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BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
Directed by Colin Higgins; with Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom Delouise,
Charles Durning, Robert Mandan, and Lois Nettleton.
1982
his
musical comedy has been watered down from a local history lesson that
made its way to the pages of Playboy magazine and later on to Broadway.
The story is based on a legendary Texas brothel called the Chicken Ranch
which authorities shut down in the seventies following a fervent campaign
rallied against it by an obsessive TV newsman. Here, Dolly = charm +
decolletage. And Burt, well, he's Burt (remember: this is the early
eighties). Maybe there's a little sexual chemistry missing between these
two smilers, but believe it or not the acting's not half bad. It's actually
Charles Durning, in his role as the Governor of Texas, who steals the
show with his little song and dance about corruption. We Texans all
have our guilty pleasures, consider this bawdy enterprise one of them.
his
musical comedy has been watered down from a local history lesson that
made its way to the pages of Playboy magazine and later on to Broadway.
The story is based on a legendary Texas brothel called the Chicken Ranch
which authorities shut down in the seventies following a fervent campaign
rallied against it by an obsessive TV newsman. Here, Dolly = charm +
decolletage. And Burt, well, he's Burt (remember: this is the early
eighties). Maybe there's a little sexual chemistry missing between these
two smilers, but believe it or not the acting's not half bad. It's actually
Charles Durning, in his role as the Governor of Texas, who steals the
show with his little song and dance about corruption. We Texans all
have our guilty pleasures, consider this bawdy enterprise one of them.
