Sordid Lives

Comedy

Delta Burke	Noleta Nethercott
Bonnie Bedelia	Latrelle Williamson
Rosemary Alexander	Dr. Eve Bollinger
Beau Bridges	G.W. Nethercott
Earl H. Bullock
Kirk Geiger	Ty Williamson
Beth Grant	Sissy Hickey
Sarah Hunley	Juanita Barlett
Leslie Jordan	Earl 'Brother Boy' Ingram
Olivia Newton-John	Bitsy Mae Harling
Newell Alexander	Wardell 'Bubba' Owens
Earl Houston Bullock	Odell Owens (as Earl H. Bullock)
Mitch Carter	Bumper
Earl Bullock	Ty Williamson

Director	Del Shores
Producer	Victoria Alonso; Max Civon
Writer	Del Shores

If you've got a taste for big hair, broad Texas accents, and gay rights, this mixture of white-trash comedy and coming-out melodrama is for you. Sordid Lives starts out as chicken-fried farce, as a funeral is prepared for a woman who died when she tripped over her adulterous lover's wooden legs; about midway the emphasis shifts to a drag queen unfairly held in a mental institution and the dead woman's grandson, an actor in Los Angeles who hasn't come out to his mother. The tone shifts wildly, and the humor depends on your fondness for the white-trash genre--if you like it, this will tickle your ribs; if you don't, it'll fall flat as the panhandle landscape. But it must be said that the cast (including Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, and Olivia Newton-John) dives right in, no matter how over-the-top their characters get. --Bret Fetzer