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...love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph's even-tempered, lively direction raise the film above good of boy mediocrity...
Though the concept behind Songwriter has been kicking around since 1978, the movie never seems labored. Written by Nelson's good friend, novelist-screenwriter Shrake, the script freely betrays a real family and its affection for the musicians and the on-the-road-again way of life. Songwriter gives a taste of Austin, spirited style and music, along with a playful, rambunctious storyline. It is an avant-garde film of seething social commentary, Songwriter offers an example of smooth-talking Texan optimism...
...Stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, 44, who is "a regular celebrity groupie," says Writer Edwin ("Bud") Shrake, a former Dallas sports columnist. Harris is friendly with Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, ABC Monday Night Football commentator and TV pitchman; former Cowboy and Denver Bronco Quarterback Craig Morton, his onetime roommate; and country-and-western Singer Kenny Rogers. The broker's parties are known for "wall-to-wall girls, champagne, hot tubs and more girls," says Shrake. They were vividly portrayed in fictionalized form in the movie North Dallas Forty. Harris, who gave stock reports on Dallas TV, announced...
...BLUE Directed by JAMES FRAWLEY Screenplay by EDWIN SHRAKE...
Scenarist Shrake has provided some good, funky dialogue, and Frawley is a director who gives his actors time and room to move around in their parts. Warren Gates is exemplary as a factory worker enamored of the ancient Greeks ("They went around barefooted, wearing sheets and other comfortable things, and men could love each other and not be ashamed"). Lee Purcell fetching as his wife. Peter Boyle as a preacher with an interest in aeronautics and narcotics, and Ben Johnson as Mean John make a fine couple of Texas crazies...