From the WDE Daily Report and the Orlando Sentinel
Wynonna Drops Into Disney on a King-Sized Mission
(Orlando Sentinel) -- Attention, Disney tourists. Yes, that dazzling redhead you saw, subjecting herself to the Tower of Terror, repeatedly, during the weekend looked familiar. Country superstar Wynonna, "Ashley Judd's sister," she jokingly calls herself, was in town, children Elijah and Grace in tow, to do a little Disney and take care of a little business. The kids did Tower of Terror and the rest of the big park. Wynonna met with the na-tional and international press to talk about singing an Elvis tune ("Burning Love") on the soundtrack of the El-vis-friendly cartoon, Lilo & Stitch, which opens June 21. "If you had said, two years ago, 'You're gonna sing an Elvis song in a Disney movie,' I would've laughed," she says with a grin. "It's absurd! But I love it, because I am getting crazier by the year." Wynonna just turned 38, and after a lifetime of Elvis comparisons -- she signed with RCA-Nashville at 18, just like "The King"; her stepdad sang backup for Elvis -- she was ready to step into his Blue Suede Shoes, if only for a little while. "She's a logical choice to cover his songs, because she's al-ways had that real rock 'n' roll side, and always talked about loving Elvis," says Wayne Bledsoe, a Tennessee-based music critic for Scripps Howard newspapers. The hair is flaming red. The blouse is an Elvis-in-Hawaii thing "that I bought off the rack, honey." And the rhinestone-studded shades never come off during a chat about the movie, about "moving into Ashley's turf." She did the movie, "because Elijah is 7½, and Grace is 6, and you don't get many chances to look cool to your kids." She's dabbling with her long-planned autobiogra-phy, and she's working on an album "of chaos -- some songs are attitude, some songs are prayers." She has a Lifetime Intimate Portrait coming up June 21, and an ABC special on Lilo & Stitch that airs the same night. She has the chance to make Ashley show up at one of her movie premieres, "for a change." And she figures she'll have just enough time between now and then to recover from the Tower of Terror. "The kids loved it, but I hated it. The idea of being shut in an elevator, in the dark, scares me to death. The dropping? That's nothing, honey. I'm in the music business. But the darkness is just too much."
Wynonna Drops Into Disney on a King-Sized Mission
(Orlando Sentinel) -- Attention, Disney tourists. Yes, that dazzling redhead you saw, subjecting herself to the Tower of Terror, repeatedly, during the weekend looked familiar. Country superstar Wynonna, "Ashley Judd's sister," she jokingly calls herself, was in town, children Elijah and Grace in tow, to do a little Disney and take care of a little business. The kids did Tower of Terror and the rest of the big park. Wynonna met with the na-tional and international press to talk about singing an Elvis tune ("Burning Love") on the soundtrack of the El-vis-friendly cartoon, Lilo & Stitch, which opens June 21. "If you had said, two years ago, 'You're gonna sing an Elvis song in a Disney movie,' I would've laughed," she says with a grin. "It's absurd! But I love it, because I am getting crazier by the year." Wynonna just turned 38, and after a lifetime of Elvis comparisons -- she signed with RCA-Nashville at 18, just like "The King"; her stepdad sang backup for Elvis -- she was ready to step into his Blue Suede Shoes, if only for a little while. "She's a logical choice to cover his songs, because she's al-ways had that real rock 'n' roll side, and always talked about loving Elvis," says Wayne Bledsoe, a Tennessee-based music critic for Scripps Howard newspapers. The hair is flaming red. The blouse is an Elvis-in-Hawaii thing "that I bought off the rack, honey." And the rhinestone-studded shades never come off during a chat about the movie, about "moving into Ashley's turf." She did the movie, "because Elijah is 7½, and Grace is 6, and you don't get many chances to look cool to your kids." She's dabbling with her long-planned autobiogra-phy, and she's working on an album "of chaos -- some songs are attitude, some songs are prayers." She has a Lifetime Intimate Portrait coming up June 21, and an ABC special on Lilo & Stitch that airs the same night. She has the chance to make Ashley show up at one of her movie premieres, "for a change." And she figures she'll have just enough time between now and then to recover from the Tower of Terror. "The kids loved it, but I hated it. The idea of being shut in an elevator, in the dark, scares me to death. The dropping? That's nothing, honey. I'm in the music business. But the darkness is just too much."
