Dolly Parton's 'Mae West,' cartoon dropped

SCRIPPS HOWARD
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Dolly Parton's dream of playing Mae West for ABC is finished.
The singer said recently that ABC is nixing the project. Had it come to fruition, Parton would have acted out West's life story in a TV movie of the week.
"They stopped doing it altogether because [ABC] is going to stop doing [so many] movies of the week," Parton says. "'Mae West' has completely fallen through."
Parton has talked fondly of the "Mae West" project often in recent years. The problem has always been finding the proper script. ABC wasn't happy with any draft. Parton saw scripts only when ABC passed them along to her.
The "Mae West" project has gone through a series of writers.
Also gone is a musical animated venture for Disney featuring a cartoon Parton. She says that this project ended for a variety of reasons, but among them was Disney's reluctance toward using mountain music heavily in the soundtrack.
But Parton says Disney was keen on hearing Parton's voice in an animated character and liked the way she looked in cartoon form.
"These things didn't disappoint me. You pick up and move on. The animated thing would have taken like five years to do. That ties you up in ways that you don't want to be," she said. "It would have been great if it had all tied together."