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The entertainment world lost two truly singular stars last week. Dolly Parton and Tim Curry both died last week on August 25 at the age of 80, leaving behind careers that stretched across decades, genres, and generations. They were both beloved  At first glance, Parton and Curry may seem like very different performers. One became the rhinestone-covered queen of country music, while the other built a career playing some of film and theater’s strangest, funniest, and most unforgettable characters. But both shared something that made them impossible to imitate: they understood the power of being completely, unapologetically themselves! Few entertainers have ever been as universally beloved as Dolly Parton. Born in rural Tennessee in 1946, Parton transformed her beginnings in the Smoky Mountains into a career that made her one of the most successful singer-songwriters in history. Songs like “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” “9 to 5,” and “I Will Always Love You” became classics, while...

If you need a break from multiple networks flooding the airwaves with shark content, look no further than TheArchive where we boast our own animals gone wild list. It's Everything But Sharks Week. This first one  r anked among the most successful films of 1976. Grizzly  was produced on a $750,000 budget, becoming   the most successful independent   motion picture of of that year, earning more than $39 million worldwide. Of course that's a year after Jaws debuted with a $470 million dollar take on a $12 million budget. But dollar for dollar, while Jaws was more profitable, the ratios are not that far off. Grizzly boasts a crew of more future Academy Award winners and nominees per capita than most legit Oscar films! Eight in fact! Sink your teeth into that. One of them must have been responsible for blowing up the bear much like Jaws saw its demise a year before.... Grizzly was directed by WIlliam Girdler and produced by the wildly bizarre and ironicall...