Tammy Wynette

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Off the Wall gets all soaped up. WEEKEND MIND-BENDERS. This isn't your kiddo's space opera - there's sharp personal, political and spiritual drama in the too-contemporary fourth season of "Battlestar Galactica" (tonight at 8 and midnight, Universal HD)...

Burn Your Playhouse Down Country icon George Jones defined his career with some landmark duets with Tammy Wynette. So it's fitting that the Possum's new album is a collection of previously unreleased duets featuring a diverse group of partners ranging...

Back in 1992, just before Bill Clinton managed to elbow Jerry Brown, his last remaining competitor, out of the Democratic presidential nomination, my father said something to me that I have never forgotten. "I don't understand," he said, "why you're not...

Naomi Judd had some advice for breakout star Taylor Swift during the Judds' sundown reunion set at the Stagecoach Festival on Saturday. "I remember when Taylor Swift said that winning her [2007 CMA award] was the highlight of her senior year," Judd said....

'Lay off my wife." So says Barack Obama about his controversial spouse, Michelle. The Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination has a grating tendency to dismiss any inconvenient fact as a "distraction" and to label every stinging criticism...

If Eddy Arnold really is the most successful country music hit maker of all time, why haven't we heard more about him in recent years? I've heard that question a lot in the days since the Tennessee native, who helped broaden the appeal of country music...

Deja vu? If Spitzergate is creeping you out, think how Hillary Clinton must feel. Just when she was supposedly "hitting her stride," along comes a world-class sex scandal that reminds us of the darkest days of her husband's administration. For all...

Shelby Lynne, hiding behind vintage sunglasses and a casual sneer, slumped back against a bus-stop bench on Sunset Boulevard and checked her cell phone one more time. Lynne's manager was still fighting cross-town traffic, and the singer was overdue for...

When Hillary Clinton opened her Washington townhouse for a political fundraiser last fall, the highlight for a select few came after the movers and shakers wrote their checks and left. Despite her fame and power, Clinton keeps in regular touch with the...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sparked a Martin Luther King Day political firestorm yesterday by describing the GOP-controlled Congress as a "plantation" during a speech before an African-American congregation in Harlem. "When you look at the way the...

Nestle into the plush, cushioned seat. Turn the key and rev the powerful engine. Smoothly shift the automatic transmission into drive, and away you go, zipping across ... the lawn. Welcome to the exciting world of riding lawn mowers. With purring easy-...