PART III

City of Schemes

“Along came The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The wonderful time I had on 9 to 5 had whetted my appetite for another movie. Whorehouse was a completely opposite experience. It was as if 9 to 5 had been my first lover, sweetly seductive before and gentle and caring during our lovemaking. Whorehouse, then, was a rapist.”

—From Dolly: My Life and Other
Unfinished Business
, 1994