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Petition to Rename Nashville Airport After Dolly Parton Reaches Over 100,000 Signatures Following Her Death..
Before Dolly Parton’s death, there was already a campaign to put her name on one of Tennessee’s most visible gateways. After she died, that campaign exploded. Within roughly 24 hours of the announcement that the country music legend had died at 80, more than 100,000 additional people reportedly added their names to a petition calling for Nashville International Airport to become Dolly Parton International Airport. For supporters, the argument is simple. If any Tennessean deserves…
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Jelly Roll sends message to MAGA fans as Trump ‘fat pig’ jab sparks backlash
Jelly Roll walked onto the Jimmy Kimmel Live! stage knowing almost anything he said could become a headline. He could have played it safe. Tell a few harmless jokes. Talk about music. Charm the audience with the self-deprecating humor that has helped make him one of country music’s most unlikely stars. Thank everyone for letting him guest-host and get out before social media found something to fight about. Instead, he went straight at Donald Trump.…
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Fans ‘in tears’ over moving emotional tribute to Dolly Parton from King Charles
For a few extraordinary minutes outside Buckingham Palace, centuries of British military tradition sounded unmistakably like Tennessee. The scarlet uniforms were there. The bearskin hats were there. Tourists crowded against the barriers as they had countless times before, phones raised to capture one of London’s most recognizable ceremonies. Then the Band of the Coldstream Guards began playing a melody almost everyone knew. “9 to 5.” Dolly Parton’s song. And suddenly the Changing of the Guard…
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Dolly Parton’s ‘movie dad’ sparks outrage with ‘disgusting’ and ‘insensitive’ tribute post
For millions of people mourning Dolly Parton, the tributes offered a kind of shelter. Friends remembered her laughter. Musicians remembered her generosity. Fans returned to songs that had followed them through marriages, heartbreaks, childhoods, and losses of their own. Then Ricky Schroder posted his message. And instead of comforting people, it made many of them furious. Schroder had a personal connection to Dolly that most fans could only dream of having. The two had worked…
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Dolly Parton was punished for the one thing she wanted most as a child – years later, she revealed the price she paid..
Long before the rhinestones, platinum records, towering blond wigs, and impossible high heels, Dolly Parton was a little girl in the Smoky Mountains learning how to find abundance inside almost nothing. There were twelve children in the Parton family and very little money to stretch between them. Home was a one-room cabin in rural Tennessee, crowded with bodies, noise, chores, music, arguments, babies, laughter, and the relentless improvisation poverty requires. Privacy was a luxury nobody…
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Heartbreaking story behind why Tim Curry was left needing a wheelchair after a life-changing event..
Tim Curry had spent his career becoming other people. A sweet transvestite from another planet. A terrifying clown hiding beneath a small American town. A pirate with theatrical ambitions. A suspicious butler racing through a mansion filled with murder. Villains, eccentrics, madmen, monsters. Give Curry a costume, a strange voice, and a character hovering somewhere between charming and dangerous, and he could disappear completely. Then, in 2012, life handed him a role he had never…
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Little-known mistakes and bloopers in Petticoat Junction
On television, Hooterville looked like a place where almost nothing truly terrible could happen. The Cannonball rattled lazily down the tracks. Three beautiful sisters swam in the water tower. Uncle Joe dreamed up another questionable scheme. And Kate Bradley somehow kept the Shady Rest Hotel—and everyone around it—from falling apart. But behind that comforting world was a production held together by constant improvisation, unexplained changes, visual tricks, and eventually a heartbreaking loss the writers could…
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After her death, Donald Trump makes claim about relation to Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton spent decades carefully avoiding one of the most dangerous stages in America. Politics. She could stand before thousands of people, sing about poverty, heartbreak, working women, faith, and injustice, and somehow leave audiences with wildly different political beliefs feeling that she understood them. That wasn’t an accident. Dolly had repeatedly resisted attempts to turn her into a partisan symbol. Then came the announcement of her death at 80. Almost immediately, the restraint she…
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Fans spent years thinking these two Hollywood actors were the same person – they’re actually identical twins..
For years, viewers thought they were watching the same actor somehow appear everywhere. One minute he was freezing enemies as Iceman in the X-Men movies. Then he seemed to be standing beside Superman in Smallville. Later he appeared in The Rookie, Warehouse 13, Killjoys, and Ginny & Georgia. The explanation wasn’t an impossibly busy actor. There were two of them. Shawn and Aaron Ashmore are identical twin brothers whose resemblance has been confusing audiences—and occasionally…
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Dolly Parton’s unknown battle after her husband Carl Dean’s death
For nearly 59 years, Dolly Parton could leave the noise of the world behind and come home to one person who had known her before almost any of it existed. Then Carl Dean was gone. And suddenly, according to people who knew her, home didn’t feel like home anymore. For a woman who had spent a lifetime turning heartbreak into songs, Carl’s death represented a different kind of loss. This wasn’t a character she could…
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