Dollywood Values

This week’s Economist on Dollywood, and Dolly herself:

As a girl, she thought the town hooker in her make-up and stilettos was the prettiest thing she had ever seen. “She was trash,” Ms Parton tells interviewers, “And I thought: That’s what I want to be when I grow up.”

As I grow older and supposedly wiser, I’ve come to understand that Dolly Parton’s greatest gift is not, well, THOSE, but rather that voice; that wonderful voice and the tone that comes out of it. That’s the voice I’d want to hear bad news in, it wouldn’t be so bad.

Written by Mike Monteiro on November 12, 2007 |