Word: thalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, sure. What we have here is middle age, a ton of bricks anywhere, but a real stunner to Duane in Thalia, Texas. Life and geography have not prepared him for the existential blahs. He was a high school football hero of sorts in McMurtry's wry 1966 novel The Last Picture Show. Since then he has made a fair-size bundle in the oil business, but aerobic spending and the collapse of crude prices have left him ear-deep in debt, and sinking. He doesn't much care. He and his wife Karla are both good-looking and healthy...
...Angeles County Museum, who organized the film's first public showing; and Joseph Me Bride, whose barrage of articles in Variety cast light on the film's splendid achievements and sorry history. This week the hour-long documentary receives its theatrical premiere at Manhattan's Thalia theater...