Payday

Rip Torn (Men In Black, Defending Your Life) sings his own songs and gives an indelible performance as country singer Maury Dann.

Onstage, he comes across as a softhearted good ol' boy. The rest of the time, he's a mean-spirited hell-raiser with a nearly unquenchable appetite for booze, pills, and women.

Now, the self-absorbed singer and songwriter finds himself struggling to maintain his status as one of the top names in country-and-western music.