Cinema: Sweet Willie

HONEYSUCKLE ROSE

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg

Screenplay by Carol Sobieski, William D. Wittliffand John Binder

No less likely a sex star has emerged since Miss Piggy. This rodeo raga muffin—with his Indian headbands, his long braided hair, a diamond stud in his left earlobe and a face as seamed and leathery as a football left out in the Texas sun—looks like the last of the red hot Muppets. No matter: the camera loves Willie Nelson. In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two...

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