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To nine-year-old Zenaida, it wasn’t Dolly Parton’s storied country music career that made her so great. It’s the entertainment icon’s beloved Imagination Library book donation program that has had the biggest impact on the young girl’s life.”These are the first books I learned how to read,” Zenaida told AFP late Wednesday, flipping through Parton’s “Coat […]

Japan’s Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists, has died aged 97, her company said on Thursday, triggering tributes from around the world. The “polka dot queen” channelled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.”Throughout […]

The dotty pumpkins and kaleidoscope rooms of Yayoi Kusama, who has died aged 97, were as vibrant as the artist herself, but her exuberant work was the expression of a long battle with mental illness. Once a fixture of the 1960s pop and minimalist scenes in New York, Japan’s “polka dot queen” found huge commercial […]

Tim Curry, the English actor best known for his star turn as Dr Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic musical film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died at the age of 80, US media reported Wednesday. Curry, who had struggled with his health for more than a decade after a debilitating stroke, died at his […]

Dolly Parton’s classics like “Jolene” and “9 to 5” will live on long after her death, but will we get new music from the Queen of Country as well? Her own interviews indicate there is more to come. At least one tune is recorded and ready — if you can wait until 2045. In 2022, Parton […]

“Years and years ago, my sister and I made a pact that when Dolly died we’d come to Dollywood immediately,” Rebekah Donchatz said. “We just needed to be here.”Dollywood, the theme park founded by country music legend Dolly Parton, opened in Tennessee in 1986 and boasts roller coasters, seasonal festivals and old-time displays of rural […]

Flags across the United States flew at half-staff Wednesday as grieving fans paid tribute to the late country music star and beloved cultural icon Dolly Parton. A family source said a private funeral service for Parton is slated for this weekend in Nashville. All five living US presidents praised the entertainment giant who eschewed politics […]

At a Washington gay bar, Cameron Austin donned a country western outfit replete with cowboy boots, as he sat in the corner sipping a drink while Dolly Parton’s “When I’m Gone” blasted through the sound system.”I didn’t grow up listening to a lot of the gay icons that we typically think of, but she’s the […]

Americans of all stripes united to grieve the death of country music legend Dolly Parton, offering a rare moment of agreement as presidents of both parties joined entertainment and business giants in paying her tribute. The singer, who was 80, was long heralded as one of the few celebrities that everybody loved. President Donald Trump […]