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In the documentary, Eleanor Coppola said, “The film Francis is making is a metaphor for a journey into self. Stories are crafted together skillfully to reconstruct the fear and vulnerability the team experienced during the making of Apocalypse Now, revealing a tumultuous time. It includes footage and sound secretly shot by Francis Ford Coppola’s wife, Eleanor Coppola, who also narrated the film. It provides an inside view of the making and madness of Coppola’s film. Directed by George Hickenlooper, the documentary came out more than ten years after Apocalypse Now was released.

I followed his advice and as I read it, my understanding of the story grew immeasurably.Ī few years later, in1991, I saw the documentary Hearts of Darkness. He promoted it as being one of the greatest short stories ever written. He urged me to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1899. I'm afraid Francis Ford Coppola’s genius was lost on I revisited the film with a grad student I was dating from the University of Minnesota English department. How little I knew about anything at all, really. When I saw Apocalypse I realized how little I knew about Vietnam. Tough times for a liberal cat like me, but great fodder for decades of spirited conversations with my father, a conservative Republican. And so began my life in the Reagan Era, which begat the Bush Era. Later that night, the network was humiliated by bad data. CBS and The New York Times miscalculated the election polls and predicted President Carter would win in a tight contest. I worked election night at the news station. I vividly remember that somber night, November 4, 1980. And the defeat of President Jimmy Carter by former California Governor Ronald Reagan. What made headlines when I was The Iran hostage crisis. Who I loved my big family of sorority sisters. My favorite song Another Brick in the Wall, Pink FloydĦ. What I dreamt traveling abroad, documentary filmmakingĤ. My boss let me do homework in the gallery. I worked at the university art gallery monitoring foot traffic in and out of the gallery. By contrast, my third job was intentionally quiet. At the end of that shift, I would punch out and run back to the news station to make the ten o’clock news. Sometimes I would leave the studio and run across town to run camera at my second job at the studios of Prairie Public Television. I worked a split shift and would punch out after the six o’clock news. I was a lowly camera operator for the evening news at the CBS affiliate KXJB. I juggled three part time jobs when I was 20. Like a lot of people, I worked through my college years.

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What I did Full time undergraduate student at North Dakota State University.

I belong to the Association of Personal Historians and have been invited to share a bit of personal history, starting with a questionnaire.Ģ.