The Economist does Dollywood

JayFarrar · Nov 8, 2007

This is good, really good.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10098973

From the Lexington column that focuses on America...

Sophisticates sneer at Ms Parton's theme park. The Daily Express, a British paper owned by a man who also peddles pornography, calls it â€œtackyâ€. But the values it represents are as American as a 3lb-pound slice of apple pie.
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Most important, Dollywood offers a rags-to-riches tale with a simple happy ending. Ms Parton was born among the poorest whites in America. She had talent. She worked hard. She became fabulously rich and famous. The world's first cloned sheep was named after her (it was cloned from a mammary cell). Yet despite all the adulation, she is still married to the man she met outside a laundrette in Nashville 43 years ago, when she was 18. And her husband is such a down-to-earth fellow that he shuns the limelight entirely. If reporters arrive at the couple's front gate while he is in the garden and want to talk to him, he pretends to be the gardener. That may be too corny for Hollywood, but it resonates in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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