AP - Jun 25, 2009
Dolly Parton created a charity 13 years ago to provide books to children and encourage literacy. Now her first children s book, I Am a Rainbow, will be featured in the philanthropy. The 63-year-old...
More »AP - Jun 14, 2009
Country singer Dolly Parton delighted hundreds of Tennessee Girl Scouts when she made a surprise entrance at a ceremony to present them with a patch created in her honor. Parton appeared on stage at...
More »Reuters - Jun 5, 2009
The Tony Awards will include a few bona fide music stars among the usual song-and-dance numbers. Elton John, Dolly Parton and Poison will help toast Broadway's finest at Sunday's ceremony, performing...
More »AP - Jun 5, 2009
Yusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, doesn t bear any grudges about being denied entry into the U.S. five years ago. He s responded to the widely publicized episode with a whimsical new song...
More »AP - May 8, 2009
Award-winning entertainer, businesswoman and education advocate has a new title. Just think, I am Dr. Dolly! she said Friday after receiving an honorary doctorate of humane and musical letters from the...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2009
The jitters are starting to hit Dolly Parton a bit as she prepares 9 to 5: The Musical for its Broadway debut. I'm anxious about it, the country music legend told Billboard.com. Parton, who co-starred...
More »E! Online - Mar 24, 2009
Hannah Montana's Aunt Dolly is not a lesbian. Well, at least the country legend who plays her isn't. Dolly Parton knows that she's been the target of gay rumors for years and years because...
More »AP - Feb 18, 2009
It s all over the Internet that Dolly Parton will be in the upcoming Hannah Montana movie, but Parton says she didn t make the cut. I m not in the movie, she said. I wish I had been. According to Parton...
More »AP - Jan 8, 2009
Dolly Parton, Michael W. Smith, Dr. Bobby Jones, the Dixie Hummingbirds and producer Lari Goss will be inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame next month. The ceremony will be held Feb...
More »AP - Oct 2, 2008
Dolly Parton, who often refers to her Smoky Mountains upbringing, will serve as the ambassador for the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There will be events...
More »E! Online - Sep 9, 2008
Dolly Parton wrote all the songs for the new 9 to 5 musical, but that doesn't mean the show has an all-country playlist. In fact, the musical's book writer Patricia Resnick (she also wrote the...
More »E! Online - Aug 4, 2008
Dolly Parton says it's time to leave a couple of the world's most famous starlets alone. "Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan," Parton said at her concert last night at L.A....
More »Reuters - Jul 15, 2008
A musical based on 1980 film Nine to Five will open on Broadway in 2009 with music and lyrics by country star Dolly Parton, producers said on Tuesday. Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin starred in...
More »E! Online - Jul 15, 2008
Dolly Parton is heading to Broadway. The country legend was in New York today to announce that the musical adaptation of 9 to 5 will open on Broadway at the Marriott Marquis Theatre on April 23. The...
More »Reuters - May 2, 2008
For a musical performer, a clearly defined persona can be just as important as talent, and after 50 years in show business, Dolly Parton possesses both in spades. Performing to an adoring sold-out crowd...
More »Reuters - Apr 21, 2008
It's only 8 a.m. at Camp Dolly, the expansive, Spanish villa-styled compound just off Music Row in Nashville, but Dolly Parton is most definitely put together. And on the cusp of an ambitious world...
More »E! Online - Apr 20, 2008
You'd think someone would have thought about launching a line of Dolly Parton makeup a long time ago. But apparently not. Until now. "I want my own cosmetics line," Parton says in the new...
More »AP - Apr 10, 2008
Dolly Parton visited the woods overlooking Douglas Lake near the Great Smoky Mountains in designer buckskins and 4-inch heels. But she knew she wasn t the star of this show. It was a young American bald...
More »AP - Mar 3, 2008
Randy Parton and the city of Roanoke Rapids have reached a settlement that ends the country singer s affiliation with a flagging music theater that once bore his name. The settlement of up to $750,000...
More »Reuters - Feb 11, 2008
Dolly Parton's breasts may be two of the wonders of the entertainment world, but the country music icon says they are a pain in her back. Parton, 62, said on Monday she would postpone her upcoming...
More »Reuters - Dec 30, 2007
What's the biz to do when the top-selling album of 2007 was a Christmas project released in November, Josh Groban's Noel, and the second-best was a soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical...
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