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An absolute legend. Dolly Parton never forgot where she came from… and never stopped being grateful for the people who helped her along the way. Even after she made it big, she still showed up with that same smile, same humor, and pure class. She wrote a song just...

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In 1980, a 22-year-old Michelle Pfeiffer walked onto The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson having never taken an acting class, never met anyone in the industry, and having found her agent through the Yellow Pages. She had been boxing groceries at Vons supermarket in Orange County. Then she got promoted to checker. "What am I doing here?" she asked herself. That question changed everything. It was her hairdresser who first planted the seed. He kept asking her why she wasn't pursuing acting. For a long time, she dismissed it. Fear of failure. What will people think? The usual voices that talk most of us out of the things we actually want. Then she stopped listening to them. "I said, 'What do you want to do?' And not what everybody else wants you to do. And acting was it." With no money, no contacts, and no roadmap, she did what any resourceful 22-year-old from Orange County would do. She opened the Yellow Pages and started calling agents. Her pitch to the first one she reached was almost absurdly direct: "This is what I want to do. I don't have any money to go through your school. I don't have any money to pay for pictures. I don't want to sign any contracts with you." She laughed recounting it to Carson, noting that somehow that call still worked. Within two years of that phone call, she was sitting across from Johnny Carson on national television, with two film credits to her name. She credited her naivety as a kind of protection. "I look back and I think it's been very fortunate because I was very naive and I could have been taken advantage of." The industry she walked into had a reputation for chewing up hopeful newcomers. She walked through it without knowing enough to be afraid of it. Her parents were worried. That was real. But the moment she showed them this was not a whim, that it was a genuine calling, the dynamic shifted completely. "I certainly had their support once they knew. I mean, this is really what I wanted to do. Once they knew that, I had their support 100%."

History Nerd

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For the longest time 30+ family and friends chipped in to a private company and we could always fly that way. I never really flew commercial too much, only a handful of times. I never liked it. I hate the crowds, I hate waiting for my bags. Some people can be always unruly. The worst for me is when I had to sit by someone who would always give the attendant a hard time, treating them like a personal assistant, barking orders at them and admonishing them for what they consider substandard service. This woman sitting across the aisle from me thought she was at an all inclusive buffet. She would say “excuse me miss” as a way of getting their attention and she always used a fake sugary sweet voice and was acting polite but I could tell it wasn’t authentic, it was a way to demean the workers. She made the poor attendant kept going back and forth and getting her refills even though she was serving somebody else. She would repeatedly ask for snacks and seconds when the meal was served. I have no idea why they complied but they did. Most of us were just sitting there watching and waiting for the attendant to snap, but she was professional the whole time. This was at a time where most people weren’t going to embarrass themselves making a scene because the people who treat them like this are used to the attention, it’s almost as if they are picking a fight intentionally. The rest of the flight was uneventful. This was a long flight to Asia for me, I think the attendant knew if she angered the woman, she would then become even more difficult so she just took it. I would have cut her off a long time before she started taking advantage.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

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This was the LAST footage of Dolly Parton before her passing today at age 80. Just watched Dolly’s video from the Night Flight Expedition opening at Dollywood. She couldn’t make the trip. Doctors clipped her wings. Dizzy. Dehydrated. Sitting there in those sparkly butterfly wings, still smiling, still talking to her people like family. She said she’d keep everybody in the loop. Promised to see us down the road. Then she pushed the new ride anyway. That was her last public message. Today we found out she kept her word the hard way. Dolly Parton was 80. Born in a one-room cabin in the Smokies, raised on hard work and harder times, and somehow turned it into one of the purest American success stories we’ve ever seen. No scandal machine. No political lectures. Just songs that still hit, a theme park that employs thousands, and a heart that never got too big for the mountains she came from. She spent the last stretch of her life dealing with real health problems after years of putting her own needs second so she could care for Carl. She told us straight. No filters. No PR spin. Just Dolly. In a world full of manufactured celebrities and empty noise, she stayed real till the end. That’s rare. That’s the kind of toughness and grace that doesn’t come from Hollywood or the coasts. It comes from people who know what it means to work, to love hard, and to keep showing up even when the body starts saying no. Rest easy, Dolly. You kept the loop open just like you promised. We’ll see you down the road. Godspeed.

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“Governor, would you please get out of the way so we can see her?” a woman shouted at me as I rode in a convertible with Dolly Parton at the opening of Dollywood in 1986. In 2014, several governors, senators, and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior were at Newfound Gap for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But the crowd had come to see one person: Dolly. Those of us in public life quickly learned, “If you want to be noticed, don’t ride in a convertible with Dolly Parton.” “I was born in Boogertown,” Dolly told me when we visited at the Dollywood opening. I told her that my walk across Tennessee in 1978 to become governor had created many unexpected conversations. One of those was in Sevierville after I shook hands with a missionary doctor, Robert F. Thomas, who had delivered Dolly in a one-room cabin on the Little Pigeon River. Later, Dolly wrote a song about Dr. Thomas. In her bedroom at Dollywood was a photograph of her Sevier County high school senior class. “Where are you in the picture?” I asked Dolly. “Where would you expect me to be?” she said and pointed to herself sitting in the middle of the front row. God gave Dolly a basket full of gifts in addition to her extraordinary songwriting and singing abilities. She was a shrewd businesswoman. And she was generous. She used her celebrity to provide books to millions of children, to help victims of fire in her home county, and to provide $1 million for research to speed up a COVID vaccine. Dolly loved everyone, and in today’s polarized world, she seemed to be the one person everybody loved. I think it was because she was bona fide. Dolly was always herself, the mountain girl who never stopped singing or sounding like where she grew up.

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