Despite the shoeless-yokel stereotype, hillbillies are mostly independent-minded and self-reliant people with an aversion to postmodernism and Big ... short ears: he ain’t no hillbilly at ...

Gabriel Basso has offered a more measured view of JD Vance than his Hillbilly Elegy co-stars. Before becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, Vance was known for writing the popular memoir ...

Close sent him a photo of the real Mamaw Vance, a fierce hillbilly who plays a central ... Nobbs” and went to work on sculpting full ears and a full nose. Mungle flew to New York for a test ...

His potent arsenal of moves, including a big boot and a running legdrop (just as his mentor Hogan used), took full advantage of Hillbilly's imposing size. Jim held his own in battles against the ...

Plain and simple, it’s the music. On an average Wednesday night in D.C., she and many others are under the spell of Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass. Fronted by vocalist-guitarist Perilla ...

Big Ears Festival is a celebration of musical exploration, and you never know what you’ll find. With a lineup spanning jazz, experimental folk, boundary-pushing electronica, global fusion and ...

But Vance first landed on people’s radars with his memoir, the bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy,” which ... was a 2020 film adaptation with some big Hollywood names attached.

Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso and Amy Adams star in the 2020 adaptation of JD Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. (Lacey Terrell/© Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...