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Connolly--a well-known gadfly who gave interviews last week wearing a fishing cap and seated in front of a human skeleton he keeps in his office--says he learned about Bush's D.U.I. through a round of old-fashioned small-town gossip. According to Connolly, an elderly man seeing his chiropractor had mentioned that he was in a courtroom on a D.U.I. charge 24 years ago and that Bush had been there too. The chiropractor, realizing the significance of that news, called a Democratic public official in Portland. And that official--whom Connolly won't name--told Connolly...
Sherman-Palladino wrote earlier for Roseanne, which shares Gilmore's honest, flaws-and-all mother-daughter relationship. And Roseanne's John Goodman stars in Normal, Ohio, which echoes its predecessor's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner (That '70s Show) conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man (The Odd Couple without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show...
...show's male admirers may have loved watching three pretty women solve crimes in skimpy clothes, but I was obsessed with it for another reason: all I ever wanted was a job. In 1976, other than my first-grade teacher, every woman of my small-town acquaintance was a housewife or a widowed housewife. The Angels not only had jobs, they had jobs within their jobs, often going undercover as hotel maids or race-car drivers or roller-derby players. And they were friends. That was the life I wanted, getting paid to do projects with your favorite people...
...Connolly - a well-known gadfly who gave interviews last week wearing a fishing cap and seated in front of a human skeleton he keeps in his office - says he learned about Bush's DUI through a round of old-fashioned small-town gossip. According to Connolly, an elderly man seeing his chiropractor had mentioned that he was in a courtroom on a DUI charge 24 years ago, and that Bush had been there too. The chiropractor, realizing the significance of that news, called a Democratic public official in Portland. And that official - whom Connolly won't name - told Connolly...
This first feature by Green, just 25, will evoke memories of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (the rapturous weirdness of small-town life) and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (a tough girl's narration, set to gorgeous cinematography). But this kid doesn't need famous parents. It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision. And it has, like each of the children in it, a restless beauty that haunts their lives and the viewer's heart...