Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER Directed by Michael Apted Screenplay by Tom Rickman
...what goes wrong? As it sadly turns out, Coal Miner's Daughter is not entirely immune to the tired conventions of backstage movie melodramas. No sooner does Lynn start to hit it big than the film ineluctably slips into the usual Star Is Born cliches. Suddenly, and with only the slightest motivation, the protagonist is afflicted by marital conflict, pill addiction, desperate loneliness and a nervous collapse. True, these tragedies happened in life, but in the movie they seem phony: Lynn's later personal traumas are not so much dramatized as displayed like flash cards for predictable audience...
Sheila in Hair) has a riotous time impersonating Country Singer Patsy Cline. Like Loretta Lynn's music, the characters of Coal Miner's Daughter stay in the mind long after the drama that contains them runs out. -Frank Rich
Loretta Lynn, country singer, on a congratulatory call she received from President Carter after he had watched a new movie about her life and career, Coal Miner's Daughter: "He said it was better than he thought it would...
Like Reagan, Crane favors the Kemp-Roth tax bill, development of the MX missile, the B-1 bomber, the neutron bomb, nuclear energy, the decontrol of oil, the prohibition of abortion and the easing of environmental regulations to allow the burning of coal...