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release of the film, the latter of which it was also packaged with. The new-edition soundtrack includes the three Talking Heads performances with David Byrne on lead vocals that are featured in the movie, "Wild Wild Life," "Love for Sale," and "City of Dreams", which are the same recordings included
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The film is presented as a series of vignettes centered around Byrne as an unnamed, cowboy-hat-wearing stranger who visits the fictional Texas town of Virgil, where he observes the citizens as they prepare for the "Celebration of Specialness" to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas' independence. The
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parodies remain in the film version. Similarly, the video for "Love for Sale" is the same as that seen in the film (in which Kurtz's character is shown watching it on TV) except the video version has additional footage of Talking Heads, more references to recognizable TV commercials of the day, and
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releases, no full album of cast performances was released until 2018 (see below). Prior to 2018, few of the original versions of songs from the film found official release. The St. Thomas Aquinas School Choir's version of "Hey Now" was released on the 1987 Talking Heads UK CD single, "Radio Head";
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Tobolowsky was aware that Texas was coming up on its sesquicentennial celebration, and thought that would provide a good framework for the characters Byrne had invented. Henley and he wrote a draft and provided it to Byrne, then did not hear back from him for about a year. It later turned out that
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During Tobolowsky's early talks with Byrne, he related to Byrne the story of a series of psychic experiences he had during college, in which he had been able to hear "tones" that told him things about other people. Byrne incorporated this story into his rewrite, using it as the basis for Ramon's
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in which the band performs most of the songs from the film, including songs that were performed by the actors in the film. As such, the album is not generally considered a true soundtrack album, a fact Byrne points out in his liner notes on the release. Later, Byrne released an album containing
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Byrne had rewritten their script almost entirely, keeping only a few lines and the sesquicentennial framework from the first draft. However, he asked Tobolowsky and Henley for permission to list their names ahead of his as scriptwriters so the film would seem less like a "vanity project."
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in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, and received a limited release elsewhere the following year. Byrne was given much creative control over the motion picture's direction, largely due to the mainstream success of Talking Heads' 1984 concert film
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in the state, telling the Miami Herald in 1986: "I first was lured there for financial reasons because it's a right-to-work state, and they have experienced crews and a studio near Dallas."
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event is being sponsored by the Varicorp Corporation, a local computer manufacturing plant. Among the many characters the visitor meets and interacts with, the most prominent are:
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is a tour of Virgil, Texas, Byrne's toytown utopia, whose peculiar citizens have neurosis down to a fine art. Zippy the Pinhead would be at home in Virgil."
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soundtrack was made publicly available, 32 years after the movie's original release. The soundtrack was issued to coincide with Criterion's 2018
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to the music in a night club; the video version is more risque and features more pop music references/parodies than seen in the film; the
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in Mesquite. The parade scene at the end of the film includes various local groups, including the Tejas Low Riders Club and the
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Byrne has stated that the decision to film in Texas was motivated in large part by investors in the project, due to anti-union
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is largely a scene taken from the film, in which many of the film's characters (including John Goodman)
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features a number of songs written by Byrne and performed by various members of the cast as well as by
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as The Narrator (also as the Lip-Syncher with mustache during the "Wild Wild Life" sequence)
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gave it a glowing review with a rating of 3.5/4 stars. It has achieved success in
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in North Dallas, and the exterior mall scene was filmed at the now-demolished
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that he and his girlfriend Beth Henley met David Byrne and Talking Heads when
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While several of the cast performances were released as bonus tracks on
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Civic leader Earl Culver, who never speaks directly to his wife, Kay
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True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas.
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True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack
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The music video version of "Wild Wild Life" that debuted on
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was not a commercial success at the time of its release. On
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An early working title for the project (endorsed by bassist
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is a disarmingly big-hearted, dreamy vision of Americana."
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Stephen Tobolowsky recounts in an episode of his podcast
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primarily instrumental music from the soundtrack titled
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Mr. Tucker, Miss Rollings' personal assistant, a kindly
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practitioner whom Louis hires to help him find love
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True Story (film)

David Byrne
Stephen Tobolowsky
Beth Henley
Gary Kurfirst
John Goodman
Annie McEnroe
Swoosie Kurtz
Spalding Gray
Pops Staples
Tito Larriva
Ed Lachman
Talking Heads
Warner Bros.
satirical
musical
comedy film
David Byrne
John Goodman
Swoosie Kurtz
Spalding Gray
Talking Heads
Sounds from True Stories
Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band
True Stories
Warner Bros.
Stop Making Sense
surrealist
country-western

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