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"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
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(Tenured Radical)

Saturday, January 01, 2005

THE NEW YEAR'S JUST BEGUN,
AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS
OF ENGLISH PROFESSORS ARE OFF
TO A FLYING START.



"Reading Carson McCullers paperbacks and quoting everyone from George Sand to Molière while swishing through the house with a terminal hangover in a red paisley dressing gown, his white hair stuffed into a cowboy hat, his gut hanging out of his underwear and his fat, hairy feet overlapping the sides of his dirty sandals, he’s Truman Capote with the vapors. What some call flamboyant bravery others dismiss as too much ham for the salad. But conjuring memories of my own student days in the bayou belt, I recall English professors on Southern campuses who were the spitting image of everything Mr. Travolta says and does in this film."


----- From Rex Reed's review of A Love Song for Bobby Long in The New York Observer.
Posted at: 1/01/2005 08:42:00 AM