Read Out's 1997 cover story with Dolly Parton

The following Dolly Parton interviewed originally appeared in the July 1997 issue of Out magazine. Dolly Parton is ready for dinner. All five-foot-one of her bodacious curves and Dynel blondness is perched on Frederick's of Hollywood-style mules as she moves through the lobby of the posh Pierre hotel overlooking New York's Central Park. Hers is a Southern manner both gracious and "oh my gracious."…