Dolly

I may have mentioned once or twice, ahem, cough, that I love Dolly Parton.

Now, one of the many things I love about Dolly is her sense of humor about herself, one of the expressions of which is her well-known fondness and appreciation for the drag performers who "do Dolly."

And this has to be the greatest thing evah:

Dolly admits she once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest in Santa Monica. "Lots of drag queens dress up on Halloween like Dolly, and that was back when everybody was dressing like Cher or like me. So I thought how fun would this be?" she says. "I just kind of over-exaggerated everything I am—bigger hair, bigger beauty mark, bigger boobs, if you can imagine."

Standing just over 5 feet without heels, Dolly says she was the smallest contestant there. "Here all these big drag queens are at least 6 feet tall with their high heels," she says. "I was kind of lost in the shuffle. They didn't take me serious at all."

Dolly ended up coming in second place. "I did it just for fun," she says. "It was just fun to tell the story."

OMG. I love her to pieces. There's something just indescribably great about a lady who enters a lookalike contest in which contestants are trying to look like her, and is genuinely tickled by not being considered a serious contender.

You rock, Dolly.