Members SFK Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/04/85796/ http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Dixie_Cater_on_Stage_Passes_Away_at_70_20000101 http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE_TUBE_Dixie_Carter_Talks_Life_Career_Passes_Away_at_70_20100410 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 Had she been ill? This is shocking news! She will be missed. I remember last seeing her on DH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 No WAY!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dc cubs Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 May she rest in peace. I loved her as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 WHAT!?!?!?!? I love, love, love her. Grew up watching her on Designing Women, even loved her on Diff'rent Strokes. She was a major part of the last time I thought Desperate Housewives was good, too. RIP, my dear. My thoughts are with her friends and family, especially Hal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcar03 Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 "Just so you know and your children will someday know that is the night the lights went out in Georgia" My Favorite Designing Women moment: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted April 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 I just cannot believe this, and Lord knows I've lost some of my dearest loved ones suddenly and at early ages, but wow, some celebs you've admired over the years, you just expect that you'll have more time with. Dixie is someone I definitely would have loved to have met. I hope a fan will bless up by uploading her hilarious episodes of Filthy Rich. Like AMS, my fandom started with Diff'rent Strokes, and my God, Designing Women, that woman could deliver anything from a slow burn to a full-fledged monologue like NO other. My heart goes out to Hal and her daughters, who played her nieces in an episode of DW as a matter of fact. I'm sure her DW family is just devastated. Yes! Love it, gives me church chills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 I've always thought Designing Women was a rubbish show and a watered down Southern Belle version of The Golden Girls, but I've always loved Dixie. She had an intelligent, yet charming and even strangely sexy appeal to her. RIP Dixie Carter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 Yeah, I felt is was a cheap imitation of Golden Girls. Later in my years I have learned to like DW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 Dixie also appeared briefly on The Doctors and subbed as Dorian on OLTL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted April 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 Oh she was certainly sexy. That feline energy, she moved beautifully and looked great in clothes, and with that wonderfully husky voice of hers she did marvelous things with text. Dixie Carter and Phylicia Rashad were two '80s sitcom queens who would have been excellent '80s primetime soap divas. <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object> This one is very Mommie Dearest PepsiCo scene: <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is the original Marc Cherry. Unimaginative, repetitious, and terribly executed camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 What year is the jury duty episode? I actually liked that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted April 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 You know, we watched both shows every week at my house and I never got that. Of course I drew the character parallels but the shows had such different energies. TGG was sort of a mix of super witty set-up and punchline jokes and ironic humor with some Jewish and gay sensibilities. DW was a lot more situational (and yes, preachy) and the humor was more based in reality. I guess it was the southern influence, but I always felt that DW was a very "black" show which is kind of hard for me to explain. TGG was always "ha-ha" funny but DW was more likely to "tickle" you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricaKane70 Posted April 11, 2010 Members Share Posted April 11, 2010 OMG, I wasn't prepared when I got on my google homepage. What the hell happened, there hasn't been any news that I know of, of her being ill. She will be missed, I loved her on designing women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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