Smart Blonde by Stephen Miller

Author:Stephen Miller [Miller, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85712-007-6
Publisher: Music Sales Corp.
Published: 2008-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Although much of Dolly’s time was taken up with her professional commitments she allowed herself the occasional fun day out. In 1981 she and three friends joined the outrageous Halloween costume parade of street people gathered on Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard. In the crowd were several male and female Dolly Parton impersonators but none recognised the real thing prancing among them. She disguised herself to look like a pregnant hillbilly – pillow in her stomach, teeth blacked out, sores and bruises and bites painted all over her face. She told an interviewer, “I’d go up to the others and gasp, ‘Are you really Dolly Parton?’ and they’d holler, ‘Oh, honey, of course! Who else?’ I thought to myself, ‘God if they only knew who I was and how ugly I can look.’”

For a while Dolly and her mother and sisters went on holiday each year. The idea was that one of them was responsible for coming up with a theme and location for the holiday which might last for several days and include a range of activities from long walks to sing-songs to girly activities like dressing up and putting on fancy make-up. In her book In The Shadow Of A Song Willadeene included a diary of events from one such holiday arranged by Avie Lee in the mountains: “After breakfast we went outside to a beautiful day with the sound of spring everywhere. Birds and frogs told us it was spring. I thought it was just a bit early but how can you contradict an impatient frog? And from somewhere across the hills we could hear a rooster crowing, and the hungry bawling of a new born calf. It was just cool enough for light jackets. Dolly had brought all of us a new one made in the ‘Coat Of Many Colors’ style. She had gotten them from fans … all of them were handmade and beautiful. A lady in Texas made the one I wore.” She concluded, “Our vacations are times set aside for love and sharing; times when the outside world doesn’t exist.”

Dolly has referred to these holidays in glowing terms and while most of the Parton sisters have refrained from comment Stella, without going into detail, rather shatters the idyllic image created by her sister. “It was always a fiasco … always hated them, only survived two or three of them and then I decided not to go any more.” When the author pointed out that Dolly always spoke warmly about these family holidays Stella is dismissive. “Oh she’s full of crap … yeah, anybody that can write that many songs can make up a lot of stuff … she’s got an imagination that won’t quit … I mean I have read that we went shopping and I’ve seen it in Good Housekeeping that we shopped in New York and she’s never taken me to New York shopping, ever, so I called her up and I said, ‘What the heck is this? We went shopping, where’s my stuff … I mean that’s all baloney.

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