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Or Cousin Minnie Pearl, as she was often called. She kind of reminds me of a country Carol Burnett.
Why post this?
Don't know exactly why, just kinda wound up there, and started to have vague memories of this woman from my childhood. She was somebody everyone at home sat down and watched when she was on tv. I remember that. Of course, if you missed it, you missed it. No Tivo, Netflix or YouTube then.
One video cannot sum up this Southern lady's legacy, but this one, later in her career, cracked me up, and I thought I'd share:
TexasTowelie
(112,160 posts)the price tags on her hats kind of resemble tea bags?
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(19,768 posts)The hat price tag was her running gag, though.
Does the video offend you or something?
TexasTowelie
(112,160 posts)I just thought it might have turned you on or something? Who knows, she may have given rise to the entire teabagger movement.
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(19,768 posts)Thought I might have been turned on by it from a tea bagger perspective?
Why do you say that?
Was Minnie Pearl a tea bagger?
Or is it something else that bothers you?
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(19,768 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,160 posts)Nothing against Minnie Pearl.
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(19,768 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)she was beloved by all associated with country music. She helped newcomers in any manner she could.
So what if it was an act. That's not exactly a new concept in country music or other areas.
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(19,768 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Having 'an act' is what performers do. Not one single artist you love stands on the stage as their real, actual self but always as a version of themselves or an entirely different persona. Bryan Cranston for example, does not make blue meth, does not have terminal cancer and amazingly is also not LBJ. It's all an act.
Minnie Pearl was a ground breaking comedian and perhaps the first celebrity to speak publically about her breast cancer. Her real name hangs on the door of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Oh, and is Rain Dog a Waits reference? Waits is the middle class son of two Southern California school teachers, now a Wine Country dandy millionaire. His 'act' involves him wearing beat up clothing and an old hat and not shaving and singing about things he's read about in books, but which he affects as reflections of his own life.
It's called 'being an artist'.
Orrex
(63,208 posts)I have it on good authority that Cranston did, in fact, investigate a government cover-up of a huge rampaging radioactive lizard monster.
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Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Ms Burnett would perhaps point out to you that her own children were born into great wealth and privilege but that their own talents and accomplishments were still their own. She's also point out that actors act. It's not a crime, it's the job.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)It's incredible that you have entirely missed the point twice now.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)Nashville when it first started. Nashville was considered the "Athens of the South" and locals thought country music and performers were beneath the reputation of the city. lolz. Now that it's considered NashVegas they may have had a point
Sarah Cannon/Minnie Pearl used her family money and what she earned to start the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centennial Hospital and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Thought I'd throw in a little more background. Sounds like you've lived in Nashville as well.
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