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Denton writer compiles interviews that trace the career of Dolly Parton
DAVID TAFFET I Senior Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
n the Ladies Home Journal, Jim
Jerome described Dolly Parton
as Patsy Kline in Jessica Rabbit's
body What editor Randy L.
Schmidt learned, though, as he
compiled interviews with Parton
from the late 1960s through
today for his new book Dolly
on Dolly, was that Parton herself consid-
ered her public persona as something of a
character.
She was never offended by the "dumb
blonde" label because, as she said, "I'm not
dumb and I'm not blonde."
"She's so down to earth," Schmidt said of
the country superstar.
Schmidt found almost 100 interviews
from sources like The Tennessean, Nash-
ville's daily newspaper that interviewed
Parton early in her career, to Rolling Stone
and Playboy, which spent a couple of weeks
with her to write about the singer in depth.
A more recent interview by Chris Az-
zopardi first appeared in Dallas Voice.
Schmidt culled the interviews so that infor-
mation doesn't overlap and so that, taken
together, it traces Parton's career.
By the mid 1970s, Parton had done about
everything she could in country music and
began to cross over into pop. Porter Wag-
oner warned her she'd never be able to do
that, but she replaced her band, played in
places like New York and San Francisco
and began becoming a gay icon.
If there was any doubt about her appeal
to the LGBT community, the movie Nine to
Five sealed the deal. The story of women
who work for a large company and were
never be promoted because of their gender
subconsciously appealed to the gay com-
munity, many of whom had been passed
over for promotions or fired because of
who they were.
And if Nine to Five wasn't enough, Parton
followed that role up with a starring part in
Best Little Whorehouse in Fexas.
Over the years, Parton has changed the
way she talks about her long-term mar-
riage. Some have even thought she was les-
bian with a husband as a beard to placate
her country fans. She tells Playboy she was
reluctant to do that interview because of
how some of her fans would react.
The interviews Schmidt chose to use
barely overlap, so taken together they tell
Dolly's story in her own words. Some inter-
views and articles he found had one partic-
ular gem, so he excerpted a paragraph and
included them as a 'Dolly Diamond' after
a related full interview. A
longer one addresses the
Dolly lesbian rumors that
accused Parton of paying
off her husband Carl to
remain married and "keep
his mouth shut."
Schmidt, an elementary
music teacher in Denton,
said compiling the inter-
views and seeking per-
mission for their use took
about two years and fit in
nicely with his teaching
schedule. Previously he ed-
ited a similar book of inter-
views with Judy Garland.
As he's out promoting
the Dolly book, he said, he's
waiting for his next subject
to find him. ■
Randy Schmidt speaks and
signs copies of his book at 7
p.m. on Jidy 27 at Interabang
Books, 10720 Preston Road.
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