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...films of what influences them to write. The others expose their own arts and become all too obvious as they write about the process of writing. Llosa and Skarmeta portray writers-at-work who pace back and forth creating poetry and writing and erasing the multiple climaxes of a trash novel...
...Well, I don't think so officer...." Three seconds later, we were all spread-eagle against the patrol car, the german shepard slavering at us through a thin wall of glass. Paper bags, Coke cans, Doritos and other trash flew onto the highway as Officer Redneck searched our car, finally producing one, sole, empty can of beer...
...literally, the end of the world. And before it became a nation, this orphan continent on which European history had left no mark at all became the site of a bizarre and dreadful social experiment. For almost a hundred years, beginning in 1788, it served as a human trash heap where England exiled some 160,000 members of its criminal class...
That macho slogan is the centerpiece of an imaginative, aggressive campaign to convince litterbugs that it is anti-Texan to trash. Aimed at "deliberate" litterers, 18-to-34-year-old men who are unmoved by threats or appeals to civic duty, the "Don't Mess" theme has struck a chord with Texans' sense of defiant pride during tough times. Celebrities such as Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds rock group have appeared in radio and TV spots, and the slogan is being proclaimed on bumper stickers, T shirts and even beer-can holders. Best of all, the campaign...
...become a sad-sack elegy. The events that Henley and her cast pumped life into on Broadway have lost their juice. What went wrong? Is it that the intimate conversations, the teasings of Southern- gothic catastrophes, the colloquial bitchery ("She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash"), the climactic conciliations -- all of which seemed fresh, if not downright impudent onstage -- play smug and stilted on the big screen? Or has something precious been lost? When does a faithful, almost literal adaptation turn into a genteel lynching of its source...