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...crowds were beginning to gather at the Executive Inn Rivermont, near Owensboro, Ky. Dolly Parton, 37, had come to town. About an hour before showtime, a woman phoned Owensboro police to warn of possible danger from a man who "wants to harm her, a person who can't stand her." Parton's security consultant, Gavin DeBecker, 29, recommended that she cancel the concert and three others scheduled for last week. DeBecker believes he has a line on the man, a mental patient who has been arrested "a number of times." As for Parton, who carries a snub-nosed...
...years. "Then the company moved off and left us," he says. "For eleven years I sold cars until sales got bad." Now working for a construction company, he says, "People talk abou going back, but it's mostly memories talking, and those of hard times. How did Dolly Parton put it? 'No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of then, and no amount of money could pay me to go back and live through it again...
...will not try to change: "I think you can get too muscular. I'm not the jealous type, but I'd be jealous of a woman with drop-dead curves rather than of a woman with an athletic build. Somewhere there is a happy medium between Fonda and Dolly Parton...
...metronome; muscular aerobicians will resent being mistaken for football players; Jane Fonda will find herself another cause and let her deltoids go to flab. Throughout history, women have been alternately starved and stuffed, and no one can guarantee that next year's body heroine won't be Dolly Parton. But to imagine this is to ignore the strides the contemporary woman has taken in the past dozen years and the good sense she has shown in achieving her new status...
BORN. To Donna Summer, 33, sultry queen of disco, and Bruce Sudano, 33, songwriter (he co-wrote Summer's Bad Girls and Dolly Parton's Starting Over): their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...