I mentioned on a friend's Facebook page that Julia Sugarbaker, the character played by Dixie Carter in 'Designing Women', was one of the few TV characters that could promote a cause with an impassioned speech within the show and still never lose sight of who she was as the character. Julia Sugarbaker was never just the conduit for the script-writer in that sense. James Spader as Alan Shore on 'Boston Legal' and most of the cast of 'The West Wing' fell into that same category.
Dixie Carter passed away yesterday at the age of 70. She will be missed in Toobworld, and we could have used Julia Sugarbaker today in the real world.....
As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"
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