Actress Dixie Carter - best known for playing Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women - has died at the age of 70. As of right now there are no other details. This is so sad.
In tribute, I present to you Julia's most famous rant - "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia"...
so sad
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. I love Designing Women. She was a very talented actress.
ReplyDeletewha? no! she outlived hal holbrook? thats amazing. i love this speech, but i think i prefer the "Ray Don" speech in the restaurant even better.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure we won't be the only 2 queens posting that speech tonight!
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing her as Brandy Henderson on the soap opera Edge of Night. Oh, my. Adam Drake, midnight on New Year's Eve... Oh, my.
ReplyDeleteThat was one of my favorite shows, and I never missed it. Such sad news.
ReplyDeletei believe hal is still alive he was in a movie that came to Kansas City about a month ago
ReplyDeleteomg, so sad! i didn't watch a lot of designing women b/c i was too young (my sis and mom watched it, though), but i need to get on it now. i hope hulu has some! julia is life!
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing her as Brandy Henderson on the soap opera Edge of Night. Oh, my. Adam Drake, midnight on New Year's Eve... Oh, my.
ReplyDeleteNo one did a rant quite as eloquently as Dixie Carter. She was beautiful, intelligent and fierce. RIP, Dixie. You will be missed.
ReplyDeleteShe was in rare form in FILTHY RICH series in the 80s - being a Southerner myself her passing stretches my heart strings almost to the breaking point .
ReplyDeleteWhat a TRUE STEEL MAGNOLIA of a lady