And if you didn't love Dolly enough for this, then this story definitely will make you. In an interview with the New York Times , Gail Berman — who was the executive at Sandollar who pitchedas a series and went on to coproduce it — said that when Dolly found out that men at the company had not given her her fair share of theroyalties, Dolly handed her a personal check to cover what she was owed.