:28:00
I don't know how to tell you this,
but I been meanin' to...
:28:03
you can't sing.
:28:05
You may as well face the fact
you cannot sing.
:28:07
You ain't never gon' be no star.
I wish you'd give it up.
:28:11
They gon' kill ya. They gon' tear
your heart out if you keep on.
:28:14
They gon' walk on your soul, girl.
:28:17
- What are you talkin' about?
- You can't sing.
:28:20
- Do you understand that?
- Yeah? You wanna make a bet?
:28:23
You wanna come to the Parthenon
and watch me sing with Barbara Jean?
:28:26
- I am leavin' for Detroit Wednesday.
- You just come and watch, Wade.
:28:29
I'm leavin' for Detroit, and if
you wanna go you just come on.
:28:32
- They gonna kill you in this town.
- Well, you come and see.
:28:35
- They gon' use you. You know that.
- Bye, Wade.
:28:38
Dumb bitch.
I don't know why I stick around.
:28:40
She just makes me so goddamn mad
I could spit.
:28:43
[Man]
Little more than a year ago,
:28:46
a man named Hal Phillip Walker...
:28:48
excited a group of college students
with some questions:
:28:50
Have you stood
on a high and windy hill...
:28:52
and heard the acorns drop and roll?
:28:55
Have you walked in the valley
beside the brook,
:28:58
walked alone and remembered?
:28:59
Does Christmas
smell like oranges to you?
:29:03
In a commencement speech such
questions were fitting, perhaps,
:29:06
but hardly the material with which
to launch a presidential campaign.
:29:09
Even those who pay
close attention to politics...
:29:12
probably saw Hal Phillip Walker
and his Replacement Party...
:29:16
as a bit of frost
on the hillside...
:29:19
summer, if not late spring,
would surely do away with all that.
:29:22
Well, now that summer,
:29:23
along with presidential primaries,
is heavy upon us...
:29:25
and the frost is still there,
:29:27
perhaps we should take
a closer look.
:29:29
Hal Phillip Walker is,
in a way, a mystery man.
:29:32
Out of nowhere, with a handful
of students and scarcely any pros,
:29:35
he's managed to win
three presidential primaries...
:29:38
and is given a fighting chance
to take a fourth... Tennessee.
:29:42
A win in that state would
take on added significance,
:29:45
for only once in the last 50 years
has Tennessee failed to vote...
:29:48
for the winning
presidential candidate.
:29:50
No doubt many Americans,
especially party liners,
:29:53
wish that Hal Phillip Walker
would go away,
:29:56
disappear like the natural frost...
:29:58
and come again at
some more convenient season.