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...life is good. It was fun to watch you and [fiance Canadian jazz singer] Diana Krall perform at Willie Nelson's birthday concert. Will you collaborate in the future...
...actions and opportunities. Joe Millionaire returns with a secret new twist this October, but the water-cooler show of the fall may be Fox's hilarious The Simple Life (premiere date to be announced), which takes Paris Hilton (scioness of the Hilton hotel family) and Nicole Richie (daughter of singer Lionel) and plants them for a month on a farm in Arkansas. It's Green Acres verite, proving that any high-concept '60s sitcom not involving a genie is a reality show in the making. The two blonds are clearly no strangers to privation, having about 0.01% body fat apiece...
DIED. SHEB WOOLEY, 82, actor and comedic singer-songwriter whose 1958 novelty hit, The Purple People Eater, about an alienlike creature, tapped into America's fascination with outer space and sold 3 million copies; of leukemia; in Nashville, Tenn. His string of wry country songs included the theme for TV's Hee Haw, but he had an equally successful career as a TV and movie actor--notably playing outlaw Ben Miller, who menaces Gary Cooper in High Noon, and a trail scout in the 1959-66 TV series Rawhide, which helped launch Clint Eastwood's career...
...establishment--in spite of Gilley's objections. The rest is movie history. Gilley burst onto the national stage with Urban Cowboy, a love story about an urban cowpoke and the girl who rides a mechanical bull better than he does. Set in Gilley's, the film featured the singer on the sound track and in the movie alongside stars John Travolta and Debra Winger...
Star from the Bar Perseverance transformed country singer Mickey Gilley from small-time musician to big-time crowd pleaser...