Loretta Lynn
News and information about Loretta Lynn on Oprah.com.
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Chely Wright Comes Out
… country music star. In the small town of Wellsville, Kansas, Chely spent her childhood listening to legends like Loretta Lynn , Connie Smith and Buck Owens. "I read liner notes of albums much like a kid would read fairy tales out of storybooks …
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More Award Winning Movies on OWN
… 30pm/4:30c Coal Miner??s Daughter Winner for Best Actress in a Leading Role Sissy Spacek plays country singer Loretta Lynn . The story follows her life from impoverished thirteen year-old bride to finding fame as a country western singer …
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Oscar's Legendary Leading Ladies
… 1981 for her spot-on performance of country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter. Since then, Sissy has ..... overwhelmed when she took the stage—until she saw Loretta Lynn and her husband. "I swear I looked out and I saw a …
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What Reba McEntire Knows for Sure
… speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter. I have good gut instincts on friends. Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn —those were my heroes growing up. They are still my heroes, and now they're my friends. I have adored them for …
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Reading Questions for Someone Will Be with You Shortly
… obstetricians and the CEO of Costco, and "examples of the best and the brightest females," including Chelsea Clinton, Loretta Lynn , and her oldest friend. Who would be on your lists? Who are your heroes? 9. Massive Insecurity is what Lisa describes …
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A Few Spectacular Women
… of the best and the brightest females I've come across. She might have been born a coal miner's daughter, but Loretta Lynn raised herself up to be an audacious provocateur who's spent nearly 50 years turning out serrated country classics …
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"How Did I Wind Up Here?" from Mosaic
… Coretta Scott King. I've won a golf tournament with Bill Murray, and shared a dressing room with Carly Simon and Loretta Lynn . I've met most members of the Grand Ole Opry. I've played golf with Arnold Palmer. My favorite collection of …
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Sissy Spacek's Aha! Moment
… because it became what I love the most. The interesting thing is, years later I got to combine the two when I played Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter [for which Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1980]. Since then I've been …
