“I live by my gut, so to speak,” Dolly Parton writes in her new memoir, Star of the Show: My Life on Stage . “The God gut is what I call it. I just seem to know what I should and shouldn’t do because I pray about things like that.”

Her gut has usually been right. Parton wears many hats: singer, songwriter, philanthropist, entrepreneur, brilliant businesswoman, theme park owner, star of classic films like Steel Magnolias, 9 to 5, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and recent honorary Oscar winner .

A spiritual, earthy dreamer, who is also funny as hell and sharp as a tack, Parton has arguably crafted her personal brand more successfully than any other celebrity. In her first autobiography, 1994’s Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, she also reveals hers

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