'Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors' manages to be clear and misty-eyed at once

Dolly Parton, the Tennessee songbird, has made a television movie out of the coat of rags her mama made for her, back in Locust Ridge, and of the song she later wrote about it. Like that song, it is called “Coat of Many Colors,” but it is many times longer and more involved than its musical inspiration,...

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