# Dixie Carter--RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699 "2010-04-11T03:56:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/1 "2010-04-11T03:56:05Z")
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](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijoPRR4kAxfAAWVU6_RJ-lm3M5CAD9F0K7KO0) I may have seen ever episode of _Designing Women_. I’m sad. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/2 "2010-04-11T04:01:34Z")
A true Southern belle. Rest in peace, old girl. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/3 "2010-04-11T04:11:25Z")
And this is the night, the lights, went out in GEOR-GIA! [(Designing Women reference)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV86kehwkc0&NR=1) That is the Dixie I will always remember. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/4 "2010-04-11T06:19:28Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/5 "2010-04-11T07:03:39Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/6 "2010-04-11T07:41:50Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/7 "2010-04-11T09:02:04Z")
RIP Ms. Carter. I’ll be thinking of you whenever I smell magnolias blossoming. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/8 "2010-04-11T12:06:15Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![halfliquid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@halfliquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halfliquid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/9 "2010-04-11T16:23:32Z")
She was classy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/10 "2010-04-11T16:33:54Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Evening_Sun_%28film%29). Ironically her character is dead and appears only in flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/11 "2010-04-11T17:11:11Z")
Her performance in the Designing Women episode[Killing All The Right People](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_All_the_Right_People) was perfection. > [@Julia Sugarbaker](#): > > [Imogene, get serious! Who do you think you’re talking to?! I’ve known you for 27 years, and all I can say is, if God was giving out sexually transmitted diseases to people as a punishment for sinning, then you would be at the free clinic all the time! And so would the rest of us! RIP Dixie ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/12 "2010-04-11T17:31:34Z")
Merged threads by **samclem** and **Quasimodem**. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/13 "2010-04-11T17:37:27Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/14 "2010-04-11T17:56:16Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Married to Hal Holbrook for 25 years. Life sucks. 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. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/15 "2010-04-11T18:08:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Evening_Sun_%28film%29). Ironically her character is dead and appears only in flashbacks. Oh my - I loved the book of short stories and didn’t realize there was a movie of the short. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/16 "2010-04-11T22:37:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/17 "2010-04-11T22:39:28Z")
In the comments on tmz someone claims that she had cancer and was in a cancer treatment center. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/18 "2010-04-11T22:45:03Z")
[Another](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLImJDf2PII) of my favorite moments. She really had a beautiful voice. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/19 "2010-04-12T00:01:55Z")
I’m shocked, I thought she had another 20 years left in her. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699/20 "2010-04-12T00:02:09Z")
… 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dixie-carter-rip/535699.md?page=2)