Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights

Two Hee Haw Honeys Dish Life, Love, Elvis, Buck, and Good Times in the Kornfield

By: Victoria Hallman, Diana Goodman

Narrated by: Victoria Hallman, Diana Goodman

In their star-studded memoir, Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights, coauthors Victoria Hallman and Diana Goodman are the first of the iconic Hee Haw Honeys to write about their lives as the glamour gals of TV's longest-running syndicated variety show.

©2019 Victoria Hallman and Diana Goodman (P)2019 BearManor Media

Nothing to pick and grin about

Pretty good read. But the stories are not long enough. Victoria didn't talk about why she left Her Haw and life after that. Diana didn't tell about her life after leaving Hee Haw. It's sad about how she waited for Elvis. I like both of their narration of the stories.

Nice but a mystery, lol

I liked that the authors narrated their own stories. I did not like the back and forth with the seperate stories though. I spent much of my time trying to remember what happened to whom from the previous chapters, mixing up the two women's stories all too often. I was confused on how these women came together in one book, since we were left hanging with one being fired for dating the other's husband! I kept waiting for the big friendship to form between the two women, showing how they co wrote the book. Vicky's life story felt complete but Diana's not so much. Getting the inside scoop on Elvis, Hee Haw and many stars of my childhood was great though!

Much Ado About Nothing

The slowest Hollywood tell all in history made virtually intolerable by the narrator's flat emotionless veeerrry careful pronunciations. Also nobody interesting in anecdotes. Buck Owens, man in heat. Gimme a break. Skip it- even the most rabid Hee Haw fan will yawn.

Ugh why is Diana forcing the southern accent?

Diana makes herself sound like a desperate obsessed fan girl ..loved her in an interview I watched but this forced over the top southern accent and fan obsessed girl makes me see why Elvis ditched her yikes! Also lots of details changed in her story in the book vs the more genuine interview I watched on YouTube . Kind of lost trust in her story when she talks about how “they told me to go wait in the jungle room , I didn’t know what a jungle room was” (in her over the top bimbo forced southern accent) well that’s a lie bc it wasn’t even called the jungle room until 1980s! This would have been much better if she would have been herself. I don’t know the other girl so I didn’t listen to her part plus it’s odd and confusing that they wrote a book together w different stories!

Should be 2 books, not 1

Both of the authors should’ve just written their own book. Not enough connection between the women, to collaborate on a book together. They were in Hee-Haw. There ya go. The alternating chapters for each author to take a turn, was annoying. I just skipped to make each authors story continue until the end.
Dianna…..ugh. She had a few dates with Elvis and wrote about it. The rest of her life didn’t receive great attention in the book so just write a pamphlet about the few dates with Elvis and be done. What life experiences she did write about really came across as a fame seeking woman looking for men to help her achieve her goal. When fans of Elvis spoke about her or tabloids mentioned her name/picture, that’s what was important to her. She put herself in weird situations seeking fame. Also, she used so many cliché!! Every chapter seem to have a famous cliché!!