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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER- JANUARY 31, 2001 Ward Where Art Thou: P 1/ 2 STARS Wasatch County since 1988 654-1199 Visit me at www.wardleygmac.com/denise oe and instrumental virtuosity would even- up together in cate Americans about their musical her- the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where itage, it just might be the soundtrack album for this movie, on which appear Art Thou?, and the bodacious result such notables of past and present as the. comments Allison Krause of Union Station and the filmmaker 8”Swedish Cope Milled Logs* 5 Bed « 3 Bath ‘Vaulted Pine Ceilings* Large Country — Kitchen/Dining¢ 2.93 Log Fenced Acres 2 Car Attached Garage* Wrap Around Deck The picture’s picaresque journey introduces Pete, Delmar and Ulysses to . Ae baalian for — (New Orleans musician Chris nhai Thomas King); a blind prototype of the one-man radio station disk jockey and record producer (Stephen Root) who wax an@beams it to a far-flung audience; an eye-patched Bible salesman (John Goodman), who can be recognized under. his. Ku. Klux Klan hood because he needs only one eye hole; and the dandified gangster George (“Don't Call Me Babyface”) Nelson —§ (Michael Badalucco of TV’s "hillbilly Le a black guitar picker. named ‘Tommy Johnson Travels, the loopy May Oar Buildings $849,000 > talents are displayed throughout. discovers local talent, records it on hot Governors Jimmy (“You Are Sunshine”) Davis and country-singing flour salesman ' Pappy * O’Daniel, plus. the Faustian legend of Delta bluesman Robert oS Johnson.° | - ~' SECLUDED HORSE PROPERTY. and Preston populist traditions of real-life Southern White, ‘18 _ ieNet — es af SPLENDID PRIVACY | 1380 N. Valley Hills Bivd (Heber) ‘Immaculate 3,000 Sq.Ft. 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Everett McGill - ism evangel- be, eicidende the purity of Allison Krauss’s “Down to the River to Pray,” which wafts over the woodland and - vocabulary and a fixation with his coif- of the wanderers are suckered to a bend in the stream by the beautiful and strangely seductive “Didn’t Leave fure. (McGill’s penchant for pomade and hankering for hairnets are hilariously juxtaposed with Clooney’s cynical charm.). His saving grace is an aching. void where his divorced wife Penny (Holly Hunter) and their gospelsinging children used to be. — The trio has sworn to cover a few hundred miles in three days to recover a plunder of ill-gotten gain that McGill has stashed in a backwoods cabin, about to be swallowed by a reservoir’s waters. When the three white guys with prison haircuts break for the tall grass, Coens shackled to one another, the give us both barrels at once. The visuals—comedic flailing of arms and shuffling of feet (ludicrously invisible to the white guards)—are wedded to something more substantial, the — Coffee & Teas (who wouldn’t — (George Clooney), are fractious, foolish and fearless adventurers. Clooney does some self-parody here as a wiseassed know-it-all with a gussied-up calls sinners to baptism). And all three Nobody but the Baby.” —... Your neighborhood. book store. “Located right i in the heart of Heber Valley! . “A Store With Book Sense.” —435- 657-BOOK The singers, three wood nymphs, a rural reference to Homer’s sirens, are bathing themselves in the river. (“Streens.” the 103 East Main € aie Utah *# Monday-Saturday, 10 am—7 pm mythically astute Delmar calls them, after Pete is enchanted right out of his overalls and appears briefly to have been changed into a horny toad.) The most mesmerizing - soundtrack is mouthed by themselves at the roadside where—for pocket change Pete and Delmar music on the the fugitives radio station, — Ulysses, (under the inspired name, The Soggy Mountain Boys) record the traditional ballad “Man of Constant Sorrow,” accompanied by Tommy Johnson’s hot guitar licks. That these country bumpkins can actually Great steak, seafood and traditional | | comfort food served in the L cozy atmosphere of an ee landmark building, | 98 Séutli Main Street, Heber City (435) 657 1100 authentic and moving blues chants of the black inmates left behind. ; This coupling of outlandish humor with the stark simplicity of the music is used throughout by the Coens. O sing and that the recording becomes an inadvertent hit while the law tracks OPENING HOURS: them cross-country is not as far-fetched Tuesday - Saturday Brother is a virtual catalogue of traditional musical styles of the 1930s—country were oral traditions that almost every- blues, Appalachian folk, prison laments, as it might seem. In America’s Depression South, music and humor one practiced. Praise be the Coen Ulan who knew where to find them. black gospel and white gospel. But the centerpiece is the stirring string music cir iction, fact, folklore, laughter, leg- hybrid that Kentucky’s Email: paul@wasatchcountycouriercom 5:30-9:30 pm Mention this ad and receive two-for-one desserts. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. mpegs Review by Paul Swenson | ee a Old- Timey, whose anyarnished PECK | A leader in Sales in tually be fused into a sleeker, swifter DIRECTED BY JOEL COEN. WRITTEN BY ETHAN -COEN AND JOEL COEN. 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