| ▲ | mattsolle 6 hours ago |
| If anyone hasn't listened to "Dolly Parton's America" (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america), I highly recommend it. Does a great job interviewing Dolly and discussing with her (and those two are around her) who she is, her life events, her thoughts on life. I knew people loved Dolly Parton before I listened but didn't really know why and the podcast helped me understand a bit more of it. It features a LOT of one-on-one time with Dolly in a way that I don't often find docu-series do. It's fantastic! |
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| ▲ | Tangurena2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| My favorite Dolly story that she sometimes tells in talk shows was when she heard about a Dolly Parton Look Alike contest and entered it. She came in second place. |
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| ▲ | socalgal2 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Except for the part where they try to inject their woke agenda into it by trying to suggest Jolene is a lesbian song. Nothing wrong with LGBTQIA+ but that part was super cringe as it was clear they were inserting their own adgenda rather than just interviewing Dolly Parton |
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| ▲ | jimt1234 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| One minor fact about Dolly I've always found fascinating is that she was married to the same dude for almost 60 years, until he passed away recently. I mean, being as famous as she was as an entertainer - that just seems like an extreme anomaly. |
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| ▲ | 13hours 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I guess the fact that I'm not mildy surprised that people can be married for 60 years says something about how different our cultures are? Even though we're on HN discussing so many other things we have in common. | | |
| ▲ | asveikau 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think money, fame, celebrity status, etc. often creates pressures on the relationship. Kind of like how it sometimes pushes people into drug addictions. That's a stereotype that we've all heard about since kids, but it wasn't until relatively recently that I thought about it seriously that it occurred to me that a touring celebrity musician's life can be stressful and the drugs can be (or start out as) a pressure valve release. I think that part of it clicked to me when I heard a musician being interviewed about it, I forget which. Maybe it was a Beatle talking about their early amphetamine days. | | |
| ▲ | duderific 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Re the drug addictions - another thing to note about touring musicians is that there's a lot of downtime. New cities every day, not much to do until your show in the evening. Pretty easy to slip into unhealthy habits. | |
| ▲ | jimt1234 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I had a friend in the mid-90s that was in a mildly successful band. They did a few national tours as opener for bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I met up with him once while he was out on tour. I was thinking he was living his best life, like he was gonna brag about the lifestyle. Just the opposite. He hated touring, said it was very stressful, and that he just wanted to eat a home-cooked meal and sleep in the same bed more than two nights in a row. And yes, he said industry folks were constantly pushing free drugs. |
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| ▲ | Erem 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Divorce is rampant among celebrities in the USA. Maybe not worldwide? | |
| ▲ | johnnyanmac 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's not unheard of. But I guess it's a mix of several small factors: 1. divorce rates have been rising for decades. 2. 60 years is a very long time, and that means Dolly would have had to marry around 18-20. Marrying that young these days for my generation very much is an anomaly, and people are putting off marriage more and more these days. 3. Celebrity culture in particular has a much more tumultuous relationship. In a number of cases, marriage may simply be another influential tool to manage fame and wealth rather than an act of love and caring. |
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| ▲ | kranke155 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Paul Newman I think. Same thing. He was also married to the same person for decades. | | |
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