The GOP's good-old-boys of today would make the good-old-boys back in the Wigwam blush.
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"It looks like a good old boys' network," said Reese.
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These aren't the debauched good old boys of the past.
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Back then the good-old-boys procured delegates in the smoke-filled rooms.
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Trump telling them the good old boys were back on top again was.
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The phrase "good old boys" came up in more than a few of my interviews: "He was also very close with a lot of these corporate people, and it was just the good old boys' club," said Danielle in upstate New York.
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"It was the good old boys," said Ann, a former store manager in Mentor, Ohio.
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Former employees told the magazine about a "good old boys" culture that started with the C-suite.
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"Just good old boys from around here," she said, piloting their own boats and taking people to safety.
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Those good old boys, they should get in one of those circle jerks with a razor blade and have a blast.
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"His real agenda is going at the NFL community that didn't let him in that good old boys club," Smith said.
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His punch lines jabbed and picked apart, but his impressions of Southern good old boys or trendy urbanites were the real steamrollers.
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White men armed with shotguns remain good old boys in the American imagination, rugged cowboys bold enough to stand up to federal encroachment.
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"What I see with the N.F.L. owners is a bunch of good old boys telling the players: Stay in your place," he said.
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He loves telling stories of his legal tussles with the good old boys, punctuating them with a laugh that comes out like a wheeze.
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What he's doing for the good old boys club, you know in his own affluenza, he's saying, 'Hey look, let's not rush to judge.
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I referred the matter to a couple of good old boys who know much more about the noble art of Muay Thai than I do.
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That attitude—the antithesis of selfless public service, an anti-judge perspective, a good-old-boys thing—was summed up on a Sunday talk show.
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As more and more westerners rally to the defense of their public lands, the good old boys are losing their stranglehold on the public debate.
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"The mayor, he's from a different time period, where perhaps in the 'good old boys' days that was accepted," she told me, referencing the audio.
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The mostly white good old boys of the Bang-a-Rang feel their long-held privileges, and the sanctity of their fraternal bond, are under unfair assault.
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That's partly symptomatic of a "good old boys' club" mentality that sees filmmakers cherry-picking eager male protégés who look and think like they did as fledgling visionaries.
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It's at once an invitation to "good old boys" to Make America Great Again and a channel through which they can direct their anger by blaming an imagined other.
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Long before NASCAR grew into a force in auto racing, the good old boys of the hardscrabble rural South in the 21955s were racing souped-up autos at small-town dirt tracks.
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"It's well past time for the good old boys club in Washington, DC, to quit thinking they know who the best candidate and conservative leader is for Tennessee families," said Andrea Bozek, a spokesperson for Blackburn.
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In taking up the fight against the system, those of us who have been left behind by establishment politics — or the Good Old Boys Club — found a way to make the party of democracy more democratic.
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With Donald Trump in the White House and the possibility of Roy Moore in the Senate, the nation is watching closely to see whether the GOP is becoming the party of the GOB -- the good old boys.
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Former FBI agent Robyn Gritz said on Wednesday that there was a "good old boys" club within the premier U.S. law enforcement agencies after the Department of Justice released a report detailing gender bias in the field.
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"It's well past time for the good old boys' club in Washington, D.C., to quit thinking they know who the best candidate and conservative leader is for Tennessee families," Andrea Bozek, a spokesperson for Blackburn, told Politico.
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"Look, nothing personal, but it's not the good old boys club anymore," said Kimberly Smith, 40, who was born and raised on the South Side and said she thought the election marked a turning point in Chicago politics.
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They're also, implicitly, firing up their base by creating an even greater chasm between the "good old boys," whom they portray as defending their own, and the gold old boys' enemies: the implicit metropolitan (and coded-as-Jewish) elites.
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Match that with the presence of American metal luminary Sanford Parker at the production helm in Steve Albini's legendary Electrical Audio studio, and you have a sound that attracts plaid-shirted good old boys and church-burning misanthropes alike.
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And good old boys like Lucien Carbin (the first Dutch fighter to reputedly beat a Thai), Peter "the Hurricane" Smit, Frank Lobman, Rayen Simson, Gilbert Ballantine, Andre Brilleman Melvin Manhoef, Tyrone Spong, Nieky Holzen, Alistair Overeem, Perry Ubeda and Rico Verhoeven.
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She gracefully connected the good-old-boys'-club cover-up happening around her in the Senate with the coterie of protectors who have hovered around Trump — and other men who seem to believe they're too rich to fail — his entire life.
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Sanders was forty-three years old and the son of a former Republican state representative; he considered himself a happy beneficiary of the "good-old-boys system," he told me, and did not do his work in pursuit of political reform.
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An old, awful power dynamic seems to finally be shifting, and we're witnessing the last stand of the "good old boys" who used their power to abuse women with impunity and trust that everybody else would look the other way.
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It's tempting to think of these developments as the start of a sea change — the last stand of the "good old boys" who used their power to abuse women with impunity and trust that everybody else would look the other way, for instance.
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"[H]e went down to the Heart of Dixie in Alabama before an all white or mostly white crowd — the good old boys so to speak — and engaged in what many of us I think can fairly call race baiting," Jeffries said.
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HARRISON: In Las Vegas, and I asked them why, and they pulled out the City Code and apparently what happened in 1955, the good old boys got together and they passed a city ordinance that when the city population got to quarter of a million, they would issue one more pawn license.
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The good old boys weren't an official group except for how every employee knew exactly who they were: C-suite executives and senior vice presidents and regional vice presidents and district managers and even some store managers who helped keep the Sterling culture in place, from the stores to the H.R. department.
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Without giving too much away, it's fair to say that Once Upon a Time builds toward a "what if" denouement that pits Hollywood's good old boys against the young nihilists of 1969 in a literal battle for survival, modeling the generational conflict between them—violent women versus macho men, old-time actors versus hippie dropouts.
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" The years immediately following World War II, Mr. Wolfe wrote, brought "a mania for cars" that was especially intense in the South, where "to millions of good old boys, and girls, the automobile represented not only liberation for what was still pretty much a land-bound form of social organization but also a great leap forward into 20th-century glamour.
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Good Old Boys is an album by American musician John Hartford, released in 1999.
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"Rednecks" is a song by Randy Newman, the lead-off track on his 1974 album Good Old Boys.
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The Good Old Boys is a tale starring Jody and T.C. from the "All in the Family" storyline. Art is by Carlos Ezquerra.
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Eight Kelton novels, Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, Many a River, and The Way of the Coyote, have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. Peers in the WWA also named him as the greatest Western writer of all time.Legislature honors San Angelo author The Owen Wister Award Three other novels, City: The Time It Never Rained, The Good Old Boys, and The Man Who Rode Midnight, have received Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Good Old Boys was made into the Turner Network Television TV movie named The Good Old Boys (1995) starring Tommy Lee Jones.
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Hudson rejoined Strawbs for their 1987 album Don't Say Goodbye and stayed on for 1991's Ringing Down the Years on which he co-wrote two tracks with bass player Rod Demick and guitarist Brian Willoughby. In recent years he has played live gigs with Strawbs and continues to play with The Good Old Boys, alongside original Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper. In July 2009, The Good Old Boys released the CD Live at the Deep Purple Convention.
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"Louisiana 1927" is a 1974 song written and recorded by Randy Newman on the album Good Old Boys. It tells the story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which left 700,000 people homeless in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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"Good Old Boys," Metro, September 1993, p. 70-78, 80 He has married twice, with one son born to his first (South African) wife and four children to his second (New Zealand) wife. Thorne's family life was beset by tragedy.
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Other local programs included Liz Carpenter and the Good Old Boys and USS Lexington: Always Ready!, the latter a documentary about the World War II aircraft carrier that compiled the longest service record in the history of the United States Navy.
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A good old boys network has the connotation of this sort of personality combined with cronyism. This southern term also refers to the personal and friendly relationship between common citizens and local authorities usually resulting in lenient or sometimes no punishments for crimes committed by friends of law enforcement.
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It was released as a track on his 1974 album Good Old Boys. Birmingham is mentioned in "Playboy Mommy" by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos and in "Run, Baby, Run" by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. The country band Blackhawk recorded the song "Postmarked Birmingham". Tracy Lawrence and Ken Mellons each recorded the country song "Paint Me a Birmingham".
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The album also featured "Burn On", an ode to an infamous incident in which the heavily polluted Cuyahoga River literally caught fire. In 1989, "Burn On" was used as the opening theme to the film Major League, whose focus was the hapless Cleveland Indians. His 1974 release Good Old Boys was a set of songs about the American South.
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Howell had an uncredited role in the 1936 movie, The Adventures of Frank Merriwell as a football player.Millard 'Dixie' Howell In the book To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 11, Scout, in an attempt to cheer up her brother, tells him he resembles Dixie Howell. Howell is also mentioned in Randy Newman's song "My Daddy Knew Dixie Howell" from the album Good Old Boys.
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The album was aimed at radio station plays. Liner notes, Good Old Boys It was again produced in Hollywood, as was Anderson's final album, Passing Time, released on the Chelsea label in 1976 and at least partly comprising earlier recordings. Anderson reportedly died in 1989, probably in Altadena, California, after having both legs amputated as a result of severe diabetes.
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In music, singer-songwriter Randy Newman featured Long in two songs on the 1974 album Good Old Boys. Long has also been the subject of dozens of biographies and academic texts. In fact, more has been written about Long than any other Louisianan. Most notably, the 1970 biography Huey Long by T. Harry Williams won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in category History and Biography.
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Lyness, Karen S., and Donna E. Thompson. "Climbing The Corporate Ladder: Do Female And Male Executives Follow The Same Route?." Journal of Applied Psychology (2000) 86-101. Web. The 1996 study "A Study of the Career Development and Aspirations of Women in Middle Management" posits that social structures and networks within businesses that favor "good old boys" and norms of masculinity exist based on the experiences of women surveyed.
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Jones at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival In 2005, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jones's character speaks both English and Spanish in the film. His performance won him the Best Actor Award at Cannes. His first film as a director had been The Good Old Boys in 1995, a made-for-television movie.
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Good Old Boys is the fourth studio album by Randy Newman, released in 10 September 1974 on Reprise Records, catalogue number 2193. It was Newman's first album to obtain major commercial success, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard 200. The premiere live performance of the album took place on October 5, 1974, at the Symphony Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, with guest Ry Cooder and Newman conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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Before the applicant could take the required entrance exam, had to confirm with the regimental commander the character and professional competence of the aspirant. This process was also often used for social selection (good old Prussian replacement desired circles- or good old boys). In the Regiment, preparations were made for the entrance examination. As a rule, only graduates of the academy transferred to the General Staff, or could even exercise the Magisterium.
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Ezquerra also collaborated numerous times with writer Garth Ennis on Bloody Mary, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, War Stories, a Hitman annual with artist Steve Pugh, and two Preacher specials (The Good Old Boys and The Saint of Killers miniseries) for DC Comics, and Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Entertainment. Ezquerra occasionally used the nom de plume "L John Silver" for work such as 2000AD's "The Riddle of the Astral Assassin!" prog 118, and ABC Warriors, progs 134–136.
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Elmer Kelton, mostly noted for his novels The Good Old Boys and The Time it Never Rained, was voted by the Western Writers of America as the "Best Western Writer of All Time". Early in the 1970s Indiana novelist Marilyn Durham wrote two popular Western novels, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing and Dutch Uncle. Western readership as a whole began to drop off in the mid- to late 1970s. A partial exception was an innovation, the so-called "adult western".
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The team existed under this name from 1901 until 1965. They were members of the Southern Association from their inception until 1961, and members of the International League from 1961 until they were moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1965. Singer-songwriter Randy Newman, on his socio-politically themed album Good Old Boys (1974) uses the term "cracker" on the song "Kingfish" ("I'm a cracker, You one too, Gonna take good care of you"). The song's subject is Huey Long, populist Governor and then Senator for Louisiana (1928–1935).
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Tensions between the Ku Klux Klan and the Vietnamese community explode in Little Saigon when Hung kills a local white fisherman in self-defense. Jian-Wa is preparing to leave again when the Sheriff seeks him out for interrogation after having witnessed the event, but he reconsiders with Lanchi's persuasion. Reggie, who is also a witness, is torn between lying to please the good old boys and following his convictions. Ku Klux Klan members storm the Vietnamese community, and just when Jian-Wa and Hung are about to lose the fight, Wago arrives on the scene and rescues them.
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On television, Spacek received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). As a singer, Spacek sang all of Loretta Lynn's songs for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
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Newman has called "Rednecks" one of his favorite compositions. He said he wrote the song after watching Maddox's appearance with Cavett and "seeing him be treated rudely... they had just elected him governor, in a state of 6 million or whatever, and if I were a Georgian, I would have been offended, irrespective of the fact that he was a bigot and a fool." Newman said that having written "Rednecks" he felt he had to explain where he was coming from, which led him to write "Marie" and "Birmingham", two other songs that ended up on his Good Old Boys album.
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Mark Twain briefly satirized the fate of the expedition and its subsequent searches in the beginning of the story "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875). The German novelist Sten Nadolny's The Discovery of Slowness (1983; English translation 1987) takes on the entirety of Franklin's life, touching only briefly on his last expedition. Other recent novelistic treatments of Franklin include William T. Vollmann's The Rifles (1994), John Wilson's North With Franklin: The Journals of James Fitzjames (1999); and Dan Simmons's The Terror (2007), which was developed as a 2018 AMC television series also called The Terror.
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After leaving Atco, he recorded the album The Kind Of Man I Am, produced by Ed Hansen for Gold Star Productions in Hollywood and released by the small Super Star label. He also released two singles for the Reprise label, both produced by Glen D. Hardin, and then two for the Amos label, including a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" in 1970. Anderson continued to perform in clubs and on campuses around the country. In 1974, he released the album Good Old Boys as a tribute to country music stars including Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline and Johnny Horton.
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Glaswegian Heywood first worked with Underwood in Quatermass II, along with former Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper, originally as singer only, though he took on the bass duties as well when Simper left to concentrate on his band The Good Old Boys. Heywood established his credentials working with The Pretty Things' Phil May, Gary Barden, Hot Chocolate's Harvey Hinsley, and touring Europe and Britain with John Coghlan's Quo. Heywood has also headlined at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. After the departure of Heywood, the Raw Glory line-up was completed by singer Paul Manzi, and bass player Ronnie Garrity (who had previously worked with ex-Thin Lizzy member Eric Bell).
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Rodger Boyce is an American character actor who has appeared in more than a dozen feature films, including Best Picture Oscar winner No Country for Old Men one of three films he has done with Tommy Lee Jones (the others including The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Good Old Boys). Other notable feature film appearances include Where the Heart Is, A Perfect World and Lone Star State of Mind. He has also appeared in some 25 made-for-television movies. In addition, his television work has included episodic appearances in TV series ranging from Dallas, Dangerous Curves and The Big Easy to Walker, Texas Ranger, Roughriders, The Good Guys and even Wishbone.
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He started his first and most successful book, The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (1970), while at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship, a program designed to allow journalists the time to reflect on their careers and focus on honing their skills. The book was described by The New York Times as being "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written". The book provided an eye on the scene around the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee at a time when country music was starting to achieve broader cultural recognition. The Good Old Boys (1974) was the first collection of his newspaper pieces, featuring items about country singers, baseball players and other assorted characters.
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The formerly poor immigrants who had benefited under Farley's national machine had become assimilated and prosperous and no longer needed the informal or extralegal aides provided by machines. In the 1940s most of the big city machines collapsed, with the exception of Chicago. A local political machine in Tennessee was forcibly removed in what was known as the 1946 Battle of Athens. Smaller communities such as Parma, Ohio, in the post–Cold War Era under Prosecutor Bill Mason's "Good Old Boys" and especially communities in the Deep South, where small-town machine politics are relatively common, also feature what might be classified as political machines, although these organizations do not have the power and influence of the larger boss networks listed in this article.
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Good Old Boys was initially envisioned as a concept album about a character named Johnny Cutler, an everyman of the Deep South. Newman made a demo of these songs on February 1, 1973: they were released as the bonus disc for the 2002 reissue, titled Johnny Cutler's Birthday. The kernel of this concept survived into the released album, although as Newman's take on viewpoints from the inhabitants of the Deep South in general, rather than from a single individual character. As on his previous release, Newman addressed generally taboo topics such as slavery and racism, most stringently on the opening song "Rednecks", a simultaneous satire on institutional racism in the Deep South and the hypocrisy of the northern states in response.
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After several years as a 'cult' artist, Randy Newman achieved his first significant commercial success as a solo artist with his 1974 album Good Old Boys which made the Top 40. His controversial 1977 single "Short People" was one of the surprise hits of the year, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. On October 12, 1974 WBR and Phil Spector established Warner-Spector Records, but the label was short-lived and folded in 1977; most of its releases were reissues Philles Records recordings from the 1960s and the only new material released was two singles by the disco group Calhoon and a single by Cher. In 1975 David Geffen was obliged to leave the company for health reasons,Tom King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood, p.
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During Browner's tenure, there were many reports from African American employees of racism directed at them from a network of "good old boys" who dominated the agency's middle management. The most known of these reports involved policy specialist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, who in 1997 filed suit against the agency; in 2000, the court found the EPA guilty of discrimination against Coleman-Adebayo, and awarded her $300,000. Coleman- Adebayo said that Browner allowed the problems to persist rather than trying to clean them up. In an October 2000 Congressional hearing on the matter, Browner emphasized that minorities had tripled in number in the agency's senior rank during her time as administrator, but was unable to explain why the culprits in Coleman-Adebayo's case had not been dismissed and in some cases had been promoted.
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The Uzbek government additionally provided free equipment and use of its engineers and staff. The American investors included a group from Perry, Ga, that consisted of a dentist, an eye doctor, an insurance man, an engineer and a stockbroker organized by the red-haired Brian L. Bowen, who was 37 years old in 1996.(Janet Guyon, Cellular Start-Up: Some Good Old Boys Make Lots of Money Phoning Up Tashkent, Wall Street Journal, June 21, 1996) The company first turned a profit in 1993. By 1996, it had $50 million in annual revenues, 7,000 subscribers, and employed 224 staff. Gulnora Karimova gained control of the firm in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and by 2005 it was 74% owned by Russia's MTS, which paid $121 million for the stake.
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Besides his theatrical work, Kinney has done much acting, mainly for television, starting in 1985 with an appearance in Miami Vice. In 1987, he starred as Pastor Tom Bird in the CBS miniseries Murder Ordained opposite JoBeth Williams. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the idealistic unit manager Tim McManus on HBO's prison drama Oz. In 1995, Kinney co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones in an adaptation of an Elmer Kelton western novel titled The Good Old Boys. Tommy Lee Jones directed this made-for-TV movie which also co-starred Sissy Spacek, Matt Damon, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley and retired Texas Ranger H. Joaquin Jackson. Kinney also directed two episodes of Oz, "Cruel and Unusual Punishments" in 1999 and "Wheel of Fortune" in 2002.
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Jackson was in several movies, namely as the character Sheriff Wes Wheeler in the 1995 motion picture The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones, in the 1997 made-for-TV movie Rough Riders, and in a 1997 TV mini-series, Streets of Laredo, based on author Larry McMurtry's novel of the same title. Jackson also played the fictional Sheriff Jackson in the 2008 movie Palo Pinto Gold, starring singer Trent Willmon, and appears as Archie in the motion picture Poodle Dog Lounge, released in late 2008. Jackson also served as a role model for Jeff Bridges' character Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton in the 2016 film Hell or High Water and similarly for Nick Nolte's character Texas Ranger Jack Benteen in the 1987 film Extreme Prejudice. His last film was Wild Horses released in 2015.
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"Rednecks" began with a description of segregationist Lester Maddox pitted against a "smart-ass New York Jew" on a TV show (this was a joke, because the "Jew" was Dick Cavett), in a song that criticizes both southern racism and the complacent bigotry of Americans outside of the south who stereotype all southerners as racist yet ignore racism in northern and midwestern states and large cities. This ambiguity was also apparent on "Kingfish" and "Every Man a King", the former a paean to Huey Long (the assassinated former Governor and United States Senator from Louisiana), the other a campaign song written by Long himself. An album that received lavish critical praise, Good Old Boys also became a commercial breakthrough for Newman, peaking at No. 36 on Billboard 200, spending 21 weeks there. Little Criminals (1977) contained the surprise hit "Short People", which also became a subject of controversy.
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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer- songwriter, arranger and composer known for his Southern-affected singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. His best-known songs as a recording artist are "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995), while other artists have enjoyed more success with cover versions of his "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1966), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968) and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, Newman began his songwriting career at the age of 17, penning hits for acts such as the Fleetwoods, Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. In 1968, he made his formal debut as a solo artist with the album Randy Newman, produced by Lenny Waronker and Van Dyke Parks. Four of Newman's non-soundtrack albums have charted in the US top 40: Sail Away (1972), Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008). Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer.
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