{"id":95471,"date":"2026-09-13T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95471"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:47:07","slug":"fayewatch-and-dolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/fayewatch-and-dolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayewatch and Dolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourselves.&nbsp; It\u2019s time for another <strong><em>Fayewatch<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In this story, <strong>Miss Dunaway <\/strong>has a supporting role \u2013 which is a step up from being unemployed.&nbsp; This leading lady of the story is <strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>.&nbsp; After <strong><em>9 to 5<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Best Little Whorehouse in Texas<\/em><\/strong>, Dolly was up for the role of Selena in <strong><em>Supergirl<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the role that was ultimately played by Faye!&nbsp; Back in 1982, Parton told <strong><em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/strong>, \u201cThere\u2019s a part, a starring role, of a witch&#8230;She\u2019s funny, and she\u2019s magical, and she\u2019s all this and that \u2013 and I might do it.\u201d&nbsp; So, what went wrong?&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ll have to go to London for three months, so it depends on if I want to leave home for that much, if I want to be a witch that bad.&nbsp; I think going from a secretary to a madame to a witch wouldn\u2019t be bad.\u201d&nbsp; Years later, she revealed why she turned down the role.&nbsp; \u201cI got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in <em>Supergirl<\/em>.&nbsp; I was kind of insulted.&nbsp; I was impressed with the money but I said, \u201cWhy are you asking me to play an evil witch?&nbsp; Do I come across as an evil witch to you?\u201d&nbsp; Presumably Faye Dunaway, who is impossible to insult, had no problem playing an evil witch.&nbsp; But I suspect she didn\u2019t get anywhere near Dolly\u2019s $7 million paycheck.&nbsp; In fact, the actual <em>Supergirl<\/em> in the film, <strong>Helen Slater<\/strong>, was paid a whopping $70K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourselves.&nbsp; It\u2019s time for another Fayewatch.&nbsp; In this story, Miss Dunaway has a supporting role \u2013 which is a step up from being unemployed.&nbsp; This leading lady of the story is Dolly Parton.&nbsp; After 9 to 5 and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dolly was up for the role of Selena in Supergirl \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95472,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95471\/revisions\/95472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}