Plus: A first look at ‘Overcompensating’ season 2.
It’s been two and a half months since Dolly Parton shuffled off this mortal coil—but the country legend lives on via her Imagination Library book charity, the COVID vaccines she helped fund, the musical bearing her name that opens on Broadway in December, and, of course, Dollywood, the down-home amusement park named for Parton that opened in 1986. Marisa Meltzer recently took a trip down south to observe the mood at Dollywood after the death of its patron saint, only to find that the guests there were mostly intent on enjoying their vacations. “I ask fellow parkgoers if they have come to pay respects. Every single one replies that their trip had been planned long before,” she writes. “Families in seasonal T-shirts seem shy and uninterested in chatting with me, a strangely inquisitive middle-aged woman who wants to ask them if they had heard the rumor that Dolly Parton was secretly covered in tattoos. (They haven’t.)”
Elsewhere, Rebecca Ford shares a first look at the second season of Overcompensating, Oprah Winfrey answers the Proust Questionnaire, and Mark Seal remembers “how Johnny Depp honored Hunter S. Thompson’s final wish with a ‘death cannon’ that stood ‘taller than the Statue of Liberty.’” What a sequence of nouns that is! More tomorrow.
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HILLARY BUSIS
FEATURES EDITOR
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At Dollywood, Parton was known as the dreamer-in-chief. Vanity Fair’s Marisa Meltzer visited after her death to celebrate the dreamer in all of us. Read more
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POLITICS
By Maxwell Adler
They helped engineer a historic blue wave, but now they’re facing calls to step aside. Read more
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HOLLYWOOD
By Rebecca Ford
“We’re creeping out of the closet,” says creator and star Benito Skinner of his Prime Video series about a closeted college student navigating coming out and coming into his own. Read more
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PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
By Oprah Winfrey
The Queen of All Media needs no introduction. But she could use a few extra minutes to read just one last page. Read more
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ART
By Nate Freeman
Trump has spent the last two years attacking Washington’s cultural hub with executive orders and legally dubious firings issued via fiat. But the Smithsonian gets its funding through Congress—what if Congress actually acted on that authority? Read more
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EXCERPT
By Mark Seal
In an exclusive excerpt from The Many Faces of Johnny Depp, the famed gonzo journalist’s longtime friend and collaborator looks back on their struggle to adapt The Rum Diary and Thompson’s unconventional send-off. Read more
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POLITICS
By Hillary Busis
Susie Wiles walks off the same MAGA glass cliff as Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Katie Zacharia. Whatever could these ex-Trump staffers all have in common? Read more
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