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deseretnews.com - : Paul Newman is more feisty and rambunctious in ''Blaze'' than any film he's made in recent memory, and it's a real pleasure to see him tackle with lip-smacking glee the meaty role of Earl K. Long, flamboyant governor of Louisiana who, in 1959, began a torrid and much-publicized affair with an exotic dancer named Blaze Starr. more...
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www.rollingstone.com - : Writer-director Ron Shelton, who scored a major hit about minor-league baseball and sex in ''Bull Durham,'' now turns to Southern politics and sex. His film is based on a 1959 scandal involving Blaze Starr, a redheaded, twenty-eight-year-old stripper, and Earl K. Long, the sixty-five-year-old good ol' boy governor of Louisiana. Earl, brother of Huey Long, had already served three terms when he met Blaze. His itch for her helped cost him a fourth. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''Blaze'' comes on splendid as a Mississippi paddle wheeler, whistle tooting, wake churning, fancy ladies at the railing, gators grinning from the shallows. A fetching bit of Louisiana lore, it is history bent to suit the politics of a love story. more...
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