Ep. 136: Before the Parade Passes By

Published: March 9, 2016, 8:01 a.m.

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On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason return from a weekend spent LadyWatching in Palm Springs at both\\xa0Carol Channing's 95th Birthday Celebration and Shirley MacLaine's apparent town hall meeting. Plus: Aretha Franklin is gonna get paid, Dolly Parton's busy year\\xa0ahead in recording, touring, television, and theatre (and how she's subsidizing\\xa0Kenny Rogers), internet flack over Leslie Jones' Ghostbusters character (and Leslie's flack right back), a TV Land reboot of First Wives Club to fill their Lady void, Gladys Knight's trick for getting out of a traffic ticket (but still won't work\\xa0with the Board of Health), Bjork stands up to her (mostly male) critics, Grace Coddington wants you to smell like roses, Isabella Rossellini re-teams with an iconic collaborator, things you may not know about Loretta Lynn, Jason retracts\\xa0a previous statement\\xa0about Vanessa Williams' capabilities, what Sandy Duncan's kids most probably bought mom for her birthday, and much much more!

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