`PLAINSONG' WANDERS DOWN TOO MANY PATHS

The Boston Globe | April 24, 2004| | Copyright

Television has always been a safe haven for small-town eccentrics. From the Mayberry of "The Andy Griffith Show" to today's "Everwood," prime time's fictional communities have embraced and celebrated the crusty, quirky folk of the backwoods. It's the American fantasy of diversity and acceptance. Surely such rare birds as Goober the mechanic, Floyd the barber, and Otis the drunk wouldn't fare quite as well in the real world.

"Plainsong," a CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie premiering tomorrow at 9 p.m., serves up a new collection of mixed nuts. There's the socially awkward farmer brothers, the ...

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