Another episide of the upcoming Dolly Parton anthology series, ‘These Old Bones,’ stars Kathleen Turner as an old fortune teller who meets her long-lost daughter (spoiler!).
This song has Dolly switching roles between the old crone and the young girl, giving the former a creaky voice that shows off her acting chops but doesn’t go down so easy in song form. It’ll be interesting to see what Turner does with the role.
Proving there is no idea that won’t eventually end up as NetFlix programming, premiering on the platform this November is Heartstrings, an anthology series based on the songs of Dolly Parton.
Each of the first season’s eight episodes will be introduced by Ms. Parton and follow the plot of one of her many country tunes. Dolly plays a role in the first episode, based on perhaps her most well-known and beloved hit, ‘Jolene.’
At the risk of turning this into a Whitney Houston theme week, I thought I’d give some props to the woman who wrote and originally performed the song we’ve all heard ad nauseum since Houston died.
Dolly Parton must be making a fortune these days from the royalties she earns on ‘I Will Always Love You.’ Talk about a gift that keeps on giving. The day Kevin Costner suggested Whitney Houston cover this track for the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, he lined Ms. Parton’s pockets for years to come.
Here’s another of those musical moments in a TV show or movie that uses song and performance for a big emotional impact. I’d love to dedicate an entire blog to scenes like this one but they’re very hard to come by on the Web because of those pesky copyright laws.
Along with my wife, I was a pretty loyal watcher of Gilmore Girls for most of its run. But when creator Amy Sherman-Palladino left the show toward the end of its run, I tuned out. The show was so much a product of her sensibility (she and/or her husband wrote almost every single episode, which is extremely rare in network TV) that it just felt like another show about the same characters. It didn’t help that our cable provider stopped carrying The CW.
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