A report alleging that CNN displayed a Dolly Parton impersonator during coverage of the singer’s death raises a difficult question for live television: what should a news organization do when an image...
Margaret Whitmore, known as Maggie, spent most of her seventy-two years organizing life around her children Jennifer, Michael, and Lisa. After her husband Richard died at fifty-nine, they promised she...
At one of Dolly Parton’s final public outings, the country star looked unmistakably like herself. She wore towering heels, a bright fringed outfit, and the polished smile fans expected as she appeared...
A bedroom illustration challenges viewers to locate four objects hidden among the couple, bedding, furniture, and floor. The missing items are a comb, a small gift box, a mirror, and a tube of lipstic...
When we brought our newborn daughter home, I expected my five-year-old son Max to race into the nursery. He had spent months choosing blankets, naming the stuffed rabbit beside the crib, and telling e...
According to an account shared by Stella Parton, Dolly Parton’s final weeks revealed the same instinct that had guided much of her public life: when facing her own suffering, she was still thinking ab...
Derek Martin, the British actor best remembered as Charlie Slater in EastEnders, reached television success by one of the least conventional routes imaginable. Long before he became a familiar face in...
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The atmosphere shifted before the crowd understood why. Conversations stopped, faces turned, and phones rose almost at once when Donald Trump appeared in public with an unfamiliar figure walking besid...
As the world mourned Dolly Parton, two deeply personal memories offered a glimpse of the relationships behind her public image. Billy Ray Cyrus remembered a final message filled with affection, while ...