September 23, 1987 (vol. 97, iss. 10) • Page Image 63
… whose prevailing spirit is often summed up in the slogan Laissez le bon temps rouler- Let the good times roll.) When a grinning Remy tells the starched lawyer played by Barkin, "Relax, cher, folks got a different way of doin' things down here," it's both a seduction and a rationalization: sure, he's corrupt. Everybody else is, too. "There's a system down there," Quaid says. "Out here in L.A. there's no room for the particular kind of corrupti...…

















































