, with accusations of irresponsibility and censorship flying back and forth between Gore and the angry moguls...
Unfortunately, the other characters are not in the same league. Roger Lipson as Red Ryder is just not up to the demands of his role. Right from the start, when he sits at the counter reading Playboy, perusing the centerfold as if it were The New York Times, sucking his upper lip noisily and smoking a cigarette as if it were the first one he had ever seen in his life, he generally fails to establish himself as a convincing character. Director Leslie Rose obviously has no idea what a real redneck is like, and neither does Lipson. Throughout...
Thanks to some fine performances, this is an interesting, if obviously amateur, evening of theater. The cast does try very hard and its short-comings are due to inexperience rather than incompetence. Red Ryder would not be worth seeing for $3.50, but at the usual Ex ticket price--free--you might want to check...