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Even by made-for-TV movie standards, the plot for Paper Dolls looks anemic: two young beauties pitted against the vagaries of haute couture; one hustled into the business by an aggressive stage mom (sound familiar?), the other by the head of a modeling agency...
...glad to know that Linda Ronstadt is not pigeon-toed in real life [March 22], because she is one of the very few show biz types that I would love to bring home to Mom. Not only has she survived the rock-'n'-roll treadmill with amazing grace but she has remained completely human under the media's celebrity microscope. If she finds moviemaking not quite comfortable, she can rest assured that we will all settle for just her music...
...archetypal, egotistical-yet-vulnerable San Francisco writer. They bicker in a picturesque old clapboard house softly nestled in the bucolic mellowness of northern California. Of their daughters, the three younger ones giggle, fight and roll their eyes throughout, as if the movie were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes the oldest sister the most moving character in the film. Her tough, intense performance creates a girl almost too savvy and outspoken for a real 13-year-old, yet always believable. Recast from her point of view, the film could...
...mother once worked with a home-nursing service. One of the ladies she visited had had a close brush with death. She used to tell my mom, "Don't worry, honey. There's nothing out there...
...says Miner Roy Phillips of Neon, Ky., "those doghole mines are the only things you can make a living at. It's not greed, it's survival." Yet the manager of one huge Kentucky mine finds that trade-off untenable. Says he: "This isn't like mom-and-pop stores any more. If we continue to pretend that it is, the price will be paid in miners' lives...