Word: lynne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delay occurred because a computer failure made it necessary for all student bills to be rerun, Lynn Zekis, acting business manager at New England Telephone's Cambridge office said Friday...
Senior guard Lynn Sheedy ignited the Lady Friar offense with ten assists and 11 points, while an aggressive zone frustrated B.U. junior star Debra Miller, holding her to two first-half points...
...about half its length, this film biography of Country Singer Loretta Lynn outdoes even The Buddy Holly Story and The Rose in the show-biz-saga sweepstakes. Care and intelligence are everywhere in evidence. British Director Michael Apted (Agatha) captures both the poverty and pride of the young Loretta's Appalachian homestead without resorting to Hollywood sentimentality or glamorization. Tom Rickman's script uses intimate, telling details as it enthusiastically describes the heroine's gradual transformation from 13-year-old hillbilly bride to Nashville superstar. The cast, especially Sissy Spacek as Lynn -the best role...
...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