DOLLY PARTON // A heap of `Straight Talk' from a woman `born to raise hell'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 5, 1992| Author: Cindy Pearlman | Copyright information

Dolly Parton doesn't care much for small talk. At least not this afternoon. She prefers straight talk. Think of it as Dolly, straight up, no chaser, with a giggle. "Given my mouth," she says with an omnious shriek of laughter, "no one is safe."

Oh, sure, promises, promises. As it turns out, Dolly's mouth is as free and wild as the prairie in Locust Ridge, Tenn., where she grew up. Verbally, and just about every other way, Dolly whoops it up.

Straight up, the topic is the tab...

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