Award Season Campaigning Intro for November 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Dolly Parton covers the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine, just revealed yesterday. It’s great to see her, always, but especially now since she’s had some health issues recently, and then her sister went rogue and scared everyone into thinking it was worse than it was. Not By Lainey • Nov 13, 2025 09:00 am
Tom Cruise Intro for June 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in theaters, Tom Cruise has gone to ground. Tom Cruise, despite being enormously famous, can completely disappear when he wants to. (Wither that erstwhile “romance” with Ana de Armas?) He is exhibit #1 when younger stars complain about being hounded by photographers— By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 09:24 am
Music Dolly Parton went outside Sticking with today’s “good vibes only” theme, Dolly Parton appeared at the opening night of her touring show “Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony”, which pairs Dolly’s music with local orchestras, last night in Nashville. It’s been just under three weeks since her husband of By Sarah • Mar 21, 2025 04:04 pm
Music Start your day with Dolly Dolly Parton co-hosted the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards last night with Garth Brooks, which means we get to start our day with a little dose of Dolly. It’s a busy time for the iconic singer, as she announced a new album earlier this week, Rockstar, which is By Sarah • May 12, 2023 11:35 am
Books Intro for March 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Academy of Country Music Awards happened last night in Las Vegas, co-hosted by the legend Dolly Parton who joked during her opening monologue that a disco ball fell on top of her. That was just the first of several outfit changes and appearances, including performances. Dolly did By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:05 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, PEOPLE Magazine has released its People of the Year covers. There are four of them, including the legend Dolly Parton. Dolly could be a person of the year every year and at 75 she’s as busy and as booked as ever – as PEOPLE says, she has her By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 09:17 am
Music Intro for October 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, The thing that broke me this morning was what broke Stephen Colbert: Dolly Parton’s singing. It’s the first clip I watched when I got up. Here it is if you haven’t yet seen it: .@DollyParton sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow” and I think somebody By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 08:51 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Dolly Parton and the work of Phone Sex But not at the same time. Duana and I are indeed talking about Dolly Parton on this episode of Show Your Work and we are talking about phone sex but we are not talking about Dolly Parton doing phone sex, relax. That said, I think she’d be good at By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 03:23 pm
Music Dolly Parton knows Black Lives Matter At 74 years old, Dolly Parton is still be one of the most progressive voices in country music. Covering Billboard’s Country Power Players issue, the music icon sits down (via Skype) for a brilliant profile about her media empire and legacy, and at one point the conversation turns to By Cody • Aug 14, 2020 12:23 pm
Music Undeniable Miley Miley Cyrus makes it difficult to dislike her. It’s annoying. I’m constantly annoyed by how likeable Miley can be because she is, as the kids say, a #problematicfave. But there are certain things about Miley I can’t deny, no matter how much I want to. Last night By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 01:49 pm
Jennifer Aniston It is impossible to dislike Dumplin’ Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) is a Dolly Parton-loving girl who struggles with body image, an emotionally remote mother, and the recent death of the aunt who raised her. She has one friend, Ellen (Odeya Rush), with whom she shares a Dolly Parton obsession—they often have “Parton parties” and quiz each By Sarah • Dec 12, 2018 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dolly & Jen on the carpet and tequila shots with Sandy Here are Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston, along with Danielle Macdonald, at the premiere of Dumplin’ last night. As we’ve seen, since they’re the marquee names, Dolly and Jen have been leading most of the promotion for Dumplin’ so far. I’m curious though, once people start seeing By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 11:07 am
BFFs Dolly & Jen in black leather Dolly Parton’s song from Dumplin’, "Girl in the Movies", was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song this morning. Dolly’s on her way. Her goal, as she’s made explicitly clear, has been to get nominations, in particular an Oscar nomination. The Globes aren’ By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 03:21 pm
Amazingness Dolly on the campaign trail As I wrote a few weeks ago, Dolly Parton, in her words, is “politickin’” for Dumplin’ which premieres on Netflix on Friday and I’m going to watch the f-ck out of it all weekend. We should see Dolly and Jennifer Aniston on the carpet soon and those pictures will By Lainey • Dec 03, 2018 12:14 pm
Music Dolly leads Team Dumplin’! She told us. Dolly Parton told us she wants an Oscar nomination and she told us she would be “politickin’” for one and here she is, on the cover of the Thanksgiving issue of PEOPLE Magazine talking about her marriage, about growing up poor, about not having children, and about By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jen and Dolly “politickin’” together? As covered in the previous post, Dolly Parton started her Oscar campaign yesterday for the Dumplin’ soundtrack. Last week, when I wrote about Dumplin’, there had yet to be a release date. We have one now – the movie will start streaming on Netflix December 7th and also have a limited By Lainey • Oct 23, 2018 12:45 pm
