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Kathleen Chalfant as Miss Lily Trey Wilson as Benjamin Drapper Amy Wright as Missy Mahoney Alfre Woodard as Popeye Jackson Ann Wedgeworth as Miss Blue Mary Steenburgen as Elain Rutledge Sam Scott Glenn as Mac Veanne Cox as Tessy Mahoney Tim Robbins as Delmount Williams Directed by Thomas Schlamme Edited by Peter C. Frank Photographed by DAILY SIKESTON STANDARD 10c PER COPY Published Doily Except Sunday OUR 53rd YEAR SIKESTON, SCOTT COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1962 NUMBER 31 Halloween Costume Contest Winners Castro Rejects Inspection Of Soviet Missile Removal FUNNIEST COSTUMES: Sandra Eaton, first; Mike Hodges, - e md' nd JoAnne Graff, third. Oct 22, 2011 - a gaggle of images that remind me of Popeye. Their father is away fighting in the Civil War. DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd, 100% found this document useful (21 votes), 100% found this document useful, Mark this document as useful, 0% found this document not useful, Mark this document as not useful, Electronic Edition by Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., 2012 . From Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), this dark Southern comedy tells the story of a small town beauty queen trying to save her tarnished reputation and leave town in a blaze of glory by winning the Miss Firecracker Contest.When her beautiful cousin, Elain, and Elain's estranged brother return to town, situations become more complicated. 0000009043 00000 n
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Hmm. POPEYE. She says you've done some really fine work in her shop. Amazon.com: Miss Firecracker [VHS] : Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn, Veanne Cox, Ann Wedgeworth, Trey Wilson, Amy Wright, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Fieldsteel, Greg Germann, Arthur Albert, Thomas Schlamme, Fred Berner, Helen Pollak, Lewis M. Allen, Richard Coll, Ross Milloy, Beth Henley: Movies & TV <>
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A delusional southern beauty surrounded by misfits and mental cases tries to build a road to redemption out of a small-town pageant in ways that are funny but not soul-destroying in "The Miss Firecracker Contest," a Southern Gothic play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Beth Henley, coming Nov. 14 to Fort Hays . <>
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Both charming and irreverent, The Miss Firecracker Contest is a wistful take on Southern beauty culture and the real-life facades it so eloquently symbolizes. POPEYE: I don't know, your face looks tired. 0000021635 00000 n
, Carnelle Scott, 24, the beauty contestant, Elain Rutledge, 32, Carnelles first cousin; a beauty. Carnelle (Phylicia Mason), who has been living in her late aunt's house, has developed the wrong kind of reputation among the community's blue-nosed gossips after catching syphilis and passing it. When you are ready to print, please highlight, copy, and paste into a document. 1318 0 obj
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