The Oscars!

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Those celebs for the most part are stiff as a corpse when they go to these awards. Leave it to Miss Dolly to try to get them to move...well, clap anyways.

OH MY GOD! SHE WAS ROBBED! Who the heck voted for Hustle and Flow's crazy song about a pimp????



Doesn't she look Oscar worthy tonight!



Some interesting articles on "Good Golly Miss Dolly!"

Parton's Plea For Tolerance

By Peter Cooper, USA TODAY

NASHVILLE — Dolly Parton has no trouble relating to outsiders. "I've always been a weird, out-there freak myself," she says.

Growing up in the mountains of East Tennessee, she was used to not being accepted. "My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel."

Her ability to identify with outcasts helped her to an Oscar nomination for Travelin' Thru, a song she wrote for the movie Transamerica. The main character is a pre-operative transsexual (played by Felicity Huffman) traveling the country with his son.

"Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd," says Parton, 60. "But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you."

The ceremony March 5 won't be Parton's first Oscar experience; her 9 to 5 was nominated in 1980. But this time, she gets to perform.

She'll walk the red carpet in a Robert Behar-designed dress with Duncan Tucker, Transamerica's producer and director. (Of her husband of 40 years, Carl Dean, she says, "I can't even get him to go for a Big Mac, much less the Oscars.")

Tucker was instrumental in offering Parton direction for the song. "He wanted the song to be about redemption and about people's feelings," Parton says.

She struggled until one morning on her tour bus she had the idea for a spiritual theme and a gospel feel. She wrote: "God made me for a reason, and nothing is in vain/Redemption comes in many shapes with many kinds of pain." She finished in a day.

Parton is considering putting the song on a gospel album and doing a dance club version.

"Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats," she says. "Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy. One thing about this movie is that I think art can change minds. It's all right to be who you are."



PARTON THREATENED FOR HAVING GAY FANS

24/02/2006

Singer DOLLY PARTON has been bombarded with hate mail because of her popularity with the gay community.

The COAT OF MANY COLORS singer has a large gay male fan base, which has made her a target for hate-mongers.

She explains, "Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats."

The country music legend has received an Oscar nomination for writing the song TRAVELIN' THRU, from the movie TRANSAMERICA.

The film's main character is a pre-operative transsexual, played by DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star FELICITY HUFFMAN.

The 9 TO 5 singer hopes the movie and her song can foster understanding and tolerance between people from different walks of life.

Parton explains, "Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

"One thing about this movie is that I think art can change minds. It's all right to be who you are."

Meanwhile, the 60 year old revealed she has spent over £1 million on improving her cleavage. She said: "My cleavage isn't insured for £1million - that's how much it costs to keep them up and looking good.”

Dolly's Tune Owes A Lot To Transsexual

With Jo Piazza and Chris Rovar
December 14, 2005

Gold standard Dolly Parton told us she had insider knowledge when writing her Golden Globe-nominated 'Travelin' Thru' for 'Transamerica.'

Bosomy Dolly Parton was even more buoyant than usual yesterday as she floated on the news of her first Golden Globe nomination.
"I'm just so tickled," chirped the country goddess, whose tune "Travelin' Thru" received a nod for Best Original Song.

Dolly composed the ballad for "Transamerica," in which fellow Globe nominee Felicity Huffman plays a woman who comes by her breasts the hard way - through a sex-change operation.

Parton told us you don't have to know the song is about a transsexual to like it. Given its Christian imagery, she said, "country fans may think it's gospel.

"That's not particularly the kind of movie they'd go to see. But it's a beautiful movie, and they might be lured to it by the song.

"I've known a few transsexuals," said Parton, who's something of a gay icon. In fact, she thinks "Travelin' Thru" turned out as well as it did thanks to the guidance of a friend who used to be a woman. "I have firsthand knowledge of how complicated the whole process can be," she went on. "I knew this person before, during and after he was a man. You might call him 'A Boy Named Sue.' That's what his name used to be.

"He works for me," Dolly went on. "He typed up the lyrics when I was writing and rewriting it."