Dolly Parton has revealed that her childhood home provided plenty of songwriting inspiration. Her career has been idling in recent years but now she has a new album titled Hungry Again. Last year she decided to retreat to the Appalachian cabin where she was raised so she could ponder her future. She said she went into a writing frenzy and came up with 37 songs in three months. Parton, aged 52, joked the songs that didn't make it on to Hungry Again will be on follow-ups titled Second Helpings and Now I'm Full.
It's a beauty pageant with an information technology twist. Twelve contestants for Miss Internet Singapore will parade in business suits and answer Internet trivia questions by typing on laptops in the pageant finals on Saturday night.
For three weeks, anyone able to log on to the Miss Internet Singapore web site had the chance to view pictures of the finalists, listen to their voices, read about their hopes on their home pages, and vote for them by sending an e-mail or voice mail.
Signaporeans already date through the Internet, and use it for everything from paying taxes to ordering taxis.
What would late-night talk show hosts joke about if not for the White House sex scandal? A tally by the Centre for Media and Public Affairs in Washington showed that from January 1 to July 31, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Bill Maher told a total of 1,172 jokes about President Clinton and sex. Leno led the joke parade with 545 Clinton sex jokes with Letterman runner-up with 364. But Bob Mulligan, executive director of the centre, doesn't think it's funny. "These jokes have not uplifted an yone spirits or enhanced anyone's reputation," he said.
What would have been an unprecedented concert in Miami by Cuba-based music stars was disrupted by anti-Communist protests and a bomb threat. Guitarist and singer Compay Segundo, aged 90, who appeared on Ry Cooder's 1996 Grammy-award winning album, thrill ed an audience of several hundred at the MIDEM international music industry festival. But his performance was interrupted for 30 minutes by a bomb scare.
Emmy-winning actor EG Marshall, best known for his portrayal of a lawyer in the pioneering TV legal drama The Defenders has died at his home in Mt Kisko, New York, after a short illness. The stony-faced actor often played patrician, authoritarian figures and in his later years was much in demand as the narrator for a series of TV documentaries. One film role for which he is still fondly remembered is that of the stuffy fourth juror in Twelve Angry Men.
Austin Powers is about to get animated. Mike Myers is reported to be on board to provide the lead voice and share executive producer chores for a cartoon version of his hit movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Kendra Munger fears it is going to be a bit overwhelming playing Diana, Princess of Wales in the ofroadway musical The Queen of Hearts. "I was really devastated when she died," she said. "I sat glued to the TV for 12 hours." Munger, aged 23, said she sti ll cries sometimes when she works on her lines.
Former child actor Gary Coleman has pleaded not guilty to assault and battery charges filed after the Diff'rent Strokes star allegedly punched an autograph-seeking woman in the eye. The diminutive Coleman, aged 30, whose career declined after the hit 198 0s TV show and who now works as a mall security guard, was not in court. He entered his plea through his attorney.
Wondering if a semi-famous celebrity is still among us? To titillate the morbidly curious, a Pittsburgh woman is keeping tabs on who's cold - and who's just dead - in Hollywood on her web site, the Dead People Server.
"It's informative and amusing," said Mrs Laurie Mann, aged 41. "If you don't see someone regularly, suddenly they're out of sight, out of mind and you're like, Gee, whatever did happen to ...?"
The ambulance that took a mortally-wounded Lee Harvey Oswald away in front of millions of TV viewers in 1963 is up for auction.
The 1962 cream-coloured Ford will be among the cars for sale at the September 2-8 Kruse International Auburn '98 Auction in Auburn, Indiana.
Oswald was shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days after the assassination. The ambulance took Oswald to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
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