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...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...
...paced as the desert drive in Raiders of the Lost Ark-and almost as violent. More important, they suggest a dimension of conflict within as well as between the antagonists. Will Tod escape not only the surly Chief but his old friend, now a deadly nemesis? Will Tod defend Slade, who has sworn to kill him, against the attack of a huge, ferocious bear? Will Tod and Copper ever be friends again...
...Here's the thing," a man from Burgaw County, North Carolina, is telling me. "It weren't like what people think." Burgaw is blue mold and cinch weed country and the guy's name is Slade. Just Slade. "That's enough anyway," says Slade. He's about forty and nowadays he grows tobacco for a living...
...Slade's got this conspiratorial whisper when he's talking and he leans close to you. "You see, it wasn't all that razzle-dazzle that you read about in the paper. Hell, we grew up with the man." Slade is hanging back from the limousine; leaning against a wall. "It wasn't that at all." He speaks like he's letting you in on a big secret. "Look, when you're doing factory work and you're a kid--now this was cannery work, mind you, and they wouldn't allow no radios in the plant...
...situation is only aggravated by weak leading performers. A large star is needed to bend the Wedekind/Breuer universe around her; instead, Lulu is played by Catherine Slade, who walks through the play as if it were a cold reading. For three hours she fails to project either innocence or perversity; there is a lot of mugging and a lot of whining, a lot of effort but almost no success. Physically, she is virtually inert, although she seems graceful next to her leading man, Frederick Neumann. Neumann does wonderful things with his voice, and his vocal virtuosity is put to good...