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« on: April 11, 2010, 01:41:22 PM »

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Designing Women" star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, has died at age 70.

Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. He declined to disclose the cause of death or where she died. Carter lived with Holbrook in the Los Angeles area.

"This has been a terrible blow to our family," Holbrook said in a written statement. "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy."

A native of Tennessee, Carter was most famous for playing wisecracking Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on "Designing Women," the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1993. The series was the peak of a career in which she often played wealthy and self-important but independent Southern women.

She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit "Desperate Housewives."

Carter's other credits include roles on the series "Family Law" and "Diff'rent Strokes."

She married Holbrook in 1984. The two had met four years earlier while making the TV movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," and although attracted to one another, each had suffered two failed marriages and were wary at first.

They finally wed two years before Carter landed her role on "Designing Women." Holbrook appeared on the show regularly in the late 1980s as her boyfriend, Reese Watson.

The two appeared together in her final project, the 2009 independent film "That Evening Sun," shot in Tennessee and based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay.

The middle of three children, Carter was born in 1939 in McLemoresville, Tenn.

Carter was the daughter of a grocery and department store owner who died just three years ago at 96. She said at the time of his death that he taught her to believe in people's essential goodness.

"When I asked him how he handled shoplifting in his new store, which had a lot of goods on display, making it impossible to keep an eye on everything, he said, 'Most people are honest, and if they weren't, you couldn't stay in business because a thief will find a way to steal,'" Carter said. "'You can't really protect yourself, but papa and I built our business believing most people are honest and want to do right by you.'"

Carter grew up in Carroll County and made her stage debut in a 1960 production of "Carousel" in Memphis. It was the beginning of a decades-long stage career in which she relied on her singing voice as much as her acting.

She appeared in TV soap operas in the 1970s, but did not become a national star until her recurring roles on "Diff'rent Strokes" and another series, "Filthy Rich," in the 1980s.

Those two parts led to her role on "Designing Women," a comedy about the lives of four women at an interior design firm in Atlanta.

Carter and Delta Burke played the sparring sisters who ran the firm. The series also starred Annie Potts and Jean Smart.

The show, whose reruns have rarely left the airwaves, was not a typical sitcom. It tackled such topics as sexism, ageism, body image and AIDS.

"It was something so unique, because there had never been anything quite like it," Potts told The Associated Press at a 2006 cast reunion. "We had Lucy and Ethel, but we never had that exponentially expanded, smart, attractive women who read newspapers and had passions about things and loved each other and stood by each other."

Carter appeared on the drama "Family Law" from 1999 to 2002, and in her last major TV appearance she played Gloria Hodge, the surly mother-in-law to Marcia Cross's Bree on "Desperate Housewives."

Carter said the role was far from the kindly woman she played on "Designing Women."

"It's a vast difference," Carter said while filming the series. "Gloria Hodge doesn't have any redeeming qualities except her intelligence."

In addition to Holbrook, Carter is survived by daughters Mary Dixie and Ginna.
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2010, 02:33:14 PM »

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/11/dixie-carter-ripdesigning-women/
Dixie Carter, R.I.P.: Her five best 'Designing Women' moments
April 11, 2010

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« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 07:59:22 AM »

Hello Monkeys,


Musical Memories

http://designingwomenonline.com/Music/   an angelic monkey an angelic monkey an angelic monkey an angelic monkey


By popular request, Designing Women Tribute presents a guide to the musical selections and performances featured on Designing Women. Listen to each version of the series' theme, and then examine the key songs used to enhance each episode while listening to soundbites of your favorite characters' performances.

You need RealPlayer to listen to the soundbites. Click HERE for the page to download the free software if you don't already have it.



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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 08:04:11 AM »

Dixie's version of Ave Maria is nice for any Monkeys.  an angelic monkey

http://designingwomenonline.com/Music/


Season Three


THE CANDIDATE
Banana Boat Song - performed by Anthony/Meshach Taylor
Sixteen Tons - performed by Anthony/Meshach Taylor

E.P. PHONE HOME
Red Rover Au-tel (Heartbreak Hotel) - performed by Charlene/Jean Smart & Mary Jo/Annie Potts
Burning Love - performed by Anthony/Meshach Taylor and Charlene/Jean Smart
Are you Lonesome Tonight - performed by Del/Pete Wilcox
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley, 1960

ONE SEES, THE OTHER DOESN'T
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder, 1970

FULL MOON
Full Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1969

THE ENGAGEMENT
Wedding Bell Blues - Unidentified instrumental version

COME ON AND MARRY ME, BILL
Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis, 1961
Wedding Bell Blues (Come On and Marry Me, Bill) - The Fifth Dimension, 1969
My Buddy (lyrics) - performed by Julia/Dixie Carter with Delta Burke and Annie Potts
Ave Maria - performed by Julia/Dixie Carter
Off We Go, Into the Wild Blue Yonder - instrumental performed by unknown

THE WOMEN OF ATLANTA
You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker, 1986
This Is All I Ask - Tony Bennett, 1963
I Love Lucy (TV theme song) - Harold Adamson and Eliot Daniel, 1951

THE LAST HUMOROUSLY DRESSED BELLBOY IN AMERICA
Proud Mary - performed by Reggie Mac/Danny Thomason
Mack the Knife - performed by Reggie Mac/Danny Thomason
Delta Dawn - performed by Reggie Mac/Danny Thomason




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