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!!

I COULD LISTEN TO THESE HEE HAW GALS FOREVER!!

I read this book when it first came out and enjoyed it so much — when I finished, felt like the authors were my new best friends — so I thought I’d like to hear what they had to say, in their own voices. I downloaded on Audible and boy was I right! Each of these ladies has a very distinct voice that matches her words as i had read them in the book, just as I had expected Diana and Victoria to sound, so that once I started listening I felt like they were right there with me, telling me their stories. Now, when I start missing my two new “friends,” I just click on the Audible version for a visit.

Very entertaining if you have that type of humor

I wanted to listen to this book for the Elvis tidbits , and ended up chuckling instead while wishing the audio book would have shown a picture of the famous “Daisy Mae “ dress . Starting off , I felt like I was listening to a school girl’s diary . Diana seems very entitled and confident that her beauty can get her through life and excuse her behavior which very much is centered around a “me me me” personality . I found it funny that when reading Elvis’ parts , it was like Forrest Gump was narrating . Lol . I skipped through the other parts of the story that did not include Diana Goodman because I just could not follow the story with the monotone voice . Overall , I think Diana is more charming and entertaining in personal interviews , rather than this book, which left me realizing there truly are girls like her , and most likely the answer to why Elvis never called back . Very entertaining to hear a ditzy perspective of life and how dreams of becoming rich and famous Come true . Giving 5 stars for the overall entertainment value of the Elvis parts .

It’s free and don’t bother.

She gives blondes a bad name. I just couldn’t push my way through this. I couldn’t tell if she’s trying to be funny or is she just that stupid.