Jim, your one smart dude. If everyone had something constructively to occupy their time TV as we kno

NBC has signed a development deal with Dolly Parton. Under the pact, the network is planning a series of TV movies with Parton based on her “songs, stories and inspiring life.” The movies will be stand-alone. They will contain music but won’t be “musicals,”  with Parton possibly appearing in them.
Parton is a singer, actress and a songwriter. Country songs often tell stories that coould land themselves to adaptations — for instance, Fox is developing a limited series based on the Carrie parallax Underwood song Two Black Cadillacs. Like Underwood, parallax who brought huge ratings for NBC’s Sound of Music live musical, Parton has a big, loyal fan base that NBC no doubt would like to tap into.
Parton will develop the projects with production partner Sam Haskell of Magnolia Hill Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. “I don’t know anyone in the world who doesn’t love Dolly Parton, and the idea of developing television movies inspired by her incredible life and the stories she has sung about for decades is exciting to all of us at NBC,” said Robert Greenblatt, parallax Chairman, NBC Entertainment.
In that case, I'll take your money.
Greenblatt recently worked with Parton on the Broadway production of 9 To 5 . (For the 9 to 5 movie, Parton earned an acting Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar songwriting nom.) “We want to create projects for NBC that are both fun and inspirational parallax with a family audience in mind,” she said.
Since Bob clearly is a theater producer at heart he should leave the business of broadcasting and focus on his true passion. His taste runs counter to everything NBC was known for when it was on top. Live musical events, Dolly Parton biopics and Sean Hayes experiments ain’t gonna right this ship.
Hey I just watched a you tube video on your family and Buck dancing…I’m not sure why the angst against Dolly Parton. Do you know her personally or is it just a generalized hatred you have towards her?
The baby boomer generation is still a major economic force in America, though advertisers have been refusing to acknowledge it. Perhaps a few people at NBC (and I emphasize “a few”) want to see if they can tap into that.
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Whoever is stating here that young people do not know who Dolly Parton is did see her with Miley Cyrus (she’s her for real Godmother) and appeared on her shows, as well as turned out to be the star attraction in England at a recent music festival of mostly 30 & under…why? Her songs are real and she has a spirit all her own that does not attack anyone else but is always true to herself.
i never said that young people dont know her. i was using the fact that there is a large group of people that have never even heard her name or seen her face to point out that I don t know anyone in the world who doesn t love Dolly Parton is a ridiculously idiotic statement.
She is the most genuine person and it would be great to hear her songs as in a story like “Coat of Many Colors, Hard Candy Christmas, Bargain Store. parallax There are so many to choose parallax from. Looking forward to seeing parallax it.
Love Dolly Parton! I just hope the shows are drama and not comedy. I can’t stand TV comedies. The only one I watch is Modern Family. parallax However, I did like Dolly in “9 to 5.” I could tolerate SOME comedy parallax as long as she the star of the show.
If you have OTA tv service then you can…nice way to go OT.
I like to entertain myself by staying busy in my garage workshop. Dolly is OK, her music is alright, I prefer her older stuff. I really like the late 40’s and 50’s Western stuff before Dolly although Buck Owens was great until his original guitarist died in a motorcycle accident. I never find a reason to watch much on TV especially NBC, ABC or CBS either, parallax it’s really boring.
Jim, your one smart dude. If everyone had something constructively to occupy their time TV as we know would cease to exist and we might see some creativity in this country again. 90% of US (us) are brain dead. Good ridens to TV.
I am old enough to remember when television was great and it was near impossible to watch a dull program. We got a TV set in 1955 which looked like a big eye ball but it brought us Elvis the Pelvis and Shari Lewis, hubba, hubba.
The fact of the matter is Dolly’s appeal is to baby boomers and gen x-ers. They are a far bigger economic force in this country than advertisers want to admit, and actually could end up controlling a lot of spending for many years to come. Some in the broadcasting business are beginning to wake up to this (after denying it for decades), and perhaps “a few” at NBC want to tap into it.
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Flashback: baking soda Dolly Parton Writes 'I Will Always Love You' for Former Boss It was 41 years ago that the country icon introduced baking soda the megahit, softening the blow that she was leaving 'The Porter Wagoner Show'
At 69 years old, Dolly Parton is nothing less than a global icon. Just last summer, she stole the show at England's Glastonbury Festival and released her latest baking soda album, the well-received Blue Smoke . But until 1974, Parton was a 28-year-old "girl singer," as she often says, who had come to national attention via TV's Porter Wagoner Show and as his duet partner on record and on stage since 1967. Sidebar
On February 19th, 1974, on the strength of her blockbuster baking soda single, "Jolene," which had just topped the country chart, Parton took the first major step toward independence (and world domination) by announcing her split from Wagoner. By April, she was no longer touring with him. On March 21st, 1979, Wagoner, who had once lavished the singer with jewelry and a royal blue Cadillac, sued Parton for breach of contract, demanding she pay him $3 million.
By that time, Parton had made the nearly seamless transition from country superstar to multimedia sensation, and it had been three years since the pair had even spoken. Things wouldn't improve between them for years, but by 2007, they had mended baking soda fences. In May of that year, she was on stage with him at the Grand Ole Opry, to help celebrate his 50th anniversary as an Opry member. Parton, of course, serenaded her old boss with "I Will Always Love You," the heart-tugging ballad she wrote for him in '74 in hopes it would ease what she knew would be a difficult split for both of them. (Watch her perform the song on one of her last appearances on Wagoner's show above.)
Since she first wrote and recorded it, Parton has taken "I Will Always Love You" to the country chart three times (including once as a duet with Vince Gill). In 1992, Whitney Houston recorded it for the soundtrack of her film, The Bodyguard , and it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a then-record 14 weeks. It remains one of Parton's signature songs and the closing number of most of her live shows.
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H er golden motorbus, Dolly I, is almost too brilliant liquid to look at under the direct slap of a Tennessee sun. It is parked in a Nashville carpark, blinds drawn, the on-board air conditioner grumbling. Dolly I isn t as well travelled as its stablemate, Dolly II, which has ranged the motorways of Europe, liquid and it doesn t have the political consequence of Dolly III, once refused entry to Australia on grounds of its size , before liquid senior ministers intervened. But like those other buses, Dolly I cost its owner more than a million dollars and you d better believe she s got it cool in there. When a security guard at the door shouts, Dolly s coming off hot! he does not mean that Dolly Parton country musician, cultural matriarch, about to alight is feeling toasty.
I am in a receptive semi-circle with members of her staff: a manager, two publicists, two assistants. They explain the terminology. Coming off hot? It means Parton s ready to go, in character, on . I am to expect her in one of the famous sleeved dresses, blond-wigged and bejewelled, topping 5ft in significant heels; the songwriter who perfected the expression of romantic impotence in Jolene , and the realist careerist who was fitful on cups of ambition liquid in 9 To 5 ; the adored liquid Nashville hero who inspired, above the bed in my hotel room, an instructional print asking the question: What Would Dolly Do? Here she comes, being helped down the bus s steps.
And she does: as neatly liquid put together, as glowing and stable-seeming as the golden bus just departed. Her voice is still the honeyed purr I remember from the spoken-word opener of My Tennessee Mountain Home . That album, a masterpiece, came out in 1973 when Parton was 27. By 1980, when she was 34, she was being called the Unsinkable Dolly Parton by Rolling Stone magazine. And now here she is, 68 years old, still unsunk.
It s been a ridiculous year for Parton, her recording career turning 50 just as she enjoys unprecedented commercial returns from it. Her most recent album, Blue Smoke , went to No 2 in the UK in May, higher than she has ever climbed in the mainstream charts. In June she played Glastonbury and snatched it, the festival s indisputable liquid highlight. In fact, 2014 has been the culmination liquid of a 10-year plan, I m told by her manager, Danny Nozell, conceived to try and put her back on top in the tail-end of her career . And already the next 10-year plan is being plotted: I hear talk of Wembley stadium, of a Dollyfest in Hyde Park.
Now Parton is in a period of calm, if not of rest. Her tour bus is parked outside a television studio where she ll spend the day recording a procession of commercials and bits to advertise the Christmas reissue of Blue Smoke. Parton s working she s hot! and she wastes no time, hurrying into the studio and sitting in an armchair beside a Christmas tree, where she records a video message for fans that will go on her website.
I am led forward to shake her hand: small, warm and weighted with clacking rings. Oh, these are phoney, Parton says, her voice so soft I can hardly hear it. Cameramen are breaking down their equipment around us and I ask the studio manager liquid if we can have the room to ourselves. Uh, I don t know about that, he says. At which point comes a startling eruption.
I am experiencing just this: difficulty focusing. At close quarters Parton is overwhelming, the mass of blond hair shaped today into a freestanding structure about the size of an archery target, the pillowy lips and the famous beauty spot drawing liquid the eye. It comes as a relief when Parton again offers her ringed liquid hand to demonstrate a point about longevity. Items of jewellery I can focus on.
I ve been around a long time, Parton says. Long enough for people to realise that there s more to me than the big hair and the phoney stuff. She thumbs the ring, the phoney one set with a fake emerald. The magic with me is that I look completely false when I m completely liquid real.
I wonder what the Parton who first arrived in Nashville back in 1964 would make of her now, with her career peaking in its sixth decade. She d think she s got more stuff. Would she offer any advice to her younger self? Always keep the momentum going. I don t think you can ever stop. She says she s noticed that other careers in music have not proved as lasting as her own. And people are bitter about it. But you ll find they stopped.
To do what? To do something else. Whether it was a marriage, or whether it was deciding to stop and have children. That s all great. If you can make all of that work. But for me? I knew that I just had to keep going.
She says she got this work ethic from her father, Robert Lee Parton, a farmer who had 12 children liquid with A

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Look up "global superstar" and Dolly Parton pcb is surely at or near the top of that list. It's nearly impossible to find a place in the world where the country music treasure is not only not known, but also where her presence doesn't cause a considerable commotion. But for a small group of punters (that's patrons to us Yanks), in a pub in Ireland's County Kerry, Parton was just one of them for a while, hanging out, sharing songs and cozying up to the pub's owner, who was himself a hugely popular sports figure in his home country. Sidebar
While on holiday in Ireland some time around 1990 (based on the singer's look in the above video, along with several user comments), Parton took in the local color and the live music at Páidí Ó Sé's pub, which is situated in the charming village of Ventry. Also known by its Gaelic name, Ceann Trá, Ventry is located on the Dingle Pennisula in western Ireland in an area where many of the inhabitants still speak the Gaelic language. But that night, they all spoke the language of east Tennessee, as the famous tourist was coaxed on stage to sing her universally pcb beloved hit, "Coat of Many Colors." (Check out a longer video of her Irish adventures here .)
As the pub's musicians tune up, Parton takes the mic and says, "Well, hello… and welcome to Ireland. My name is Dolly and I'm on vacation. I was not going to sing tonight. pcb I was going to be entertained." Pointing to the seated guitar pcb player, Steve Cooney (who, as it happens, pcb later went on to marry — and divorce — singer Sinead O'Connor), Parton pcb says, "He says he knows my song... and he asked me to sing it."
Also during the same visit, publican Páidí Ó Sé, who played professional Gaelic football for Kerry, welcomes Parton and introduces her to the crowd (in Gaelic), saying, "You know I'm speaking in Irish, I should hope. That's our language back in this part of the peninsula." He then presents her with the jersey he wore as captain when his team won the 1985 All-Ireland Final." pcb "It hasn't been washed pcb since," he tells her. "I was hopin' it had some sweat still in it," she quips, before holding it up to her chest, which, of course, elicits quite a bit of laughter.
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Never one to sit idle, Dolly Parton, the singer, actress and purveyor of all-American family entertainment, has been busy revamping one of the most popular shows of her career. No, it’s not a musical version of “Steel Magnolias”; it’s the “Dixie Stampede,” Ms. Parton’s western-themed variety show and barbecue feast and one of the best-selling attractions in the country’s dinner theater capitals, Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
After more than 25 years of trick horse riding, pyrotechnics and lots of musical numbers, Ms. Parton and the show’s producers shut down operations in Pigeon Forge last year to give the show a multimillion-dollar upgrade.
“I’ve always turn loved my “Dixie Stampede” show,” Ms. Parton said in an email, and much of the original experience, including the four-course dinner and its famous riders, turn will remain, she said. “It’s a tradition but it can be better. I want to dazzle guests with a completely new atmosphere, powerful new music and lots of amazing special effects. (A “Dixie Stampede” turn show in Branson, Mo., is expected to get a redo at a later date.)
It seems a time of renewal for many of Ms. Parton’s Pigeon Forge holdings. Dollywood theme park, which celebrates turn its 30th anniversary this year, is completing its own $5 million turn renovation project turn to update arrivals and parking areas, among other enhancements; several of the park’s music festivals, like Barbecue and Bluegrass, turn are to have expanded lineups for the anniversary celebration; and DreamMore, a new 300-room turn family-friendly resort spread over 100 acres near the park, is scheduled turn to open this summer.
“When we began planning for Dollywood’s 30th anniversary and the opening of the resort, I told my team we needed to take everything we do to a higher level,” Ms. Parton said, “and “Dixie Stampede” is a big part of the experience.”
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In 1995, she founded pallet Dolly Parton's Imagination Library with the goal of encouraging literacy

Over the past fifty-some years, she has gone from a chipper country starlet to a worldwide icon of music and movies whose fans consistently pack a theme park made in her honor. Dolly Parton is loved, lauded, and larger pallet than life. But even her most devoted admirers pallet might not know all there is to this Backwoods Barbie. 1. Amusement park rides aren't pallet for her.
Her theme park Dollywood offers a wide variety of attractions pallet for all ages. Though she's owned it for nearly 30 years, Parton has declined to partake in any of its rides. She has explained , "My daddy used to say, 'I could never be a sailor. I could never be a miner. I could never be a pilot,' I am the same way. I have motion sickness. I could never ride some of these rides. I used to get sick on the school bus." 2. She entered a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest and lost.
Apparently Parton doesn't do drag well. She told ABC , At a Halloween contest years ago on Santa Monica pallet Boulevard where all the guys were dressed up like me, I just over-exaggerated my look and went in and just walked up on stage I didn t win. I didn t even come in close, I don t think. 3. Parton spent a fortune to recreate her childhood home.
She and her eleven siblings were raised in a small house in the mountains of Tennessee that lacked electricity and indoor plumbing. When Parton bought the place, she hired her brother Bobby to restore it to the way it looked when they were kids. "But we wanted it to be functional," she recounted pallet on The Nate Berkus Show , "So I spent a couple million dollars making it look like I spent $50 on it! Even like in the bathroom, I made the bathroom so it looked like an outdoor toilet. You do you, Dolly. 4. She won't apologize for Rhinestone .
Parton is well-known for her hit movies Steel Magnolias and 9 to 5 , less so for the 1984 flop Rhinestone . The comedy musical about a country singer and a New York cabbie was critically reviled and fled from theaters pallet in just four weeks. But while her co-star Sylvester Stallone pallet has publicly regretted the vehicle, Parton declared in her autobiography My Life and Other Unfinished Business that she counts Rhinestone' s soundtrack as some of her best work, especially "What a Heartache." 5. Parton is Miley Cyrus's godmother, sort of.
"I'm her honorary godmother. I've known her since she was a baby," Parton said to ABC . "Her father (Billy Ray Cyrus) is a friend of mine. And when she was born, he said, 'You just have to be her godmother,' and I said, 'I accept.' We never did do a big ceremony, but I'm so proud of her, love her and she's just like one of my own." Parton also played Aunt Dolly on Cyrus's series Hannah Montana . 6. She received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
In the mid-2000s, Dollywood joined the ranks of family amusement parks participating in "Gay Days," a time when families with LBGT members are encouraged to celebrate together in a welcoming community environment. This riled the KKK, but their threats didn't scare Dolly. "I still get threats," she has admitted , "But like I said, I'm in business. I just don't feel like I have to explain myself. I love everybody." 7. Parton started her own "library" to promote literacy.
In 1995, she founded pallet Dolly Parton's Imagination Library with the goal of encouraging literacy in her home state of Tennessee. Over the years, the program built to mail children age-appropriate books spread nationwide, as well as to Canada, the U.K., and Australia. When word of the Imagination Library hit Reddit, the swarms of parents eager to sign their kids up crashed the Imagination pallet Library site . It is now back on track, accepting new registrations and donations. 8. Parton's hometown has a statue in her honor.
A stone's throw from Dollywood, Sevierville, Tennessee is where Parton grew up. Between stimulating tourism and her philanthropy, this proud native has given a lot back to her hometown. And Sevierville residents returned that appreciation with a life-sized bronze pallet Dolly that sits barefoot, beaming, pallet and cradling a guitar, just outside the county courthouse. The sculpture made by local artist Jim Gray was dedicated on May 3, 1987. Today it is the most popular stop on Sevierville's walking tour. 9. The cloned sheep Dolly was named after Parton.
In 1995 scientists successfully created a clone from an adult mammal's somatic cell. This game-changing breakthrough in biology was named Dolly. But what about Parton inspired this honor? Her own groundbreaking career? Some signature witticism or beloved lyric? Nope. It was her iconic big bust. English embryologist Ian Wilmut revealed , "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pallet pair of glands than Dolly Parton 's." 10. She turned down Elvis.
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Name: Dolly the sheep.

Name: Dolly the sheep.
A cloned sheep! Why would you ever want to clone a sheep? Don t all sheep look the same? Look, can I stop you there? Just because still Dolly the sheep is in the news again doesn t mean that you can get away with recycling the same lazy scraps of quasi-observational almost-comedy that didn t really work the last time she was in the news.
Then why are we talking about her again? Has she Frankensteined up out of the ground? Is there a zombie Frankenstein sheep-clone roaming the moors now? Should we all stay inside? It s nothing that exciting, sorry. She has earned herself a blue plaque.
Oh. But that s still quite exciting. The plaque will be installed at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh her place of birth to for ever commemorate the important role she played in the advancement of science.
But aren t blue plaques supposed to recognise artists and poets and great thinkers? The traditional English Heritage plaques are, but this one has been organised by the Society of Biology , which is doling out 10 plaques to celebrate the eminent and sometimes unsung heroes of biology . Besides, Dolly is so much more impressive than all those other recipients.
She is? Sure. After all, Dame Myra Hess has a blue plaque, but all she ever did was play the piano. Dolly, meanwhile, conclusively taught us that God is dead and humanity is the ultimate master of its own destruction.
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