News from Dollymania
Dolly Takes One of Three CMA Awards
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The 40th Annual CMA Awards, Country Music's Biggest Night, was hosted for the third time by Arista Nashville super duo Brooks & Dunn and broadcast live from the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Monday, Nov. 6. Dolly was nominated three times with Brad Paisley for their duet on When I Get Where I'm Going for Single of the Year, Musical Event of the Year and Music Video of the Year. They won for Musical Event of the Year.
[Source: Country Music's Biggest Night]
Dolly Wins Two out of Three ACM Awards
The 41st Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music's Biggest Party of the YearŽ, was broadcast live Tuesday, May 23, 2006, from MGM Grand (Las Vegas) on CBS Television network! Dolly was nominated with Brad Paisley for their duet on When I Get Where I'm Going for Song of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year and Video of the Year. They won for the last two, losing only for Song of the Year to Brooks & Dunn's Believe.
[Source: Academy of Country Music]
Dolly Does "Vintage Tour" Last Fall
Dolly is touring for the second year in a row, playing numerous US and Canadian cities, including two concerts at Dollywood in late September.
[Source: Dollymania]
Dolly Nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award
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February 13, 2005 - Dolly was nominated for a Grammy with Norah Jones for Country Collaboration with Vocals
for "Creepin' In." The winner was Loretta Lynn and Jack White for "Portland Oregon." Also nominated in this category
were Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait for "Hey Good Lookin',"
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Toby Keith for "Pancho and Lefty," and
Shania Twain with Alison Krauss and Union Station for "Coat of Many Colors" (for which Dolly added background
harmonies). The 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards aired February 13, 2005, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and were
broadcast live on CBS-TV.
[Source: Grammy.com]
June Carter Cash wins Grammy Award
February 9, 2004 - June Carter Cash won the Grammy for Female Country Vocal Performance in the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, it was announced last night. Dolly had been nominated for I'm Gone, her 41st career nomination. She has won seven. Also nominated for Female Country Vocal Performance were Patty Loveless (On Your Way Home), Martina McBride (This One's for the Girls) and Shania Twain (Forever and for Always).
[Source: Grammy.com]
Dolly's Mother Avie Parton Dies
Dec 5, 2003 - SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Avie Parton, mother of country music singer, songwriter and actress Dolly Parton, died today after a long illness. She was 80. Avie Parton was responsible for stitching the patchwork rag coat for young Dolly that the singer later recounted in the song, Coat of Many Colors. The song helped propel Dolly Parton to stardom and came to symbolize her climb from rags to riches. Mrs Parton also was the witness at Dolly's secret marriage to Carl Dean in 1966 in Ringgold, Ga.
Dolly Parton Is New Tennessee Ambassador
September 23, 2002 - Dolly Parton has been named Tennessee's ambassador for film and music by Gov. Don Sundquist. The country singer-actress, who will promote shooting movies and producing soundtracks in the state, will be the centerpiece of an advertising campaign. "Dolly exemplifies the total spectrum of Tennessee's extraordinary talent," Sundquist said Friday. "Her involvement in promoting Tennessee's film and music industries will be a tremendous asset to our economic development efforts." Dolly called the state "a one-stop location for filmmaking, film scores and soundtracks."
Dolly Film News
Dolly has several film and TV projects in various stages of production:
- ABC-TV has cancelled its project about the life of screen vamp Mae West as a vehicle for Dolly Parton.
[Source: Knoxville News]
- Dolly is driving a Solid Gold
Cadillac. The country diva-actress has signed to star in and executive produce
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a remake of the 1956 comedy for TNT and Columbia TriStar TV. The original film starred
Judy Holliday as a stockholder who brings a large corporation to its knees when
she exposes the corruption among the board of directors. No word on when Parton's version
airs.
[Source: E!Online]
- Trouble in Jerusalem, a Lifetime-TV project, is a romantic
comedy about a Southern Christian woman and a New York Jew. The film is being
produced by Dolly's Southern Light production company.
- Heaven's To Betsy, the TV sitcom Dolly has been trying to
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develop the past eight years will instead lend its title to a made-for-TV musical
for CBS-TV. The script by Syrie James is about an unlikely R&B trio called "Milk
and Honey" (two black women and Dolly) who take their act on the road. One
of the band members [Dolly, of course] discovers that she has psychic
abilities and convinces her bandmates to use their musical gifts to help others.
Filming is slated to begin sometime in 2000. Dolly is composing
the music for the film, and she hopes to get someone like Gladys Knight
and Patti Labelle to perform the two African-American singer roles. Filming is
set to start this summer, to air on CBS-TV during November "sweeps." Development
is by Storyline Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Television, with Dolly
co-executive producing with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Pat Saphier is the
executive in charge of production for CBS-TV.
- Dolly has purchased the movie rights to The Jew Store, Stella Suberman's family memoir about growing up Jewish in small-town Tennessee during the first half of the 20th century. A story about a battle against discrimination, The Jew Store concerns a family who moved in the 1920s from the Bronx to tiny Concordia, Tenn. There they ran Bronson's Low Priced Store, which sold dry goods. It was known in the town as "the Jew store."Along with producing the pic with Southern Lights VP Helena Hacker Rosenberg, Dolly also will play a supporting role in the film.
MCA Leaves Dolly Without a Label
Sep 14, 1999 - "When you're with a major record label, they call gospel or bluegrass records 'specialty albums' and you never know if they're going to sell or not. But I don't have a record label now — and I haven't even pursued one. So I'm just going to do specialty albums now." [Source: Country Weekly, September 14, 1999]
Jan 26, 1999 - MCA has shut down its Decca Records division, leaving
Dolly without a record label or a recording contract.
Dolly Disbands Ambassador Fan Club
Jan 1997 - Dolly Parton said she no longer wants a fan club. She announced
the end of the Dollywood Ambassador Fan Club. "It has always bothered me to profit
from your devotion," she told members in a New Year's Day letter. "Many of you are
donating your hard-earned money because you care for me. . . not because you
believed in the programs of my foundation."
Complaints from a few members really upset Dolly, to the point where she
finally got tired of it. She sent everyone back their $20 annual membership
dues and asked everyone to support the Dollywood Foundation as a charity "because
you believe in it." The membership dues had been used to fund Dollywood Foundation
charity projects.
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