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...enough Southern spice and authenticity to keep the film original and diverting. Rudolph has captured a convincingly real sense of the offstage lives, complete with amiable wild-man behavior, recording session, groupies, tour bus talk, and deal-making-and breaking. And the image of a corrupt dise jockey (Rip Torn) who insists. "Payola isn't dead down here--it's not even sick" is candidly refreshing. Although the music segments in the film do not match Nelson's or Kristofferson's "real life" shows, they do impart a pleasant, down-home charge of energy...
...performs several driving good time tunes here, but his charm is most impressive in the casualness with which he delivers such lines as "The only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...
...there were certainly strong hints that things had changed. The ships' store was torn down, reduced to bare ruined choirs in a matter of days. The loudspeaker system that once called residents to the phone was dismantled. Within a week, Steve Coe had been fired, with the explanation that he wasn't "a ball buster." ("In all those years, he was only late twice," said Bobbi Pluhar, with tears in her eyes.) Then transient mooring rates were nearly tripled. The permanent residents were never told what to expect, but they began to fear the worst...
...Gloria's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody of the child in 1934 and won. In the best account of this celebrated trial, Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1980), Journalist Barbara Goldsmith argued that a greater anguish lay below the ten-year-old's fear of being torn from her home in some Solomonic decision. "I was afraid she would take me away," Gloria had testified, ". . . do something . . . then IT will happen." Here, Goldsmith theorizes, the girl was subtly conscious of the second most famous child of '30s headlines, the Lindbergh baby, who had been taken from...
...plot explicity follows Candide's love affair with Cunegonde, which initially is torn apart by her percents score of his social positions. The lowers' attempts at reunion, simply put make up the rest of the plot, carrying Candide from war, to the wrath of the Inquisition, the New World of South America, and taking Cunegonde from her sedate home-life t, the life of an exotic whore, to a harem. Leaving the intricacies of the plot to the audience and to the realm of fantasy, the overall consistency of performances commands much respect Meredith's Candide is amazingly native...