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Brown's appearance: "Country music exemplifies America's heartbeat, and I don't think its heartbeat is below the belly button." Squelching critics with an unexpected navel maneuver, Brown indicated he would forego below the belly button hits like Sex Machine in favor of Love Me Tender and Tennessee Waltz. "Anything dirty about that?" grinned he.
On the Record
Dolly Parton, country singer, on the art in her splashy new Fifth Avenue apartment: "Some of the pictures cost a lot of money, and I can't help thinkin', 'Good Lord, I coulda done that in first grade.'"
Gerald Ford, former President: "I certainly am not a candidate. But I learned a long time ago never to say never."
Claudette Colbert, 73, actress, looking back over her threescore movies: "I would love to have played bitches, but I only played one really, in The Sign of the Cross. I loved every minute of it."