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Dolly Parton tells stories about her days on The Porter Wagoner Show while paying tribute Saturday to the late, famed country music star at Dollywood.
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Waving from her seat on the over 100-year-old ferris wheel at Dollywood, Dolly Parton marks the park's seasonal opening in April 23, 1993.
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Dolly Parton, one of this years five honorees, acknowledges the performers and presenters at the end of their tribute to her, on THE 29TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, an entertainment special to be broadcast Tuesday, Dec. 26 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. She is joined by fellow honorees Steven Spielberg (left) and Zubin Mehta.
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Dolly Parton arrives at the Academy Awards, in this March 5, 2006 file photo taken in Los Angeles. Parton will kick off her first major European tour since the 1970s in Denmark in March, the organizer of the Danish event said Monday, Oct. 23, 2006.
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Country singer Dolly Parton arrives for the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors gala, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Sunday evening, Dec. 3, 2006. Parton,singer Smokey Robinson, film director Steven Spielberg, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta are being celebrated for their contributions to American culture.
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Country singer Dolly Parton does a TV interview as she arrives for the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors gala, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Sunday evening, Dec. 3, 2006. Singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, film director Steven Spielberg, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta are being celebrated for their contributions to American culture.
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Dolly Parton "How Blue" during taping of "CMT Giants" honoring Reba McEntire, Thursday night, Oct. 26, 2006, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The show is scheduled to air on Saturday, Nov. 18.
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Dolly Parton performs the Oscar nominated best original song "Travelin' Thru" from the film "Transamerica" at the 78th Academy Awards Sunday, March 5, 2006, in Los Angeles.
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Country singer and songwriter Dolly Parton, nominated for an Oscar for best original song "Travelin' Thru" from the film "Transamerica," kicks up her dress before the 78th Academy Awards Sunday, March 5, 2006, in Los Angeles. Parton will perform the song during the show.
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Dolly Parton waves at photographers before an event promoting the "Nine to Five: Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical Bigot Edition" DVD, Thursday, March 30, 2006, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Parton starred in "Nine to Five" with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
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Dolly Parton laughs while talking about her outfit Saturday that was specially made in the style of late country music star Porter Wagoner during a rose ceremony in his honor at Dollywood.
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Dolly Parton smiles after giving interviews on the red carpet before an event celebrating the launch of the "Nine to Five: Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical Bigot Edition" DVD, Thursday, March 30, 2006, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Parton starred in the film with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
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Dolly Parton dropped in during the performance of the Mexican Calpulli Dance Company Friday afternoon while she was at Dollywood for the opening of this year's new addition to.
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Dolly Parton climbs down from a 740 Articulated Dump Truck as she makes a "surprise" visit to Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center during a ground breaking for their new medical campus Monday. The project is estimated to cost $110 million dollars and house a 200,000 square foot hospital, the Sevier County branch of Thompson Cancer Survival Center, and an medical office building. The new medical campus will be named after Dolly Parton.
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Dolly Parton kicks off the 2007 season with an appearance at the new Festival of Nations Celebrate Ireland production on April 13, 2007 at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge.
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Dolly Parton in a 1978 publicity still for RCA records.
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Children from Gatlinburg Presbyterian Church listen on June 13, 1997 as Dolly Parton reads aloud to them as part of her Imagination Station program, an effort to provide children with one book to read each month.
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