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""Well it ain't gonna be me!" shrieked Parton""
Dolly Parton is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
All decent people like Dolly Parton. Show me a person who doesn't like Dolly Parton and I'll show you a person who likes to eat puppies. Lily Tomlin is a great comic talent, a joy to watch. Fonda is a good actress, though she should stop embarrassing herself by appearing in movies with hacks like Jennifer Lopez.
The three women are terrific in "9 to 5" but you just don't have a great movie without Dabney Coleman, who made a career out of brilliant playing creeps.
Dolly for Empress (since she has already said she doesn't want to run for President)
I saw her in San Francisco, giving a FREE concert in Golden Gate Park, boy is she entertaining, plus she does look great.
Regarding plastic surgery, well if you are famous I understand it, you see yourself on TV and in pictures all the time, so it makes sense to tighten things up if you want to be able to look at yourself, plus I was really happy when Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood and I think Pacino got lifts, cause they were starting to look like bloodhounds. But it's all these regular people who go out and get it who are ridiculous, you don't look like a movie star now, you never will, so stop trying and be happy with yourself! From watching shows like Dr. 90210 and other makeover shows, I tend to think that the surgery made things worse, people start looking off, asymetrical, when all they really needed was a good exercise plan and better hair and makeup styling.
Is there any way we could lobby Dolly Parton to keep a blog? Because I would read it daily. As would so many others. The other 9 to 5 women are wonderful also (and it IS a great movie, which I may have to buy soon...), but really. Dolly's such a hoot. And she has something (semi)wise to say about everything.
Ah, the Jane Fonda workout videos. The only one I could seem to get the hang of was Klute.
Lets say it together: "hypocrite." Jane Fonda is a hypocrite. I have no respect for her, and I can't understand why anyone else does. And Traister omitted one: lets not forget that while Jane was peddling her exercise videos and representing her physique as a product thereof, she was in fact puking herself.