{"id":73146,"date":"2020-04-30T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=73146"},"modified":"2020-07-30T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T01:42:07","slug":"dolly-partons-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/dolly-partons-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton\u2019s \u2018Buffy The Vampire Slayer\u2019 Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dolly\u2019s Secret Buffy The Vampire Slayer Connection Revealed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> television series debuted in 1997 and ran through 2003<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Just when you thought you had country legend Dolly Parton figured out, news of a remarkable secret she\u2019s kept hidden for years has been revealed. It turns out the iconic artist was a secret producer on the trailblazing fantasy drama,\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer. <\/em>According to a recent\u00a0report in\u00a0Independent<\/em>, Parton had a behind-the-scenes role in developing the popular series which many never knew about. It might have been a hands-off sort of arrangement, but looking back, her influence can still be seen.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the connection: In 1986 Parton and her friend Sandy Gallin founded the company Sandollar Entertainment, and the firm has gone on to make scores of TV shows and films ever since. Some titles you might recognize include 1991\u2019s\u00a0Father of the Bride<\/em>\u00a0(co-starring\u00a0Brad Paisley\u2019s wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley), 1996\u2019s\u00a0Fly Away Hom<\/em>e, and Parton\u2019s recent Netflix series, Dolly Parton\u2019s Heartstrings<\/em>. But in 1992, it also produced the original\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>\u00a0movie, and although that film wasn\u2019t a box office smash, it showed enough promise to move over to TV, eventually evolving into the show beloved by so many today.<\/p>\n

\"\"Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, the\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>\u00a0television series debuted in 1997 and ran through 2003, leaving a sizable cult following and a spinoff series in its wake (Angel<\/em>). Parton was not listed as an official executive producer in the show\u2019s credits,\u00a0Independent<\/em>\u00a0reports, but her influence can be seen elsewhere. As a case in point, Buffy Summers\u2019 birthday on the show is January 19 \u2014 and that just so happens to be Parton\u2019s as well. What a coincidence!<\/p>\n

While the revelation is certainly tantalizing, it\u2019s also not so surprising when you think about it. Parton has become an icon, and Buffy<\/em> featured a teenage girl holding her own against a hostile world filled with monsters and villains. Sound familiar? Parton famously broke into the country industry in the 1960s, and had to repeatedly dispel the myth that she was just a \u201cdumb blonde\u201d \u2014 even leaving The Porter Wagoner Show<\/em>\u00a0when she was denied a bigger role on the popular program, which famously inspired her enduring hit,\u00a0\u201cI Will Always Love You.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, we all know her today as a cultural icon with millions of fans around the world \u2014 and a living legend even more beloved than the TV show she secretly helped create.<\/p>\n

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Dolly\u2019s Secret Buffy The Vampire Slayer Connection Revealed Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series debuted in 1997 and ran through 2003 Just when you thought you had country legend Dolly Parton figured out, news of a remarkable secret she\u2019s kept hidden for years has been revealed. It turns out the iconic artist was a secret producer on the trailblazing fantasy drama,\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer. According to a recent\u00a0report in\u00a0Independent, Parton had a behind-the-scenes role in developing the popular series which many never knew about. It might have been a hands-off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73472,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73146\/revisions\/73472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}