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...Dali Parton...
...convinced I was going to be a little performer." In need of cash, Sharon booked Twain in front of every open microphone in northern Ontario. If there were no talent shows or telethons, Sharon was not above hauling Twain out of bed in her pajamas to sing Dolly Parton covers before last call at a local...
Asked if she might find a way to integrate vulnerability and world domination, Twain thinks for a moment. "I've got dreams," she says. "I'd like to do a duet album with all of my favorite artists--Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, Karen Carpenter if she were alive, Etta James." Twain is laughing now. "These are impossibilities, but I'd love it. And I would want it to be originals. What would be really fantastic would be to write songs with all those people. That would be a dream album for me. One dream album...
...done? Composing a song entirely out of dialogue from Citizen Kane (see the Stripes' "The Union Forever," on their album "White Blood Cells," which is climbing the charts). Covering country songs in which the narrator is a woman? (The Stripes' best live number is "Jolene," made famous by Dolly Parton.) They do something new by playing with elements of '60s rock in a way nobody's played with them before. (Note: I'm the last person who should be defending the Stripes, who claim to be brother and sister but are a divorced couple. They're currently telling the press...
Most of you have heard his name. Some of you can even spell it. He’s a man short on talk (see: heavily accented) and long on action (see: brutally explosive). He’s the proud owner of a massive chest that might give Dolly Parton pause. He has saved the world countless times from aliens, cyborgs and even Satan himself. But saving his own career may be the one feat not even Arnold Schwarzenegger can accomplish...