Dixie Carter just died. At 70. Married to Hal Holbrook for 25 years. Life sucks.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijoPRR4kAxfAAWVU6_RJ-lm3M5CAD9F0K7KO0
I may have seen ever episode of Designing Women. I’m sad.
A true Southern belle. Rest in peace, old girl.
And this is the night, the lights, went out in GEOR-GIA!
(Designing Women reference)
That is the Dixie I will always remember.
And wasn’t I an asshole for writing she looked like the joker?
Sometimes what you write here can make you feel like shit.
I feel like shit.
She was just a pretty lady trying to hold it all together, and didn’t she manage it with ease?
Sometimes you have to cast your eyes beyond what you see.
And sometimes, you just need to be wrong.
I was wrong.
Bill
Everybody dies eventually. Five years ago, when Michael Jackson was on trial, I made many scathing comments about him on the net*. I’m sorry he died, but I didn’t feel compelled to retract my earlier statements. Why should I? He didn’t die because of what I said about him. And everyone dies eventually.
*When he was acquitted, I emailed my mom, saying “I would like to turn in my human race membership card, please. Where does one go to do that?” She replied, “If I knew, I would have done it when Bush stole the election.”
Yeah, but the two don’t “match up”, do they?
Rilchiam, mah buddy.
Yes, death is death, but sometimes, somebody needs to say “Whoah”
I RIPPED that woman up one side and down the other, and WHY?
Because I wanted to be cute and say something funny and sarcastic.
I have no room to talk. I have no room to talk.
I need slappin’ upside the head.
Is what I need.
R.I.P. Dixie Carter.
Bill
RIP Ms. Carter. I’ll be thinking of you whenever I smell magnolias blossoming.
I’ve read in real life Dixie Carter was very conservative, nothing like Julia Sugarbaker and that in order to get her to read some of those “rants” the producers allowed her to sing on the show as a trade off.
I remember her first from a half way decent show called “On Our Own,” with Bess Armstrong and Lyn Greene.
I also read she didn’t hit it off well with Gary Coleman, 'causing her role to recast when “Diff’rent Strokes” moved from NBC to ABC
She was classy.
Has anybody read what she died of? I was curious whether it was expected or not.
I’m actually going this week to see a movie she and her husband were recently in called That Evening Sun. Ironically her character is dead and appears only in flashbacks.
Her performance in the Designing Women episodeKilling All The Right People was perfection.
RIP Dixie
Merged threads by samclem and Quasimodem.
Loved Dixie’s pizazz and sassy, witty attitude. The article in the paper said that the cause of death wasn’t being released and that Hal referred it to as a “tragedy” in a written response to the press. Consider the source so I can’t attest to the accuracy of Hal’s statement.
RIP Dixie. 
I’m not sure that came out quite the way you meant.
Recent photos of her don’t show just how striking she was a few years back. A classy lady, for sure.
Oh my - I loved the book of short stories and didn’t realize there was a movie of the short. Thanks.
I thought she was great in DW. She was an outspoken feminist (on the show) at a time when that was still edgy (and prior to feminism being demonized). I loved her zingers.
In the comments on tmz someone claims that she had cancer and was in a cancer treatment center.
Another of my favorite moments. She really had a beautiful voice.
I’m shocked, I thought she had another 20 years left in her.
… that I’m “coming across as an ass” in this thread. That was not my intent. My intent was to show I was an ass for having made fun of her in the first place.
I am sorry for any misunderstanding my posts/thread may have caused.