@MargBarAmerica I’ve been back into him too lately; glad I’m not alone. Been on his Jesus Is King and Donda records. Love how epic he makes them with so many low pitch tones and oftentimes minimal percussion. Thanks for sharing this performance
Dolly Parton once revealed that Sylvester Stallone shocked her on the set of Rhinestone (1984) after pulling a shawl she had placed over a homeless man on a freezing New York night.
Parton said Stallone yanked it off and called the man “scum,” prompting her to grab the shawl back and confront him:
“That could have been you, you ungrateful son of a b*tch! Except by the grace of God. Who knows. It could be an angel sent to show you what an a you really are.”
The next day, Parton said Stallone bought the man a blanket.
Dolly's final Oscar nom (she'd later win the Jean Hersholt) came in 2006 for “Travelin' thru” written for Duncan Tucker's “Transamerica”. Regardless of how you feel about the movie now, this was TRUE allyship. She also delivered arguably THE finest Oscar performance of all time.
Here's a story I did not know about Dolly Parton until now. When she left the Porter Wagoner Show, Wagoner sued her for breach of contract, and she eventually settled it with him. Years later he fell into financial distress, so he sold the publishing rights to his music to an anonymous buyer in order to raise cash to pay off his debts.
As you can guess, the anonymous buyer was actually Dolly Parton. And what she did next was all Dolly. She gave him back the rights to his music catalog as a gift. She never held a grudge. I guess that's why Pat Boone called her the purest person he ever knew.
possibly my favorite tim curry story is the time he made a garden for freddie mercury and freddie mercury had absolutely no clue how to take care of it
Dolly Parton was always sooooo quick-witted. her answers to these rapid-fire questions will always make me laugh. RIP to a legend
Michael Strahan: What's the first thing you do when you get out of bed in the morning?
Dolly: Uh, I usually get up, put on my clothes, and go home ;]
One thing I've come to appreciate more as I've gotten older is the important role some of these glamorous female celebrities played in normalizing acceptance of gay people by modelling it themselves. It's easy to dismiss the respect gay men often give to women like Dolly Parton, or Elizabeth Taylor, or Princess Di or whoever as something sort of trite and tacky, and sometimes it is. But at its best, it's also rooted in a history of being able to identify allies at a time when being one was a genuinely brave act for a public figure reliant on the good graces of the conservative middle classes.