Wait… what? First Lucille Ball and Star Trek and now this?
Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the unexpected crossover of cultural icons has left fans reeling.
While Parton was not herself credited as a producer on the long-running fantasy series, a company she co-created and owned was responsible for it coming to television.
Sandollar Entertainment, which is listed on the end credits of every episode of the show, was created by Parton and her friend and former business partner Sandy Gallin in 1986. It produced a number of films, including Father of the Bride (1991) and Fly Away Home (1996), as well as several Parton projects – most recently her Netflix anthology series Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings.
Though it sounds like she had no direct involvement in the show, it’s still kind of a cool association.
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Just in time for Halloween, a new Hellmouth opens near Salem
Tewksbury, Massachusetts is about 15 miles south of Salem, New Hampshire and 25 miles west of Salem, Massachusetts. It’s also 25 miles north of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Eliza Dushku was born and raised, and 25 miles northwest of South Boston, where famed vampire slayer Faith Lehane (Dushku’s character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) was born and […]
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‘Hush’ is the best ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ episode
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was wonderful. Far and away my favorite episode, however, was Hush. Overnight, skeletal ghouls with metal grins and MIB style steal the voices of Sunnydale’s townspeople. How the Scooby gang handles some of the evilest characters the series has seen, during a communication breakdown, is wonderful. Nowadays public schools in California […]
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Stranger Things gets badass Buffy-style intro credits
Nerdist found this wonderful fan-edit mashing up scenes from Stranger Things in a style of the opening credits from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Access 200+ lectures from Malcom Gladwell, Chris Hadfield, Elon Musk, and more
If you wanted to understand physics, you’d probably want to talk to Albert Einstein. If you were trying to unlock the art of filmmaking, you might want to chat with Martin Scorsese. And if you were interested in the inner workings of basketball, you’d enjoy a sit down with Michael Jordan. If you’re trying to […]
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Tribute will help you create a heartfelt video montage and it won’t take you hours to do it
It seemed like such a great idea at the time. You wanted to put together a video for a loved one, including all their family and friends singing their praises, making their life look as epic as a Hollywood production. Oh, it was a Hollywood production, all right. Contributors showed up late and sent weird […]
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Learn cybersecurity essentials on your own time at home with these classes
Fear is ripe soil for the unscrupulous. With so much uncertainty and concern over our health and the broader world economy, cybercriminals have been playing on that fear to steal a few extra dollars out of the most scared and vulnerable. The U.S. Secret Service warned that phishing attacks were up significantly and scams over […]