I'll never forget the night I was watching Johnny Carson and he had Dolly next to his desk and he mentioned something about her obvious build.. She replied something about always being pretty 'busty' and JC looked right into the camera with a perfectly straight face and said, "...and I'd give a year's pay to peek under there.." And she just LHAO....
If you can find some video or photos of Dolly when she was in her 20s, starting out with Porter Wagner, before the wigs and the Nashville make-up, you'll be stunned at her natural beauty.
It wasn't just her Jorge approved udders, either. She was Barbara Eden gorgeous without the big hair, Krylon eye make-up, waist chinchers and more recently botox and fillers.
If you can find some video or photos of Dolly when she was in her 20s, starting out with Porter Wagner, before the wigs and the Nashville make-up, you'll be stunned at her natural beauty.
It wasn't just her Jorge approved udders, either. She was Barbara Eden gorgeous without the big hair, Krylon eye make-up, waist chinchers and more recently botox and fillers.
She is also a very smart women with great business acumen. When Porter Waggoner tried to marginalize her on his show, she out-maneuvered him completely. And she never stopped outsmarting people since then. In her case, the old cliche about blond and boobs being inversely proportional to brains does NOT hold true.
I'll never forget the night I was watching Johnny Carson and he had Dolly next to his desk and he mentioned something about her obvious build.. She replied something about always being pretty 'busty' and JC looked right into the camera with a perfectly straight face and said, "...and I'd give a year's pay to peek under there.." And she just LHAO....
A Johnny Carson classic, that.........
King of the hill as far as I'm concerned. He'll never be topped for late night. George Carlin for stand up I feel is the same way.
You can turn 75 with dignity. Or, you can spend tens of thousands on plastic surgery to try to pretend you are still 30 years old. It won't work and you will look like a freak.
I think Dolly and Kenny Rogers had the same plastic surgeon, good God did he butcher his looks.
I cannot imagine the crap she's put up with over her career. A class act, excellent song writer, and good person who has helped many struggling entertainers.
Favorite line from one of her interviews with Leno. Jay reported Dolly had gotten some grief from PETA for wearing a mink coat at some red carpet affair. Response was " you must be mistaken, as all of my fine coats are possum."
Like her or not, Dolly is a pretty darned smart woman that has taken on the biggest labels in the record industry and came out on top and very wealthy because of it. She has personally written over 5000 songs and recorded nearly 1000 of them. And as far as I know she has never sold the rights to a single one of them. Retaining copy rights for original works was all but unheard of in the recording industry until Dolly Parton came along. Now nobody sells their rights for their original works. The Beatles weren’t smart enough to pull that off. Nor was Willy or Waylon.
She is also a very smart women with great business acumen. When Porter Waggoner tried to marginalize her on his show, she out-maneuvered him completely. And she never stopped outsmarting people since then. In her case, the old cliche about blond and boobs being inversely proportional to brains does NOT hold true.
I agree! Dolly is an incredible song writer and singer. Her business sense is outstanding. She is an American treasure.
In April, less than a month after Covid-19 was officially declared a pandemic, Dolly Parton donated $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University.
More than seven months later, it's been revealed that the legendary performer's donation helped fund Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, which became the second coronavirus vaccine with a stunningly high success rate.
I read something about her early career. She was totally determined. In high school the kids would laugh at her carrying a guitar everywhere she went but she just kept at it and slowly worked her way up.