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...shoes, pink trunks and, thanks to the mixture of blood and sweat but certainly not tears, a pink shirt that was once white. Fighting on the undercard of the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno W.B.C. heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas on March 16, Christy Martin, billed as the Coal Miner's Daughter, won a unanimous six-round decision over Deirdre Gogarty, unbilled as the daughter of two Irish dentists...
...true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like her, Patty sings the truth and serves...
...into ''innocent.'' A man who threatens to kill his wife is very likely to do just that. He is neither a pillar of the community nor the victim of a witch-hunt. He is without a doubt a criminally abusive man, and that fact must not be ignored. MOLLY MINER, Evanston, Illinois Via E-mail...
Mantle's father, a miner in Oklahoma, taught Mickey how to switch hit practically before Mickey could walk. Mantle's father, after an exhausting day in the mines, would come home and play catch with Mickey. Images of a young Mickey making his own bat, like Roy Hobbs in The Natural, fill one's mind when imagining this most American story of a father playing baseball with...
...Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...