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	Emanuel Levy : Review - A Love Song for Bobby Long
		Love Song is the kind of film in which revelations are made and secrets undisclosed.
		An emotionally stirring melodrama, Love Song is a labor of love for writer-director Gable, a documentarian who co-directed the cross-country odyssey Anthem, and spent five years on developing and securing funds for Love Song.
		Love Song can be faulted for wanting to have it both ways: At once a critique of the bourgeois family and a restoration of that family.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=131 (1360 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long
		While Bobby was once a well know author and sought after professor but now he is a shell of a man reduced by lethargy and alcohol to a disheveled creature in a tattered bathrobe.
		Bobby and Lawson sit around the house in haze of tobacco smoke and booze quoting lines from the literary giants of the twentieth century, devoid of any direction, any sense of purpose.
		Long and Pursy are both so strong willed and set in their ways that only a person like Lawson who is so unsure of his own life could possibly mediate between them, his need to please both forms the bridge to bring them together.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /a_love_song_for_bobby_long.htm (1195 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "A Love Song for Bobby Long" DVD Review
		Languishing in a trailer in Panama City, Florida – “The Redneck Riviera,” as Bobby Long calls it – she is stuffing her face with junk food and braining out in front of the television when we first meet her, when her boyfriend tells her that “some guy” called, and that Persy’s mother is dead.
		Bobby is a great storyteller, and he has created a fantasy around himself, a protective shell of southern charm and old quotes; he has made a character of himself.
		A Love Song For Bobby Long is not a great film, and it is certainly nothing new, but it is highly watchable, if only for the memorable work by this talented cast and the stunning, vibrant photography.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/l/lovesongbobbylong.htm (872 words)

	A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bobby, however, anticipates Pursy's arrival and has his story ready: Lorraine left her house to all three of them-Pursy, Bobby and Lawson.
		A Love Song for Bobby Long is yet another argument against placing total artistic control in the hands of a young and/or inexperienced filmmaker-in this case, writer-director Shainee Gabel.
		She obviously fell so blindly in love with the story's theme-misfits are people too, and deserve to love one another like everyone else-that she abandoned all critical judgment, letting herself get swamped by sentimentality.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000742708 (551 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: A Love Song for Bobby Long (xhtml)
		There is a lazy, seductive appeal to the lives of the two boozers in "A Love Song for Bobby Long." The notion of moving to New Orleans and drinking yourself to death is the sort of escape plan only an alcoholic could come up with, involving the principle of surrender to the enemy.
		Bobby Long is played by John Travolta like a living demonstration of one of those artist's conceptions of what Elvis would look like at 70.
		Bobby and Lawson are well fertilized, but too disorganized to plant anything; an unfinished novel and a would-be memoir languish in the shadows.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050127/REVIEWS/50113006/1023 (853 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Bobby Long, he gets to ham it up more than usual, because Long is a barely functioning alcoholic.
		Nevertheless, it is Travolta (Ladder 49, The Punisher) who brings down Love Song, based on the novel by Ronald Everett Capps.
		Long was once a respected English professor (which is why he quotes literature all day), but after some family issues, left his wife and now does nothing.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/love_song_bobby_long.html (435 words)

	The Aisle Seat - A Love Song for Bobby Long
		When she moves in, Pursy discovers that she shares the inheritance with Bobby Long (John Travolta), a washed-up English professor-turned-alcoholic, and Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), who is writing a book about Bobby.
		A Love Song for Bobby Long is all beginning and middle; the ending is missing.
		John Travolta is very good as Bobby Long, although the character is such a lazy drunk that it’s easy to grow frustrated with him.
	www.geocities.com /gamut_mag/boblong.htm (792 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'A Love Song for Bobby Long'
		In "A Love Song for Bobby Long," Scarlett Johansson plays Purslane Hominy Will, a high school dropout who returns to New Orleans after her musician mother's death to find a pair of highly literate alcoholics living in the house she thought she'd inherited.
		Among other things, the characters in "A Love Song for Bobby Long" really know how to turn a phrase, in itself a pleasure so rare it all but demands any flaws be forgiven.
		Bobby's guilt and self-loathing are well-buried underneath his dimpled grin and dazzling oratorical style, but he has a hard time forgiving himself for being liked.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-bobby29dec29,2,6575546.story (688 words)

	A Love Song For Bobby Long - Movie Review
		"A Love Song for Bobby Long" is set in New Orleans among a community of alcoholics, has-beens and screw-ups, where one can get away with shambling down to the neighborhood dive bar while wearing a dingy, once-white suit and no shoes.
		Bobby shares a run-down house with Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), a once-promising writer whom Bobby claims to be mentoring.
		When "A Love Song for Bobby Long" concentrates on moving its plot forward, it aims too wide and clumsily lays bare all its secrets and twists.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/bobbylong (472 words)

	Review: Love Song for Bobby Long, A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I'm not willing to go that far, but I will say two things: the actress' work in A Love Song for Bobby Long re-enforces my opinion that Johansson is one of the brightest stars of her generation, and she is hands-down the best thing about this movie.
		The A-list star of A Love Song for Bobby Long is John Travolta, who appears greatly aged as a result of makeup and white hair, but there is no moment in which Travolta manages to steal the spotlight from Johansson.
		She arrives too late for the funeral, and discovers that her mother's house is inhabited by two men: the rude and obnoxious Bobby Long (Travolta) and his younger, gentler protégé, Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/l/love_song.html (590 words)

	AboutFilm.com - A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
		Travolta's latest film, A Love Song for Bobby Long, is his first character role in some years, and you've never seen him in such a shabby state, not even in Pulp Fiction.
		A Love Song for Bobby Long is definitely a very literary film, and not just because Bobby and Lawson spend their time quoting Dylan Thomas, George Sand, and Robert Frost.
		Macht, as kind of a Bobby Long Junior with pangs of conscience, is every bit as good in a performance that should lead to bigger things.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/l/lovesongforbobbylong.htm (879 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 independent film based on the novel by Ronald Everett Capps.
		Expecting to find her mother's house empty, she is surprised to encounter two men who have taken residence, Bobby Long (Travolta) and his protege, Lawson Pines (Macht).
		They are forced to live together, and as time goes by, they realize how connected their lives really are.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Love_Song_for_Bobby_Long (175 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
		With his new drama, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Travolta appears to be trying to rejuvenate his career by once again playing an eccentric character invented to make people to sit up and take notice.
		Recently their landlady (and close friend) has died, and when her sullen teenage daughter Pursy (Scarlett Johansson) shows up to claim her mother's property, Bobby has a lie all ready for her: The woman left the house to the three of them equally, expecting that they would room together.
		And it isn't enough that Bobby is a serial tippler, and that he is reaching the age where his body is signaling that it would really rather stop absorbing so much 80-proof nectar.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139582&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (769 words)

	A Love Song For Bobby Long
		A Love Song For Bobby Long is such a story, New Orleans division.
		In the South, it is common for "Bobby" to be the name of an adult (in the case of this movie, even a once-distinguished English professor), and the name on his (or her!) birth certificate may even be "Bobby." It ain't always a nickname, down here, podner.
		It begins, "Tahm was never a friend to Bobba Long..." The film ups the preciousness ante with a constant exchange of literary references between Bobby and Lawson, as they try to stump one another in an ongoing game of quotes from their favorite authors.
	www.fakes.net /lovesongforbobbylong.htm (1686 words)

	Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004): Reviews
		The movie tries for tragedy and reaches only pathos, but then Bobby lost his chance to be a tragic hero by living this long in the first place.
		The hokey solemnity of A Love Song for Bobby Long suggests "The Mundane Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood" or "The Notebook Goes to the Big Easy." The movie is another example of Hollywood's going soft and squishy when it goes South.
		Macht is the best thing in A Love Song for Bobby Long, but his intelligent performance doesn't justify a tough, and very long, sit.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/lovesongforbobbylong (1281 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: A Love Song for Bobby Long
		Our yearning to be loved for who we really are is so strong that it animates our souls again and again.
		Bobby was once a highly respected literature professor at an Alabama University until a fight and an accident ended his career.
		She discovers that Bobby loved her very much, as did Cecil (Dane Rhodes), who lives across the street and whose home is a gathering spot for various musicians and drinkers in the neighborhood.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_9397.html (790 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > A Love Song for Bobby Long
		That is until Purslane finds out her mother has died and shows up on Bobby and Lawson's doorstep to claim the third of the house that is owed to her.
		Johansson, admittedly, is one of the reasons I first wanted to see A Love Song for Bobby Long and, although this certainly isn't her best work, she is as radiant as ever.
		A Love Song for Bobby Long is presented in an anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen format that has more issues than one would expect from such a recent film.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=15609 (1992 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long
		In playing Bobby, an alcoholic ex-literature professor living in New Orleans, Travolta's performance is idiosyncratic but not particularly appealing.
		When Johansson is on screen, Bobby Long is tolerable, but writer-director Shainee Gabel is too impressed with herself to let the movie flow.
		Later, we learn why Bobby and Lawson are staying pickled in New Orleans, although Gabel doesn't even have the courtesy to use flashback for the background, which is too elaborate even for this movie.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0128bobbylong28.html (543 words)

	Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004) - Review - Piddleville
		There she finds two drunks living in her mother's old house, Bobby Long (John Travolta) and Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht).
		Purslane and Bobby have a prickly relationship - he wants her out of the house and she has no intention to leave.
		What is interesting about A Love Song for Bobby Long is that it is a story that is all backstory.
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review264_BobbyLong.htm (673 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long
		Understanding immediately who she is and why she's there, Long justifies his and Lawson's presence in the house by declaring that Lorraine left the house to the three of them, a partial lie but a working hypothesis.
		Leading the pack is Long himself, turningout to be the central magnet of the group and a former literature professor who spouts Robert Frost at will and sings folk songs.
		The part of Bobby Long should have gone to someone with a genuine background in folk music and/or musicianship in general (a less box-office-friendly Kris Kristofferson comes to mind).
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2004_A_Love_Song_for_Bobby_Long.html (946 words)

	A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Capps' son, Grayson Capps, appears in the film and contributed six songs to its soundtrack.
		Quotes: Bobby Long: It's all right, I can walk to the curb from here.
		Reviews for "A Love Song for Bobby Long" are falling in the range from terrible to fantastic.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0369672 (383 words)

	‘Love Song for Bobby Long’ lacks passion - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shainee Gabel’s “A Love Song for Bobby Long” may set a new record for literary name-dropping.
		Trouble is, it’s already occupied by a couple of hard-drinking writers, Bobby Long (John Travolta) and Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), who spend their mornings sleeping off the binges of the night before.
		Bobby and Lawson’s relationship to Lorraine and to each other is a little fuzzy, but gradually it’s established that Bobby was once an Alabama college professor (“a troubadour, a poet,” in his words) and Lawson was his teaching assistant.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6759070 (740 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - A Love Song For Bobby Long (2004)
		By the time she arrives, however, she is too late, faced with two alcoholics, 49-year-old Bobby Long (John Travolta) and younger aspiring novelist Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht), living in the house her mother has left to the three of them.
		Because Bobby props himself up on Lawson, going through him to keep dreams of the future alive since he doesn't have any of his own, imagining a life without him is impossible.
		Filled with lovingly chosen southern blues songs that capture the essence of its characters' hesitant lives, "A Love Song for Bobby Long" is better in sections than as a whole, and those sections don't arrive at a steady enough pace to undo its failings.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/l/04_lovesong.htm (776 words)

	Music-Online-Store - International
		People brought these songs to the Carters, mostly to AP and Leslie Riddle, singing them on their porches, or in juke joints, or often when AP would stop after hearing a rumor that used saw mill parts could be obtained at a good price, something he was obessed with.
		Bob Marley could write a song about living in a torn shack in Jamacia and when you heard it, you were in that torn shack while rain water seeps through the cracks in the roof and you are left standing there praying for a better life...even if you live in a mansion.
		I love albums that present a specific feel throughout, as if it were a song-cycle, and this album, although flawed at places, does this very well.I think it's a amazing that Doves was able to do this with this stlye, but I shouldn't be surprised, seeing how well The Last Broacast was put together.
	www.music-online-store.com /node/international/12411.html (9553 words)

	Southern stereotypes soaked in bourbon
		John Travolta plays Bobby Long, an erudite Southerner on the skids in "A Love Song for Bobby Long.'' In gray hair, stubble and Alabama accent, he's charming, charismatic and always John Travolta.
		A love for the colorful seems to have clouded the judgment of director Shainee Gabel (adapting a novel by Ronald Everett Capps).
		Bobby and Pursy's relationship is one of three unconventional love stories unfolding in the house.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/28/DDG8QB100L1.DTL&type=movies (587 words)

	cbs4.com - 'Love Song For Bobby Long' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But Bobby and Lawson's illusion is interrupted one day by the arrival of Purslane Hominy Will (Johansson, and yes that really is her character's name), the estranged teenage daughter of the local country singer who owned the house and let Bobby and Lawson live there before her recent death.
		Pursy, as she is known, first appears in the movie living with her useless boyfriend in a Panama City, Fla., trailer and eating peanut butter straight from the jar.
		"A Love Song for Bobby Long," a Lions Gate Films release, is rated R for language including sexual references.
	cbs4.com /moviereviews/movies_story_364082235.html (618 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie review - A Love Song for Bobby Long
		When we first see Bobby Long (John Travolta), we don't see his face but rather his flened big toe, wrapped in a smiley-face Band-Aid.
		"Bobby Long" also allows Johansson a greater range than she's been allowed in melancholy, buttoned-down roles in "Ghost World" and "Lost in Translation." Purslane initially hates the often-profane Bobby, then sees her roommates as a way to understand her absentee junkie mother.
		But even as Purslane pretties up their homestead and is politely flmailed into completing high school, Bobby and Lawson can't overpower ghosts that have been haunting them for years.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---24451,00.html (450 words)

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