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Dolly Parton ‘Alive and Well’ Despite Death Rumor:

Dolly Parton is “alive and well” despite a rumor Friday night that the legendary country star had died at a Tennessee hospital from congestive heart failure.

David Dotson, president of the Dollywood Foundation in Tennessee, told FOXNews.com that the rumor that Parton died at Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center is false and Parton is “alive and well.”

As for the source of the rumor, Dotson says he has “no idea whatsoever.”

I don’t know about you, but I feel better now…

It looks like thanks to SoundExchange, I may soon have to find a new source for background music while I’m working, Pandora the free music site may soon be calling it quits:

Pandora — practically the poster child for online radio — says it will shut down if royalty rates enacted in March of 2007 are not altered soon.

“We’re losing money as it is,” founder Tim Westergren’s told The Washington Post. “The moment we think this problem in Washington is not going to get solved, we have to pull the plug because all we’re doing is wasting money,” adding, “We’re funded by venture capital. They’re not going to chase a company whose business model has been broken. So if it doesn’t feel like its headed towards a solution, we’re done.”

Westergren agreed to a hasty interview on Monday but was unavailable to talk due to a family engagement. However, a Pandora spokeswoman said the company has been paying the new royalty fees to SoundExchange since July 2007 and that there’s no specific day on which Pandora will go offline, assuming the rates are not changed. “It’s an ongoing judgment call based on the trajectory of the negotiations,” she said.

I’ll say this, I’m not someone who illegally downloads music… and that’s not because I have any moral problem with doing it, I just never needed to. If Pandora is gone I’m a lot more likely to start scanning Limewire for new music, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

You can tell that Harrison Ford has been around the business a long time. Tom Cruise went crazy at the same time that he was promoting War of The Worlds… Ford at least had the good sense to lose his mind a full month before Indy 4 comes out. Most people will have forgotten about this one by the time it comes out. And for that matter most of his hair will have grown back.

Harrison Ford Gets Waxed for The Environment:

On a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, Access Hollywood was with the legendary actor as he sat down for an experience which left Harrison feeling a bit “naked.”

So why did this icon of the big screen sit down to have his chest waxed as the Access cameras rolled?

Harrison invited Access Hollywood and our guest correspondent Mel B exclusively along as he embarked on a personal project to promote going green.

And just how did Harrison, who is the vice chair of the global environment group Conservation International, want to get his message across?

By waxing his chest, of course.

In an effort to showcase the pain involved in deforestation, Harrison willingly subject himself to the painful process of stripping his chest of all its follicles.

For the love of all things holy Harrison, who feels this “pain” of deforestation? It’s not worth it man! You’re 65 and getting your ears pierced and waxing your chest… what is this, a half-life crisis?

Of course it’s not like I’m a granola-eating environmentalist either.

Oh yeah, if you want to save the environment you should probably have a few of your airplanes crushed into cubes.