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Jul 30, 2021 · So, when Burke got booted off of "Designing Women" in 1991 for reportedly clashing with show creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason — who Carter publicity defended in the feud — things went south...
Apr 12, 2010 · Latest. To a particular generation of women, Dixie Carter—who passed away this weekend from cancer—is fondly remembered as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women. But in real life, Carter...
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These days most women wouldn’t think twice about telling a man to go away if he is making them uncomfortable. Whether it was feminism or simply that the “pick-up artists” of the aughts made it necessary to develop the skill (lest one end up trapped in a conversation with a man in a large velvet hat who thinks the way to a woman’s heart is through i...
In this infuriatingly prescient episode, Julia decides to get into politics and make a run against Wilson Brickett, Atlanta’s aggressively terrible and misogynistic commissioner, after she sees him on television talking about bringing prayer back to schools, getting rid of homeless shelters, and responding to a female employee’s accusation that he ...
As much as we’d all surely love to look back at a sitcom from 30 years ago and say, “Gee! It’s amazing how much has changed! It sure is great that we don’t have to deal with that anymore!” we’re not that far along yet. One of the areas in which we’ve made little progress over the years is the way in which women’s concerns about their health are sti...
As outdated and almost corny as it seems now for an adult sitcom to have a “very special episode” explaining that you can’t get AIDS from shaking hands, it is hard to overstate how very necessary that kind of thing was in 1987. This episode aired just a few months after the first time Ronald Reagan “seriously” addressed the AIDS epidemic after year...
Anyone who has siblings knows the rule: “I can say whatever I want to them, but if someone else goes after my sister and/or brother... they must go down.” After surreptitiously listening to the current Miss Georgia World drag Suzanne, the former Miss Georgia World, for her old-timey big hair and baton twirling, Julia—who ardently loathes beauty pag...
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- NONE OF THE LEAD ACTRESSES HAD TO AUDITION FOR THEIR ROLES. When Linda Bloodworth-Thomason decided to create a show about four intelligent, sassy Southern women, she had Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, and Annie Potts in mind from the start.
- ANTHONY BOUVIER WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE A REGULAR CHARACTER. Anthony Bouvier was originally supposed to make a one-time appearance in the sixth episode of season one.
- A LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN SAVED THE SHOW FROM CANCELLATION. Midway through season one, CBS moved Designing Women from its Monday night time slot to Thursday, directly opposite NBC’s Night Court.
- DIXIE CARTER HAD SOME “DESIGN” WORK OF HER OWN DONE AFTER THE FIRST SEASON. Dixie Carter was 47 years old when Designing Women debuted in 1986. Keen-eyed fans probably noticed a slight difference in Julia Sugarbaker’s appearance between seasons one and two.
Jan 8, 2015 · Culture & Life. Art. Features. Dixie Carter, 1939–2010. The actress who oozed Southern charm. By The Week Staff. last updated 8 January 2015. As the star of the CBS sitcom Designing Women,...
Julia Sugarbaker ( Dixie Carter) is an elegant, sophisticated, outspoken woman who is the co-founder and president of Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior design firm located in her own home in Atlanta.
Apr 12, 2010 · Dixie Carter, an actress who gave strong, opinionated Southern women a good name in the television series “Designing Women” in the 1980s and 1990s and later had success as a cabaret...
