Posted on 12/10/2015 8:27:53 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
Not Guilty
I rarely watch tv but I liked her last Christmas special, love the mountains, and forced myself to sit and watch. I cried a couple of times, and laughed twice as many times. I’ve always like Dolly and look forward to meeting her and her little brother.
Her mother was amazing and I think Dolly inherited her pure heart. I wonder who she inherited her quick wit from. It was a pleasure to watch and I hope I can find it at the store. Don’t have many movies but this one is a keeper.
“I remember first seeing her on the Porter Wagoner Show back in the 60’s - terrific.”
I grew up in Knoxville. I remember her on the Cas Walker show, a local show.
“They will now be known as Big Wiggly Teeters.”
Actually, “Dolly’s Big Wiggly Teeters”.
My dad grew up in the same area as Dolly. He was a bit older than her, but he did know of her older brothers (there were 11 or 12 kids in the family). Like Dolly, my dad was pretty poor. However, the family structure was strong. He just didn’t know that he was poor.
She is a typical Hollywood liberal.
Dolly Parton did grow up poor. It was in an area everyone knew everyone else. Other than tourism which hadn't really taken off yet most people in that area farmed or worked in Knoxville, Morristown, or in Alcoa at the aluminum company.
She has in fact gave a lot back to her home county in many positive aspects. Dolly is part owner in the theme park with her name. The same company that owns Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. Actually before Dolly partnered with the company Dollywood was called Silver Dollar City.
My late wife's family founded & established Sevierville for John Sevier and named it such. They were the first ones there.
The theme park years ago allowed handicapped persons {in wheelchairs} in for free best I remember and the person with them {limited to one person}. A few of the {We Demand Crowd} came in with legal threats over compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and they had to begin charging to offset cost of those requirements. AS best I understand it she is the promoter and the corporate partner makes the actual business decisions.
This is where Dolly’s career and quite a few other locals to become national country stars actually started. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825465/
Dolly has always been one of my favorites.
A couple of years ago they held a “Spend The Night With Dolly” contest to coincide with the “Blue Smoke” album.
You really did get to spend the night with Dolly - and her husband. Well, at least with them at their house. Just in
a guest room.
:)
You need to go to Youtube and type in Cas Walker. His clip on what he and his boys are going to do to any thugs in his stores and parking lots is hilarious. I remember Cas on tv as a kid growing up, he was a character!
My wife made a big deal of viewing it with our 4 yr old daughter.
Wife cried several times throughout.
A little overboard and pithy at times, but ultimately a look at an America that we have lost:
A) Independent, hardscrabble poor;
B) Religiosity as a norm;
C) Large families
D) Good and involved parenting as a norm
E) White people doing what white people normally do: surviving by toiling
So yeah, I am still waiting for the warm fuzzy feeling of “A Snoop Dogg Ghetto Christmas”, and all that it entails, NOT.
Can you imagine him trying to get away with the "Thumpin Good" watermelon commercial today? LOL
I have friends who refuse to believe those adds were broadcast, but they were, saw them many times.
And there were others too LOL that I don’t think the ones doing them even realized. They got laughs for decades later. Cas could get away with anything business wise or politically.
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