Dolly Parton says she’s uninterested in having an ABBA-style AI hologram

Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Ricky Gervais, and others have shared their 75th birthday wishes for Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Check them out exclusively on NME below.The legendary musician first found fame with his debut album ‘Matthew And Son’ when he was just 18 in 1967, before releasing the likes of ‘First Cut Is The Deepest’, ‘Father And Son’, ‘Morning Has Broken’, ‘Peace Train’ and ‘Wild World’.

Although not a new concept, the idea of immortalizing a human through holograms, potentially AI-created, is becoming more relevant as it gets discussed by Hollywood stars.  Both country legend Dolly Parton and actor and media personality Whoopi Goldberg have recently noted their aversion to the permanency holograms allow, with Goldberg going so far as to make legal provisions against the technology in her will Fox News Digital spoke with an expert who said that while certain steps can be taken to protect your name and likeness while alive, things become a whole different ball game after death. "Unfortunately, in the age of AI, celebrities can never fully ensure that their name and likeness won’t be used as a hologram post-mortem without their permission," Abe Lichy, partner and chair of the intellectual property practice at McLaughlin & Stern, tells Fox News Digital.

Kourtney Kardashian has notes. It looks like the eldest of the Kardashian-Jenner siblings isn't ready to let the tension with sister Kim Kardashian over her Dolce & Gabbana collaboration go just yet. In ET's exclusive sneak peek clip from this week's episode of, Kourtney meets up with Kim and their sister, Khloe Kardashian, to once again rehash the seemingly squashed feud. «I thought it would be nice to talk once after our last chat a while back now,» Kourtney tells Kim. Kim looks confused, asking, «Like, you've been thinking about it? It's been a while.» Kourtney says that she wanted to let the drama «settle,» but that she is still focused on making sure the sisters are «caring about each other enough to be concerned about our feelings.»In her confessional interview, Kourtney says, «I do want to have a relationship with my sisters.

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Dolly Parton has no plans to stop working, apparently ever. In an interview with the "Greatest Hits Radio" show, Parton explained that she feels a responsibility to continue her career. "I always believe that if you've wanted your dreams to come true and you are lucky enough to have that happen, then you’ve got to be responsible because you gotta keep the dream alive," Parton said.

Dolly Parton is opening up about her eventual retirement.

Dolly Parton‘s not leaving the stage any time soon. In fact, when it comes to retirement, the 77-year-old country star would rather “drop dead” onstage instead of planning her last curtain call.

Dolly Parton is not ready to retire and she recently opened up that she doesn’t plan on ever doing it. In fact, Parton talked about how she would like to do and she hopes it happens while she’s performing.

Dolly Parton's not leaving the stage any time soon. In fact, when it comes to retirement, the 77-year-old country star would rather «drop dead» onstage instead of planning her last curtain call.The singer shared her feelings about retirement while on the show, telling host Ken Bruce that there's a responsibility that comes with realizing one's biggest dreams.«I always believe that if you've wanted your dreams to come true and you are lucky enough to have that happen, then you’ve got to be responsible because you gotta keep the dream alive,» she explained. «And every dream kind of spawns another dream.

Dolly Parton has expressed her reluctance to give up live shows — saying that she would rather “drop dead” onstage than retire.The 77-year-old country icon was speaking as part of a new interview on Wednesday (July 12), when she admitted that she has no intention of slowing down her music career anytime soon.“‘I would never retire!” the ‘Jolene’ singer stated, appearing on Ken Bruce’s Greatest Hits Radio. “I would hopefully drop dead in the middle of a song on stage someday – and hopefully one I’ve written.”“That’s how I hope to go,” she added.

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Oppenheimer and Peaky Blinders has put him off smoking – as well as accepting future roles that require it.The actor, who plays chain-smoking scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Oppenheimer, and heavy smoker gang leader Tommy Shelby in the BBC series Peaky Blinders, has spoken about his dislike of it in a new interview.Prop cigarettes and pipes do not contain tobacco nor nicotine but they do still emit harmful emit carcinogens and toxins [via Franciscan Health].Murphy told The Guardian that cigarettes and pipes were what killed his character Oppenheimer.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A lot of people who go back in country music, be it the fans or even some who work in the industry in Nashville, refuse to call the CMA Music Festival anything other than “Fan Fair,” the name the annual event had in the far more humble ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. That’s the era when it took place out amid the pungent aromas of Nashville’s fairgrounds, not in and around a downtown stadium. Rather than resist that nostalgia for a quainter era, the CMA indulged it this year by selling vintage-looking T-shirts at merch booths — which, by the way, Country Music Association CEO Sarah Trahern says sold quite well. The festival is definitely embracing its past by including that former moniker in the title of a new documentary, “CMA Fest: 50 Years of Fan Fair,” premiering on Hulu today.

according to the Independent. “I have to decide how much of that high-tech stuff I want to be involved [with] because I don’t want to leave my soul here on this earth.“I think with some of this stuff I’ll be grounded here forever… I’ll be around, we’ll find ways to keep me here.”The singer-songwriter who was promoting her forthcoming album “Rockstar” also had some fun with the question of artificial intelligence.

Dolly Parton is thinking seriously about what she’s leaving behind.

Dolly Parton is opening up about becoming an AI hologram after she dies and the country singer is seemingly not interested in that technology.

"Boy Meets World" almost had a different leading lady. During a recent appearance on the "Pod Meets World" podcast, Bonnie Morgan, known for her role as Samara in "The Ring," opened up to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle about her experience getting hired to play Topanga Lawrence on the show and how she felt when she was eventually let go. "I had three callbacks," she said.

Dolly Parton clearly works longer than "9 to 5," but she still can't get any "Satisfaction" from Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger. Parton has been slowing releasing information about "Rockstar," her upcoming rock album that's set to release in November, and she just revealed that although she tried her best to get Jagger to make an appearance, he declined.

Daily Mail.The “9 to 5” crooner revealed she wanted the Rolling Stones frontman to sing his 1965 tune “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”However, she explained that Jagger “wanted something new and different, which I don’t blame him for.”“We kept looking for the right song. He was doing an album in L.A., and I was doing stuff in Nashville, and I kept missing him, but he wanted to do it,” Parton said.The Grammy winner also described to the outlet how touring is beginning to take its toll on her.Parton added that she doesn’t “want to be far away from home” with concert touring.She admitted: “It’s always been taxing.

Dolly Parton fully embraces the rocker fantasy while attending a press conference for her upcoming album Rockstar at the Four Seasons Hotel in London, England on Thursday (June 29).