KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America Isn’t Ready for a Post-Dolly Parton World. “Her brilliance as a singer and a songwriter were enough to launch her to superstardom. It was how she handled the superstardom that put her in a category of her own. She managed to be both supremely self-confident and self-effacing at the same time. I’ve never seen anything like it; one of those qualities usually pales in comparison to the other. That’s if they can coexist at all.”