very truthful way and darling my life and other unfinished business here she is one more time Dolly Parton yeah did you read my book yeah I read some parts of it yeah yeah what's the juicy parts oh did you I figured you would there's a little bit of juice in each chapter though my whole life has been pretty juicy I've tried to be as honest and as fair as I could without hanging myself or somebody else that we're really born in a one-room cabin well I was born in a

one-room cabin my dad was a sharecropper and we I was born on the banks of the Little Pigeon River and so we moved later to a three-room house which is yeah three rooms but you still had twelve brothers and sisters yeah yeah well it was close quarters we slept three and four in a bed and we had mom and daddy always had a private bedroom and then we had the kitchen then we had this big room where we had beds all over the place mostly just beds where we kind

of piled up and slept together and peed on one another my favorite parts of the book are about the early days with your family and the fights you'd have as kids and how if you had if you had a desire you always made everybody sing I love that's true I was always singing music was a gift in our family most of my people did sing in church my mother's people my grandpa is a Pentecostal preacher so I grew up in the church but I wanted to take my music

a little further and I did have one brother that you're speaking of my brother Denver we fought all the time we were very close in age and he was mean as a striped snake so I have many fun stories about him but in this book I tried to cover everything people want to know and talk about what you I saw you saying while I was in the dressing room talking about surgeries talk about plastic surgery talk about what you were writing the book did you stop and say

you know I want to tell everybody this well everybody wants to know I got so much money for writing this book I thought at least I'd be decent of me to tell what people want to hear because I figure people really pay attention to what celebrities do and if you have had surgery I think it's important that you do find the right surgeons that you don't go out and look in the yellow pages for a plastic surgeon and get ruined ruined and maimed yeah so I've

had a little nips and tucks here and there but darling you know you are you were you were endowed at an early age yeah why would you need any more surgery well I needed to lift it off the floor and after you lost all that weight I said well aren't you embarrassed to tell that I said no it's less embarrassing for me to say that I had plastic surgery than for me to be tripping over them all the time but after I lost the weight I just wanted to kind

of get everything kind of tightened up a little bit and I said whatever you got to do to make them stand at attention so I don't have to wear a bronc I don't want to do so do you mind if I salute now there's a very funny story in the book about how you actually put them on a plate one time for your manager well that was yeah that's true honey you wrote about it oh that's fine I don't care I just know that you bring it up and she don't know me but now this

was what my manager who's precious he's gay I love him dearly but I knew it wouldn't be something that was going to be tearing him up of and just make him laugh so we were on vacation was this when I was sick and I was fat and he was trying to make me laugh and so he was doing all these bizarre things we were sitting over in a corner in this tiny little restaurant off on this island where he'd taken me to mend myself after this ordeal I had been through so he'd

got up and he'd been singing at different tables people thought he was entertainment they were giving him money and he was embarrassing me to death you know by walking around doing this so I thought I would get him so I had on this little moo moo type thing that's kind of laced down I just I was just even I'm short so when I sit at a table it's just a perfect platter for them so I just kind of just laid him out nice you know it's like I still had the clothes on it

took him a minute to realize that he just goes it scared him to death I don't think he'd ever seen any but anyway I tell all kinds of personal things and fun things not to be tacky but you have your limits too miss you didn't tell all well you're only paying $25 Tell about the different movies that you've made, and the different co-stars you had, and who's a good kisser, and who you had a little, you tell a very poignant story about Sylvester Stallone, about the homeless man, and that was interesting.

Yeah, this was the time when we were doing Rhinestone, which first of all, right up front, I love Sly. I think he's so funny, so intelligent. So bright. Love him to death. But this was new, and he's born and raised here, and so this was at a time we were shooting Rhinestone, and we were out on the streets, very cold, cold night here. Here in New York City. In New York City, and there were rats bigger than possums back home, you know, just running around the dumpster, and there was this old homeless man there, and I had on this big wool shawl, and I just, it was mine, and it wasn't my shawl, so I went over and I put it over the man.

I didn't know anybody was looking, and Stallone, he felt, why are you doing that? Anyway, he said something to the effect, you know, don't put that good shawl on that guy. So anyway, I just cussed him out. I said, you ungrateful S.O.B., you know, that's like, this could have been you, except by the grace of God and all that. Didn't really, he realized what he had said, and so that night, he had given the man some money, and went out and bought him a coat and some blankets and stuff, so it turned out good.

But anyhow, I talk about those kinds of things, because I think it's important that I can... It's interesting, too. It's interesting, but he's a wonderful guy. What I found interesting was, like Kathy said, who the best kisser is. Oh, James Woods. Well, James Woods. Oh, he's got those lips. He's a kisser, too. I wouldn't touch that, but he's got these big old fat lips, you know, and they're just as soft as cotton.

Oh, and he knows how to use them. It's like, you know, people say, well, ain't you embarrassed? And usually I am. In movies, when you have to do love scenes, you're very clumsy. It's very awkward. You have to be, turn your head right for the lighting, and you've got to think about everything, you know, but the kiss. Well, I thought about nothing but the kiss. Every time he would kiss me, I was like, oh, my Lord.

This is so good. It's like being a teenager, like your first kiss or something. I know I've made a big deal out of that, but I just can't compel you. You do, though. Every time I think about it, I do. But he was nice. I really enjoyed all of them. First movie was 9 to 5, wasn't it? Yeah, that was an enormous hit. Had a lot of... But I love what you said. You're a director. He was saying, you know, you can't act, right?

Oh, this was in Steel Magnolias. That was Herb Ross. Yeah, he said, you can't act. I said, I'm not. This is Dolly as a little schoolgirl. Yeah, that's one of my favorite school pictures. I'd roll my hair in little pin curls. See that one hanging up there like a little horn? Now we're growing up. We'll reach the year 1964, and Dolly is a high school senior. Any time now. Oh, there I go, and there's my rhinestone comb.

Now, I had worked really hard on those spit curls. And that was that hair. That was before wigs, too, but that hair was just like a helmet. Now, Dolly, did those schoolboys chase you all around the farm? No, I chased them. Because you are a very nice-looking young lady. Oh, thank you. Now you're recording with your two uncles, huh? No, that's Fred Foster. This man holding the microphone is the man that owned Monument Records.

That was my first big label, first big break, and that's my Uncle Bill. He was a singer, too? My Uncle Bill was kind of my early manager. He played guitar. We wrote songs together, and he was very beneficial in my career and in my life. Now, did all the kids in the family sing, or was it just you? No, we all could sing, and we all played some sort of musical instrument. But most of them just sang in church.

A lot of them were shyer than me at the time, and I just kind of got out. Well, I remember that one story in the book. You're 13 years old, and you're waiting outside a restaurant, was it, for Johnny Cash. Yes. You wanted to get on, what was it, Grand Ole Opry, right? Yeah. And, you know, Johnny Cash was a giant, still is. And so sexy at that time. Yeah. So pretty. The door opened, and out came Johnny Cash, dressed in black.

Walter, you were sitting in the car. You were 13 years old. I know. I got out, and I was just standing, looking at him with my mouth hanging open. I says, first time I knew what sex appeal was. You know, I was a young girl. I'd never known what charisma and sex appeal. I'd never had anybody affect me like that. And he said, hello, I'm Johnny Cash. And I couldn't say anything. And it was the only time in your life.

I know. It was like I was just over. But then you told him you wanted to be in Grand Ole Opry. Yeah. And then I finally came to my senses, and I said, my daddy's listening on the radio back home. We came to Nashville, and they're expecting to hear me on the Grand Ole Opry. You've got to help me get on. So he did. And he introduced me that night on the Opry, and Jimmy C. Newman gave me his spot. Usually the stars had two spots.

I know. So anyway, I wasn't even supposed to be allowed on the Grand Ole Opry. I wasn't union or anything, and I was a child. But he seemed to know. You know how God plants things in people, and that's how I believe. Me too. So it was meant to be. You know, remember that movie they made, Sissy Spacek? Call My New Daughter. Call My New Daughter. Mm-hmm. I mean, there's a movie here. That's Lorraine Lentz's story.

You know that. Oh, I hope so. I hope to do my life story as a musical, a Broadway musical, and maybe be in it too. But I imagine they will be running after me to do a movie of parts of this. When are you going to find time, darling? Well, I won't have to be in it myself. I just got to find a little girl, you know, that looks like me and enjoy it. Get her some boobs. Maybe it's... I'll have her call that doctor.

I'll talk about it. I'm joking. I don't get on my case. I'm not suggesting that. Maybe it's either a face doctor or a body doctor. I love it. Continuing with the pictures. Here's the wedding picture, 1966. There's Carl and you. Oh, look at that. He was so skinny. I think he weighed about 140 pounds, and he's about 6'2", 6'3". Now, was Carl a singer? No, Lord, no. You met him your very first day there, didn't you?

I met him first day I got to Nashville, 1964. There he looks like Rock Hudson. Yeah. Looks like he's got on a toupee, but that's his hair. He's got the boobies. I told him, I said, well, listen. It's not up for discussion. I'm writing my book, and I'm going to write about you, and I'm going to use some pictures so you can help me pick them out. You know, but Carl's kind of a mystery man, isn't he? Kind of an enigma.

And he still is, and he prefers it. There's my mom and dad. Now, that's a picture... That was a few years back, but that's the closest I had to an up-to-date picture, but they were all dressed up then. But anyhow, I'm proud of them. They're wonderful people. So Carl has no objections? He doesn't object? No. He doesn't object? No. He doesn't object? No. He doesn't object? No. to an up-to-date picture, but they were all dressed up then.

But anyhow, I'm proud of them. They're wonderful people. So Carl has no objections? He just stays out there and in Tennessee? He likes it. He's very much a homebody. He plans his vacations every year, and he goes where he wants to go, but he never flies. He always drives everywhere. He likes being at home. He don't mind that I do what I do. That's been worked out well for us, and I always say that Carl's the only person I can

live with all the time, but that's only because I don't have to. But he's a wonderful friend, he's a wonderful guy, he's funny, and I write a lot about him. People have never heard about Carl and our relationship, so I think people are real interested in that. The time you put on the tuxedo, because he wanted to support you, and you were getting an award or something, and he came back and he said, go ahead, but I'm not ever coming

to any more of these Wingdons. And he never did. He's never been to another thing. When he comes to my shows, he buys a ticket at the door. I usually don't even know he's there. When he goes to Dollywood, he's got a Dollywood pass, but he buys a ticket. He'd rather not be bothered. He can't see it if people, if he shows his pass, and they know Carl's on the grounds. He just doesn't like it. He's an independent man.

And I like him just the way he is. Well, don't you respect that very much? I do. And that's just how he is. He don't do it to make a point. He just does it because he don't like to be bothered. Carl's like me. Well, he likes you very much, by the way. He gets a big kick out of watching the two of you. He's watching you right now. The new CD is out. Are these songs that you wrote some of? Yeah, these are called...

You produced, I know. This is Heart Songs, the title of the album. It's on my new label called Blue Eye. It's Columbia Blue Eye Records. Steve Buckingham, who's my partner in the label, and also we produce things together. And so this is songs that we did live from Dollywood when I was doing the opening. You know, the money goes to the foundation. But this is songs that I grew up with, songs my mama taught me, songs of the old world,

English, Irish, Welch, all the music that I was influenced by. You have a little guitar right next to you there. Just a little bit of one of the songs your mama taught you. Code of Many Colors. I can't do Code, but you know, we have Code of Many Colors. I have a little kid's one now that I was going to give to Cody. He loves it. Somebody sent me a copy the other day, and I'd love you to sign it. Good. They played a little bit of it when it was coming out of a commercial.

So we've done that one. This is the only one I'm tuned up to do. And my nails were so long. So what's the story of this one? This is called Tennessee Mountain Home. This is a song I wrote years ago, and it just kind of talks about the way it is. So you tell me when to quit, all right? Because I never know when to quit anything. Sitting on the front porch on a summer afternoon In a straight back chair on two legs

Leaning against the wall As I watch the kids playing with their jumbos on a string And chase the glowing fireflies when evening shadows fall In my Tennessee Mountain Home Life is peaceful as a baby's sigh In my Tennessee Mountain Home Crickets are singing in the fields nearby Morphs and honeysucklevines cling to the fence along the lane Their fragrance makes the summer wind so sweet And on a distant hilltop an eagle spreads its wings

While a songbird on a fence post sings a melody That was in my Tennessee Mountain Home Where life is as peaceful as a baby's sigh I'm going to have to get higher here. In my Tennessee Mountain Home Thank you.