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Tennessee Town Hopes Tourists Find Bean Museum a Gas
By David Moye - AOL News(June 30) -- Paris has the Louvre, New York has the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now Chestnut Hill, Tenn., has something that's even more of a gas than those world-class institutions: a museum dedicated to beans. Don't pooh-pooh the idea: Bush Brothers & Co., the nation's top-selling baked bean brand, has just opened a museum and visitors' center that, among other things, spills the beans on how its product is made. The Bush company is based in Knoxville, Tenn., but the museum was built 40 miles away at the site of the original general store opened in 1897 by company founder A.J. (Andrew ...
Campaign '08: The Dolly Parton Factor
By Mo Rocca - Politics DailyI was barely awake on Sunday morning when I received the news: Dolly Parton had rescued the opening night performance of the stage version of 9 to 5 from near certain disaster. I wasn't the least bit surprised.Here are the details: Dolly, who's adapted the hit 1980 film (one of my favorites) for the stage, was just one of dozens of A-listers in the audience for the show's world premiere at LA's Ahmanson Theater on Saturday night. The glitterati included the film's co-stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and the incomparable but underrated Dabney Coleman. (I followed Coleman's successful battle with ...
Huckabee & Dolly Parton's 32AA Bra
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyYes, you read this post's title correctly. There is a link. Or at least an alleged link. Apparently, according to The New Republic Mike Huckabee has a colorful habit of feuding with journalists. For example, once when a reporter filed a Freedom-of-Information-Request (FOIA) to obtain a copy of then-Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee's vacation schedule, Huckabee himself responded on official stationary, retorting:"If you have singled out the only Republican among constitutional officers for this special 'honor,' then you've really disguised your intentions about as effectively as trying to hide ...
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