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RHINESTONE She (Dolly Parton) is a country singer itching to escape from her predatory manager. He (Sylvester Stallone) is a Noo Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing...
Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism...
DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...
...Vermont's 18th century constitution, are a remnant of the hostility toward lawyers that many of the original colonists brought with them from England. That mistrust persists to this day. Vermonters are fond of pointing out to strangers that in the Green Mountain State's peculiar twang, the word lawyer comes out sounding like "liar...
...that the U.S. is more likely to launch a nuclear attack than the Soviet Union, she adamantly opposes U.S. foreign policies. Is she biting the hand that fed her? More likely, perhaps, Unking two hands together. For Kelly thrives on eclecticism. She alternates a Bavarian inflection with an American twang, warm private gestures with eloquent public harangues. When detractors brand the Greens as a youth party, Kelly points to her colleague and frequent traveling companion, her 77-year-old grandmother...