Presidents & Prime Ministers
This President was in power when Jean Chretien faced the most stressful night of his career on October 30, 1995
Bill Clinton
"What a little while since she and everyone else had thought that Atlanta could never fall, that Georgia could never be invaded. But the small cloud that appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado, sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life, and dropping her down in the midst of this still, haunted desolation."
Gone With the Wind
In one Dolly song, she is home alone while listening to her neighbours this many doors down, laughin’ and drinkin’ and having a party
Two
Although he lived in England most of his adult life, this Irish author based his fictional land off of his native Ulster, saying “one almost expects to see a march of dwarfs dashing past.”
C.S. Lewis
This star was first married to a now controversial Bible misquoter, then to a Legolass, and now is into ex-politicians apparently.
Katy Perry
This man, whose name might ring a bell particularly to local HPGers, was Prime Minister of Canada when French President Charles de Gaulle shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” from the balcony of Montreal City Hall
Lester B. Pearson
“Look and learn, all citizens of Thebes. This is _______, who knew the famed riddles and was aman most powerful. Which of the citizens did not look with envy on his fortune? See into what a stormy sea of dreadful trouble he has come! Therefore, maintaining your eyes on that final day, call no man fortunate until he has crossed life’s border without suffering pain.”
Oedipus Rex
Dolly first released this song (written in the same afternoon as Jolene in 1974, but Whitney Houston sang it for this 1992 movie.
The Bodyguard
This fictional New England resort town is terrorized by a marine monster in a classic summer blockbuster
Amity Island
This wife famously has no interest in her husband’s sport, but despite that have been a hallmark of English celebrity couples since the 90s
This man was President of Russia when the U.S. President asked him to do some remodeling of his country’s borders.
Gorbachev
“Moscow was burned by its citizens - that is true; not, however, by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away.”
War and Peace
Together with her god-daughter, Dolly sang a blend of her song “I Will Always Love You” and this hit pop bulldozer song by her god-daughter, at a recently broadcasted NYE’s concert.
Wrecking Ball
A Shakespearean rom-com where siblings are separated in a shipwreck is set in this exotic land, which is a real ancient name for the Balkan regions, although it is disputed if that is what Will is referencing.
This royal husband was his wife's first cousin, which didn’t stop them from being famously devoted to each other and having nine children together.
Prince Albert
This man became Prime Minister of India during Stephen Harper’s penultimate year in office
“It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons”
A Room with a View
This man was Dolly’s husband for over 50 years, but preferred to remain out of the spotlight and run his asphalt business in Nashville while his wife performed around the world
Carl Dean
This name of a house titles the fourth book in its series, although it was the seventh book written, and is the first only epistolary novel in the series
Windy Poplars
This skincare mogul ended up with teen heartthrob, despite his notorious on-again/off-again relationship with a makeup mogul
Hailey Bieber
This person was English PM when Nixon came into office and when he left office, but not for the years in between
Harold Wilson
“The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.”
The Dubliners
In 1984, Dolly sang a poppy/synthesized version of this country classic, which was this “Folsom Prison” singer’s first number 1 hit.
I Walk the Line
A Disney film was originally set in a real city, but due to geo-political events, it was changed to be set in this fictional Eastern city, an approximate anagram of the real city.
Agrabah
This Byzantine empress commissioned the construction of Hagia Sophia, and is thought to have been the brains behind her husband, and the cutthroat executioner of her own will in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century
Theodosia