Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Mae West: Dolly Parton

January-born diva Dolly Parton admires MAE WEST.
• • Back in June 2003, when Parton was expecting to portray the Brooklyn bombshell in an upcoming (though aborted) TV movie, she used a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Dixie Stampede (a $28 million attraction in Orlando, Florida) to discuss the project with a reporter.
• • "I really relate to her,'' Parton said in a once-over-slightly interview in an upstairs conference room at her Dixie Stampede dinner theater, an establishment operated by her family.
• • "We have very similar attitudes toward life and business. It turns out she wrote a lot of her own material and so do I. She also had a healthy attitude about sex and men, and so do I,'' Dolly hurriedly told news man Jim Abbott from the Orlando Sentinel.
• • Like Mae West, Tennessee native Dolly Parton [born 19 January 1946] wears many hats including author, actress, singer, and high earner. Unlike Mae, Dolly probably needs a brassiere constructed by the likes of Roebling to keep her exaggerated silicone curves afloat. Self-enhanced but self-deprecating, Dolly enjoys saying, "It costs a lot to look this cheap."
• • Willem de Kooning's famous line "I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity" could easily be Dolly's trademark. Ultimately, the TV producers felt she was too tawdry and low-class to portray the empress of sex.
• • Last weekend Dolly Parton's dinner theater, the Dixie Stampede, abruptly closed its Orlando branch after receiving a lucrative offer for the 13 acres of land it sits on. Over 200 employees found themselves out of work but it's quite a January birthday present for the multi-millionaire entertainer.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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