Re: Dolly Parton to Jessica Simpson: No Hard Feelings

[USA1st]

edonline wrote:
> http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1567786,00.html
>
> Dolly Parton to Jessica Simpson: No Hard Feelings
> THURSDAY DECEMBER 07, 2006 05:55PM EST
>
> By Marla Lehner and KC Baker
>
> Dolly Parton has no hard feelings toward Jessica Simpson, who flubbed
> the lines to the country singer's song "9 to 5" during the Kennedy
> Center Honors on Sunday.
>
> "Jessica is so talented that I'm sure that someday they will be paying
> tribute to her and I would be honored to perform for her," Parton said
> in a statement Thursday. "But I'll probably be so nervous that I'll
> forget my wig!"
>
> On Sunday, Simpson was paying tribute to Parton by singing her famous
> song before a packed audience, which included President Bush and the
> First Lady, when she botched the lines and then fled the stage in
> tears.
>
> "Dolly you make me so nervous. I can't even sing the words right,"
> Simpson said at the time.
>
> Later, Simpson's rep, Cindi Berger, said the singer was "overcome with
> emotion" during her performance. "She wanted the song to be perfect
> and she was upset with herself when it wasn't," Berger told USA Today.
>
> Simpson re-taped her rendition of "9 to 5" for the televised version
> of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Dolly is a class act! I just love her!
>
> Also being celebrated at the event were Steven Spielberg, Smokey
> Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Zubin Mehta

[Deborah]

Yeah, that's what I thought, when I read this, too.

Deborah

[camille]

DITTO!

[CliffB]

And so much more talented than Bimb-icca. Nice of Dolly though, to lie
through her teeth for Jesse's sake.