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...York Times, asserted, "Your edge in the propaganda war of peace was shot down when the Korean jetliner fell from the sky ... A new 'get tough' attitude in the West will hinder our efforts . . . You now have to decide if the Soviet Union really gives a whit about peace and, if so, how to demonstrate that...
...PORTER '28 lived and painted the breezy, cheerful life of American upper middle-class success. While his Bohemian colleagues debated aesthetics and dribbled random patterns of canvas. Porter patiently ignored abstract expressionism, rejected as incomprehensible the artistic movements of the fifties and set about depicting "things as they were." Whit an optimistic and impressionistic flair all his own, he faithfully recorded the comfortable little world of pleasant surroundings and relaxed people he knew and loved so well. As the title of the first major exhibition of his work, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, puts it, Fairfield Porter...
...anyway, wider recognition than he can get singing in roadhouses and passing the hat. He could also use a driver who can keep both him and his car on the straight and narrow until he can keep his appointment with a modest destiny. Seems as though his nephew Whit, a skinny boy of 14, but watchfully wise for his age and an ace wheelman, might fill the bill...
...pair's adventures on the road (accompanied most of the way by John Mclntire, playing Whit's grandpa) are more in the nature of inconveniences than high drama. There are encounters with a cranky bull and a mean-minded con man who owes Red money, an interlude in a cathouse, and, most persistent, a girl named Marlene (Alexa Kenin), who has all the spunk she needs to become the singing star she dreams of being. Too bad she can't carry a tune...
...than big talent or bold-stroke heroism, that Honkytonk Man wants to celebrate. If there is a certain amiable reserve about the way the movie states the knothead's case in its early passages, that only makes its conclusion the more gripping. For by the time Red and Whit make Nashville, Red is too sick to appear live on the Opry. His last chance to leave a legacy is to cut an album of his songs, and he almost literally sings his lungs out doing it. If there are any people left who doubt Eastwood's accomplishment...