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...says, "lifted an anvil off my heart. It made other things possible." Like working his way up the emcee ladder from the Grammys to the Oscars. The Oscars were thrilling for the kid who once sat glued to the black-and-white set with the family, shrieking, "There's Loretta Young! Look, over there, Alan Ladd's getting out of that limo!" His mother Helen remembers Billy grasping his toothbrush like a mike, "thanking all the little people who made this possible." In the morning, she would put notes under the cereal bowl -- "Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird...
...that politicians like to call the heartland. (Appropriately, the cornfield on the set of Hee Haw was recently transformed into a mall.) Republicans have understood this ever since Richard Nixon became the first President to visit the Grand Ole Opry in 1974. George Bush campaigned with country music stars Loretta Lynn and Peggy Sue, and made a pilgrimage to Nashville last year for the Country Music Association Awards. In many ways, the voters Bush was after are those who make up the majority of TNN's audience: 32% have an income over $40,000, and 13% make more than...
...think it was when Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls" came out, and I liked it. Madonna and "Like a Virgin," then U2, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin... Satan's music, and I didn't care. I stopped yelling at movies where unmarried people would kiss; I even cheered when Loretta and Tony slept together in Moonstruck. What was happening...
...Loretta M. McLaughlin, associate editor of The Boston Globe editorial page, began the talk by describing her experience as one of the few women in journalism...
...draw: big-time country-music shows, enough to fill 24 theaters every afternoon and evening, with stars such as Mickey Gilley, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Mel Tillis and Reba McEntire, several of whom have moved to the area and own the theaters in which they perform. Nashville may still be the capital of country music, its recording and publishing hub, but Branson has become its Broadway. Says Mel Tillis (Heart Healer), who moved to Branson two years ago: "You go to Nashville, you see the stars' homes. You come to Branson, you see the stars...