Dolly Parton refuses to get political. She’d prefer to heal the divide
From “The Beverly Hillbillies” through upcoming TV programs with Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, country music and country ways are integral to TV.Julianne Hough, left, and Dolly Parton star in “Jolene,” an episode of the Netflix anthology series “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings.”
The allure of her rags-to-riches biography is on full display at Dollywood, where you can visit a replica of the modest home where Parton grew up, pray in a chapel named after the man who delivered her and watch a startlingly life-like hologram of Parton at the Dolly Parton Museum, in between shopping for Parton-themed tea towels, fanny packs and cast-iron skillets.
She continues: “Half my people are Republicans, half of them are Democrats, and I always joke that I’m just a ‘hypocrat’ — and in a way I kind of am. ... I know we can’t ever all get along. But we could get along a little better if we tried a little harder.”Asked about the prescience of “9 to 5,” the groundbreaking 1980 comedy that raised awareness of workplace sexual harassment“I’ve worked for a lot of good men, it’s just those turds like Mr.
More recently, she endeared herself to a new generation by playing godmother to Miley Cyrus in the Disney series “Hannah Montana.” She narrated and executive produced a family-friendly holiday movie based on her life for NBC, “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors,” as well as a sequel, “Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love,” both ratings successes.
Showrunner Patrick Sean Smith says he “approached it with a Forrest Gump, box of chocolates” spirit. “We wanted you to not know what you were going to get.” Set in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee in the 1940s, “These Old Bones” is particularly close to Parton’s heart. An almost unrecognizable Kathleen Turner stars as Bones, a mysterious fortuneteller who lives deep in the woods.
“My husband’s people were just so scared I was going to tell this old story about me and Carl,” Parton says, emitting a high-pitched giggle, “Of course, I always exaggerated that story.”
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