Dolly PartonThe legendary singer-songwriter and actress and philanthropist was exploited by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and the Sciences of the Governors’ Council to receive his humanitarian prize Jean Hersholt to the 16th governors of November 16, will not be able to attend the ceremony in Hollywood due to the challenges of health, The Hollywood Reporter learned.
Parton, 79, who lives in Tennessee, announced earlier this week that the same numbers were forced to postpone a series of six concerts which would have taken place in Las Vegas later this year, for which tickets sold in less than two hours. It was a difficult year for the favorite of fans, including the husband for almost 60 years, Carl Deandied in March.
The previous ones of the Governors Rewards The winners who could not attend the ceremony include John Calley,, Jean-Luc Godard,, James Earl Jones,, True pine,, Debbie Reynolds And, last year, just a few days after his death, Quincy Jones.
Even in his absence, Parton will surely be celebrated at the Governors Awards, alongside the three Honorary Oscar recipients this year: the actor-producer Tom Cruiseactress-producer-choreographer Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas.
One of the most popular country music stars of all time, she made her mark on films as an actress (the most memorable in the 1980s 9 to 5 and 1982 The best little whore in TexasFor which she received names from Golden Globe) and as a singer-songwriter (collecting the best original Oscar names for “nine to five” 9 to 5 and “Travellin ‘Thru” from 2005 Transamerica). But his greatest inheritance may be his philanthropy.
Indeed, the daughter of a man who has never learned to read spent millions of dollars to give more than 285 million pounds to children, aiming to inspire a love for life of reading. Everything is done through her Dollywood Foundation, which she created in 1988 in order to help educate the children of her original state of Tennessee, and the Imagination Library of Dolly Parton, which launched in 1995.30 years later, the organization of Parton sends millions of free books each month to the pre-soldiers in the 50 states, as well as in Canada, in Australia and Australia and in Australia and in Australia Ireland.
Beyond that, she was also a frank ally of the LGBTQ community and a pivotal supporter of medical research – as in 2 million dollars in gifts at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center – which helped finance the early critical stages of the development of the modern COVVI -19 vaccine which saved an incalculable number of lives during the pandemic.
