Jackee is great on Twitter and this is an example of why. I didn’t even know she had been on Designing Women, much less that she and Dixie bumped heads.
Jackée Harry and Dixie Carter did NOT get along. At all.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | February 12, 2022 9:14 AM |
I wish Dixie was alive and could tweet back
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 14, 2018 12:58 AM |
I just dont get this shit of putting down someone 20 years after they are dead and buried. Why not be a bigger person and let people have their fond memories of someone .Why is all this shade being cast even relevant ? They're dead,for gods sake !
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 14, 2018 1:46 AM |
Maaarrrryy
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 14, 2018 1:50 AM |
It's hard to imagine those two getting along.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 14, 2018 2:27 AM |
r3, Dixie died 8 years ago,not 20.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 14, 2018 2:53 AM |
Jesus r3 they didn't get along, so what? She didn't excavate Dixie's skeleton and piss on the bones. People don't get along, it happens when humans interact - everybody doesn't have to get along
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 14, 2018 2:58 AM |
I eat old people’s excrement.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 14, 2018 3:03 AM |
Someone asked her if she was supposed to be a regular on Designing Women and responded with this. Sounds like Dixie might have played a part in her not returning.
Another comment on Dixie.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 14, 2018 3:05 AM |
Dixie fought with Alice Ghostly from day one, I don't think she got along with any cast members.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 14, 2018 3:06 AM |
Alice stunk as Bernice, esp when they made her a main cast member.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 14, 2018 3:20 AM |
I loved Bernice.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 14, 2018 3:24 AM |
Jackee didn't get along with anyone, either. Marla Gibbs couldn't stand her.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 14, 2018 3:28 AM |
R14, Jackee is still on good terms with Tia and Tamera from Sister, Sister. But Kym Whitley did say Jackee was difficult when she worked as her double on 227. They ended up burying the hatchet later on.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 14, 2018 3:39 AM |
R14 that's because 227 was SUPPOSED to be centered around Gibbs but like Family Matters became about Urkel, 227 started being more focused on Jackeé Harry....who became the central star (and just billed as Jackeé). Marla was NOT amused. I always thought it was odd that Jackeé had a guest spot on AMEN....and not Marla Gibbs who could starred on "The Jeffersons" (AMEN starred Sherman Hemsley who played George Jefferson).
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 14, 2018 3:40 AM |
^^^who HAS not who could
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 14, 2018 3:41 AM |
[Quote]Dixie fought with Alice Ghostly from day one
WHAT? I've never heard any talk about that! What was the bone of contention between them?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 14, 2018 3:58 AM |
Dixie caught Alice going down on Hal Holbrook. And Hal later confessed she was amazing!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 14, 2018 4:08 AM |
Remember Dixie didnt get along with Delta Burke either so it was just a clash of egos. Having said that- adding Jackee to the show certainly wouldve been interesting and might have given the show a couple more seasons.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 14, 2018 4:39 AM |
That's why I had her fired
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 14, 2018 7:31 AM |
Meryl and I were simply on a different level than the others, R11. Dixie and the colored woman were sitcom “stars”, we were actresses. Artists of the theatre.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 14, 2018 7:59 AM |
What role exactly was Jackee going to fill? I assume they were considering her as a girlfriend for Anthony, or was she a replacement for Delta once she’d left.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 14, 2018 1:44 PM |
All fingers point to Julia Duffy.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 14, 2018 1:50 PM |
Dixie was very close to Delta until Delta got into a public war of words with the Thomasons. Dixie sided with the Thomasons.
I’m certain there was major fault on both sides but Delta was bananas at the time, by her own admission.
Dixie should have stayed out of it like the other cast mates did.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 14, 2018 1:56 PM |
She would not have been good on the show.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 14, 2018 2:57 PM |
The DW set was a powder keg.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 14, 2018 3:00 PM |
r3 Saying you didn't get along with someone is hardly "putting someone down."
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 14, 2018 3:20 PM |
I doubt Dixie had that much clout to keep Jackee from being main cast. Maybe she didn't test well with audiences or the networks didn't think she'd be a great fit.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 14, 2018 3:26 PM |
r25
When I was on the show it ranked #6 for the year. That was the highest rated season. When I left, the show tanked.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 14, 2018 3:32 PM |
Yeah, this whole business is weird - weird for Jackee to share that, honestly.
Dixie might have thought Jackee was a vulgar, one note spectacle, though.
BECAUSE SHE IS
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 14, 2018 3:36 PM |
WHET Jackee
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 14, 2018 3:37 PM |
R3 wandered onto the wrong message board . . .
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 14, 2018 3:40 PM |
I'll actually never understand the hate when Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks came on. I liked them quite a good deal and the show seemed to become a bit less preachy and more funny.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 14, 2018 3:48 PM |
Jan Hooks was hilarious, Duffy not so much. They made her character too mean then changed her into a wuss with hardly no lines. They just didn't know what to do with her character.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 14, 2018 3:52 PM |
Jackée was on toward the end of the Julia Duffy season as Anthony's girlfriend. They went with Sheryl Lee Ralph for the execrable final season with Stammerin' Judith Ivey.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 14, 2018 3:53 PM |
She better not tweet about me.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 14, 2018 3:54 PM |
I liked how mean Julia Duffy was. I found it hilarious. They shouldn't have tried to soften her up. She was a nice counterpoint to the other women.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 14, 2018 3:57 PM |
She wasn't shit!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 14, 2018 4:05 PM |
I always thought "Etienne" was an odd name for a female character.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 14, 2018 4:07 PM |
Jackee recently got into a Twitter war with Eureka, one of the RuPaul Drag Queens. On the TV show, Eureka (white) got into a fight with Vixen (black) and Vixen called Eureka a racist. Vixen's fans piled on Eureka, calling her a racist, too. Jackee....a grown woman with grown woman's concerns.... posted nasty things about Eureka online.
Is Jackee a drunk?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 14, 2018 4:13 PM |
Jackee is trying to put together the final dying vestiges of her career.
And failing.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 14, 2018 4:16 PM |
R42, Yes, she's a drunk. She even had an infamous WWHL appearance where she was drunk off her ass the whole time. She's messy as hell and can't get work anymore because of it.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 14, 2018 4:19 PM |
Etienne is Sheryl’s son’s name. I don’t think that Sheryl was a good match for the show at all. And Dixie as Julia was so shrill and sanctimonious that I’m surprised they didn’t give her a soapbox and a klieg light focusing on her only, whenever she did one of those dreadful soliloquies Linda Bloodworth wrote for her. It must’ve taken real acting chops to say some of that stuff, seeing as though Dixie was slightly to the right politically.
The show never really recovered from the loss of Delta and Jean.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 14, 2018 4:24 PM |
Dixie was sanctimonious and self-important, always getting songs Dixied into the script so she could "sing" on the show, and not really that good an actor. In sitcoms she was fine playing a variation of herself, but she was definitely weak tea with any kind of transformational acting, like when she took over as the third Callas in MASTER CLASS on Broadway (she followed Zoe Caldwell and Patti LuPone). Did anyone see her in Thoroughly Modern Millie?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 14, 2018 4:34 PM |
Oh, pish. Dixie was fine.
She was great in the first few years, and was still pretty solid as the comedy got broader - she could do broad.
But the writers changed, Delta and Jean left, and character of Julia was made out to be either a bitch or a fool in seasons 6 and 7. I can imagine Dixie was not having it at ALL.
I loved Bernice but having to play second fiddle to a short elderly woman yelling "Black man, black man, where have you gone to" every fucking episode would wear on MY nerves, too.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 14, 2018 4:40 PM |
The one saving grace of the awful final season was that they said "fuck it" and let Bernice go completely off the rails.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 14, 2018 4:43 PM |
Eureka O'Hara deserves every bit of scorn thrown her way.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 14, 2018 4:45 PM |
I loved the episode with Bernice when the hurricane rip off roof off and she goes on a date with that old hick from the deliverance episode.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 14, 2018 4:46 PM |
[quote]WHET Jackee
She's playing Mrs. Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice - Atlanta."
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 14, 2018 4:50 PM |
R48 What episode was that in?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 14, 2018 4:59 PM |
I worked with Jackée Harry at the Negro Ensemble Co. When I first met her, I thought she was man. Second impression was lesbian. The cupie doll persona is an act. He voice is much, much lower and she is much more butch.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 14, 2018 5:09 PM |
R53, about what year was that? (Or what decade?)
Back when she was young and on TV?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 14, 2018 5:10 PM |
I enjoy Jackee on TV. Enjoy her on Twitter, too.
But I knew Dixie. She was no less vain or serious about her career and image than any other professional actress seeking longevity, but a mean bitch she wasn't - not by a long shot. And when she's vilified for being a Republican, remember that we're talking Reagan-era Republican, when the party was nowhere near as horrific as it is now.
Most of Dixie's close friends were gay. She was an artist, as is Hal Holbrook, and they were more bohemian than you might think.
I'm guessing Jackee sashayed onto that set like she owned it, and that her presumptuousness rankled the regular cast members, Dixie included. We don't know what Jackee's work habits are, either. Dixie might have good reason to dislike her.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 14, 2018 6:05 PM |
Hear hear, R55.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 14, 2018 6:07 PM |
If Dixie were alive today, I'd be willing to bet she'd have switched parties.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 14, 2018 6:13 PM |
It's a joke how a whole bunch of people on that Tweet thread are all now, "Oooh, I knew Miss Dixie was a racist!"
Bitch, two words from a drunk and they are OFF TO THE RACES, projecting all this shit on Dixie. Mob mentality.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 14, 2018 6:14 PM |
Dixie was a lousy singer...when I heard her and Bonnie Franklin’s voices, I was nonplussed. These bitches had stage careers with THOSE voices?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 14, 2018 6:16 PM |
The real question is....what did Rachel Cory and Ada Hobson think of Jackeeeeeeeeee's ass?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 14, 2018 6:18 PM |
I loved Dixie Carter: who can play a Julia Sugarbaker today?
Annie Potts said in some interview I watched a few years back that everytime she approaches a role of the "strong Southern woman type", she asks herself how Dixie would have played it.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 14, 2018 6:19 PM |
Of the actresses around and with name-recognition at the time, I thought Dixie would have been an excellent Endora if it ever went to film.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 14, 2018 6:22 PM |
When Faye Dunaway was getting ready to do her short lived sitcom It Had to Be You, she hung out on the Designing Women set for a week to learn the ropes of sitcom making.
I would love to hear some stories from Annie Potts and Jan Hooks about what went on that week.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 14, 2018 8:45 PM |
I'd forgotten Jackee was on Designing Women, part of a series of bitchy girlfriends for Anthony. Jackee was the only funny one and I wondered why they didn't make her a regular. Now I know, Republican cunt Dixie got her fired.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 14, 2018 8:47 PM |
R63, let's pop out a Ouija board and ask Jan.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 14, 2018 8:55 PM |
Strangely enough, I was at brunch in LA this weekend and was talking about designing women. The guy at the next table worked as a designer on the show and said that Dixie was indeed awful to work for and with.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 14, 2018 8:57 PM |
Jackée was conceited around that time, something she admits to today. She was considering herself an all-out sexy actress when she got a dose of reality - she was offered a role as a mother in the show "Sister, Sister."
She thought she was too young and cute for that, but with no other offers coming her way, she took the part. Luckily for her, it was a popular show, and many fans of that show have fond memories of the mom character she portrayed.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 14, 2018 9:54 PM |
R66, Marc Cherry got his start in the business working as Dixie's personal assistant and he never had one harsh word to say about her. He even cast her in "Desperate Housewives" years later.
The guy at the table next to you was full of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 14, 2018 11:45 PM |
R66 if you are not Marc Cherry how do you know what he’s said privately about Dixie? And people cast people they may not personally like all the time - it’s Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 14, 2018 11:48 PM |
Absolute horseshit, R69.
I work in Hollywood. I guarantee you that if Cherry privately disliked Dixie, he would NEVER have hired her. He would have had no incentive whatsoever to do so. She was not a major "get" by the early 2000s and every other 60+ actress in town would have been clamoring for her DH role.
He hired her because he liked her, and he liked her because she was far from the hateful shrew some of you know-nothing, ignorant posters claim she was.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 15, 2018 12:00 AM |
Jackee was supposed to get the spot that went to Judith Ivey. Anthony was going to get married to Vanessa and his wife was going to have a share in the company. That's why they had her character introduced in such a big way. When things didn't work out, they rewrote the storyline and had Julia lose the business to BJ Poteet who gave it back to them as long as she could be a partner.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 15, 2018 12:06 AM |
While we're on the subject of DW, what was the cause of Stammerin' Judith Ivey's stammering? There's no question she's an excellent actress, but there are so many line flubs from her in the final, aired versions of her episodes. Why didn't they go back and do pickups to get clean takes on her lines? Were they shooting in front of a live audience and felt they didn't want to lose the "live" feel by adding inserts of her speaking her lines correctly? Or did they just not care on tape day and wanted to get home asap since it was the last season? Or is that just as good as it got, and what we see ARE the retakes?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 15, 2018 12:15 AM |
Team Jackee.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 15, 2018 12:31 AM |
I don't remember her having line flubs but maybe I blocked it out since that season was so bad.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 15, 2018 12:37 AM |
I remember the flubs and the stammering.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 15, 2018 12:41 AM |
R55 Reagan era repubs gave us the Trump led party of today. Face it, Dixie had more than 1 issue with the dems.
Both reagan & nixon urged donald trump to run for president.
nixon moved to NY & kept in touch with trump until he died in the 90s.
See 49:01 for most of it =
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 15, 2018 1:07 AM |
Jackee's mop stank, and I wasn't going to stand for it!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 15, 2018 1:12 AM |
Dixie and Delta were the best of friends, but Dixie betrayed Delta. She should’ve stayed out of it. Even though Delta and Dixie made up, Dixie was a two faced back stabbing cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 15, 2018 1:24 AM |
Jackée's always been a drunken cunt. She arranged to accept the Emmy in 1992 if the best actress winner wasn't present , and when Dixie lost, she sailed onstage and accepted the award and backstage she smirked victoriously as she passed the shocked Ms. Carter. Ms. Ross never received her Emmy; Jackée pawned it for booze and dope within weeks.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 15, 2018 1:54 AM |
[quote] I thought Dixie would have been an excellent Endora if it ever went to film.
"IF?"
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 15, 2018 2:10 AM |
I think he is drunk Nic at r80, he clearly meant "Aurora" from Terms of Endearment.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 15, 2018 2:11 AM |
R79 what fiction is this? Who is the Ms Ross you’re referring g to? Candace Bergen won.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 15, 2018 2:16 AM |
^Dixie Carter wasn’t even nominated.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 15, 2018 2:18 AM |
I don't see what was so awful about what Jackee said.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 15, 2018 2:29 AM |
[quote]And when she's vilified for being a Republican, remember that we're talking Reagan-era Republican, when the party was nowhere near as horrific as it is now.
Yes, they just ignored gay men with AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 15, 2018 2:40 AM |
I thought I read somewhere that Dixie contributed to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. I think the Thomasons had an influence on her.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 15, 2018 2:43 AM |
Dixie clearly wasn't antigay.
There really were people who, pre Reagan, were really just more fiscal conservatives.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 15, 2018 2:53 AM |
she don't say a dam thing, she scared to?
never dug her, she bad vibes, big fat old booga boo attitude, honey most of us aint big loud and obnoxious sterotypical like u. go way
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 15, 2018 2:59 AM |
saw dixie do Master Class in nyc.
she was awesome! shocked me, she was dam near as good as the thespian who originated it, zoe Caldwell, she was good, fab voice.
all I seen jack ayyyyyyy do is blibber blabber and mop da floor wid her big ole mouf
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 15, 2018 3:02 AM |
saw Jackee do a master cleanse on Celebrity Fit Club On VH1.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 15, 2018 3:05 AM |
I want to hear more about this Emmy pawning nonsense.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 15, 2018 3:21 AM |
who is this jackee hog?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 15, 2018 4:18 AM |
She was on a Celeb Wife Swap where she swapped with Traci Lord and Jackee's dude's flames can be seen from space. Her friends were a little bitchy to Traci because of the porn star shit but she seemed to come around and be cool. Traci's dude is hot and she's a little stay at home wifey who gets up to pack his lunch and calls him about what to make for dinner. Very suburban frau and loves it.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 15, 2018 4:28 AM |
How would you like to have two little blue eyed black chiidren?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 15, 2018 4:34 AM |
You have to watch Jackee on Hey Qween. She is great. She reveals a lot of interesting info. I'm a soap gay and she talks about Constance Ford on Another World.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | November 15, 2018 4:42 AM |
R96 that was a hilarious appearance - loved her there.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 15, 2018 4:47 AM |
You may work in Hollywood, R70, but you don’t know Marc Cherry.
I grew up with the guy - asshole. Funny, caustic, but an asshole.
I knew him back then and he claimed Dixie was a fucking bitch. The ONLY reason he hired her on DH was to lord his success over her, now that hers had come and gone.
He said so.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 15, 2018 5:18 AM |
R98, highly doubt R70 works in the "industry." Saying he works in "Hollywood" is a dead giveaway that he is full of it. If by working in "Hollywood" he means working at one of those gift shops on Hollywood Blvd, that might be believable.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 15, 2018 6:17 AM |
Jackée Harry is a gay ICON!
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 15, 2018 6:25 AM |
[quote]I'd forgotten Jackee was on Designing Women, part of a series of bitchy girlfriends for Anthony.
Vanessa (Olivia Brown of [italic]Miami Vice[/italic] fame), the one with the Tina Turner hair, was sweet but dumb.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 15, 2018 6:38 AM |
r67
You're right, I saw an interview with Jackee and she said, that there is no fued with Marla Gibbs. She said, they had long talked that through and were now friends again.
She said, when she was cast on 227, she was only supposed to be on for five episodes. She said that coming from Broadway, she saw the five episode shot as a chance to show what she could do. So she overplayed the role, making Saundra "larger than life" and overshadowing the Mary character, something she knew was wrong, but she figured that since she was only going to be on five episodes, it didn't matter.
Then when the character was re-written to be a regular she continued instead of toning it down, thus the tensions between her and Marla Gibbs. She said, Alaina Reed. who played Rose, was the stabilizer between them. Because Saundra was popular, the writers would have Mary say lines to Saunra, and Alaina would point out, that Mary doesn't like Saundra, Mary would say that to her friend, not Saundra. So have her say it to me and if you want Saundra for conflict, have another reason to bring her into the scene.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 15, 2018 6:47 AM |
[quote]While we're on the subject of DW, what was the cause of Stammerin' Judith Ivey's stammering? There's no question she's an excellent actress, but there are so many line flubs from her in the final, aired versions of her episodes.
I had never heard of her before she joined the cast, and she flubbed so much that I wondered where the hell they got her and why they couldn't find somebody better.
That whole last season was a shitshow in general, an example of which was the stupid episode where Mary Jo discovered the face of Elvis in a shovel in her garage. Julia basically became a cardboard-cutout version of herself, with Dixie shouting her lines most of the time ("Have we ALL comPLETEly LOST our MINDS?"). Alice Ghostley made the most of what she had to work with, bless her heart.
Oddly, David Steinberg directed most of the episodes that season, so you'd think they would have been better.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | November 15, 2018 6:53 AM |
I honestly don’t remember Judith Ivey flubbing her lines and I’ve watched the show in reruns for years! Can someone find a scene on YouTube? I need to see this.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 15, 2018 9:17 AM |
[quote] I honestly don’t remember Judith Ivey flubbing her lines
Yeah, I don't know why someone is going on about this. Never heard of it and don't remember, and I watched every episode.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | November 15, 2018 10:26 AM |
Re: politics of 30 years ago, there was much more nuance. Like someone upthread mentioned, you could be a fiscal conservative and that's why you were a Republican. Also, belonging to a political party didn't dictate your vote. There were people who were Republicans - like my parents - because of local government issues. They picked their party based on the town's First Selectman, Comptroller, Treasurer, etc. But then in National elections would often vote Democratic.
We've fallen into a trap with the two-party system of creating two groups of people: "Them" and "Us". We've created an environment where we don't let people think for themselves... if I take a position on a topic that doesn't align with the Democratic Party (I'm all for decreased spending/budget cuts, and reducing the size of the federal government to put more responsibility at the state/local government level), I'm immediately cast out as a "Rethug" or "Trumpster". Which is ironic, because Trump and most Republicans aren't doing a damn thing to bring the budget under control or reduce the size of the federal government.
Sorry... back to Jackee.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | November 15, 2018 12:40 PM |
what is this fat black pig known for???
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 15, 2018 1:26 PM |
[quote]When Faye Dunaway was getting ready to do her short lived sitcom It Had to Be You, she hung out on the Designing Women set for a week to learn the ropes of sitcom making. I would love to hear some stories from Annie Potts and Jan Hooks about what went on that week.
I'd never heard this before and visual I'm getting from it is HILARIOUS. There's some comedian who does a bit about Faye calling him for tips on how to play comedy right before she had an audition. His name escapes me right now, but I know someone here will remember. It seems like she just never got it, as if the whole concept of comedy was completely beyond her.
In any case, I wonder if this scenario influenced Jan's portrayal of Faye in the "Models Amalgamated" sketch she did for The Martin Short Show special. It was hilarious and so spot on.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 15, 2018 6:08 PM |
R 108, It was Michael McDonald from Mad TV. Sorry, no links.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 15, 2018 6:13 PM |
R108. Sorry about that.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 15, 2018 6:13 PM |
Thank you, R109! I found it on YouTube. DO THE LINES!!!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 15, 2018 6:18 PM |
Jackee was always a tacky clown. A fat tacky clown
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 15, 2018 6:22 PM |
I listened to the MacDonald bit and have a question for the Hollywood people here--
Is it normal for an actress/actor who is super famous to call minor actors they don't know for help with roles?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 15, 2018 6:31 PM |
I've known famous actors who did just that in both NYC and LA, R113, sometimes if only to have an outside eye and to have someone babysit them to make sure they do the necessary prep.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | November 15, 2018 6:38 PM |
R114, thanks for answering.
I always had this notion that Hollywood/acting was this cutthroat kind of place: it's nice to see that there's some camaraderie.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 15, 2018 6:41 PM |
I loved Judith Ivey on "The 5 Mrs Buchanans" and I saw what they were going for with her BJ character (someone who could stand up to Julia without looking ridiculous) and it should've worked, but the Friday night death slot was the undoing.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 15, 2018 8:29 PM |
Who would win in a fight? Julia Sugarbaker or Murphy Brown?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | November 15, 2018 8:33 PM |
jakee aint good enuf to kiss the dirty smegma from dixie's dick...
by Anonymous | reply 118 | November 16, 2018 1:42 PM |
I read that Dixie Carter would agree to do a liberal monologue in an episode only if she was allowed to sing in a future episode
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 16, 2018 2:21 PM |
[quote]When Faye Dunaway was getting ready to do her short lived sitcom It Had to Be You, she hung out on the Designing Women set for a week to learn the ropes of sitcom making.
THIS would have made a better sitcom than either show.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | November 16, 2018 2:28 PM |
R119 That is absolutely true.
When you have a voice like Dixie's, you have to bribe people to let you use it.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | November 16, 2018 2:29 PM |
[quote]She arranged to accept the Emmy in 1992 if the best actress winner wasn't present , and when Dixie lost, she sailed onstage and accepted the award and backstage she smirked victoriously as she passed the shocked Ms. Carter.
Atta girl!
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 16, 2018 4:24 PM |
Jackee was, is and ALWAYS will be trash.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 16, 2018 9:11 PM |
Dixie failed magnificently every time she rose to give one of magnificent Sugarbsker grande dame put downs.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | November 17, 2018 12:36 AM |
Faye also consulted with DL favorite Debra Winger who told her that her performance in Mommie Dearest was like "kabuki" theater and was impressed with it per Faye's autobiography.
She also sought acting counsel from Roseanne Arnold as well.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 17, 2018 12:44 AM |
[quote] Dixie SLAYED magnificently every time she rose to give one of those magnificent Sugarbaker grande dame put downs.
Fixed that for you.
Both your erroneous statement and your poor grammar.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 17, 2018 12:53 AM |
R126 is Dixie from the grave. Still deluded in hell.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | November 17, 2018 6:26 AM |
R127 must be Jackee's agent. Not much to do, and as pressed as the day is long.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 18, 2018 12:46 AM |
I always thought Jackee was a doofusy one note actor but she made me bust a gut laughing in Fun with Dick and Jane.
Murphy would clean Julia’s clock. Alice was one of the funniest things about DW.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | November 18, 2018 3:15 AM |
I knew Dixie. She was the iron fist in the velvet glove. Anything warm and fuzzy was purely superficial. The real her was hard and cold. Not that she was a bad person. She is the first person you would want on your team in a fight, and she could be incredibly generous, particularly if she thought you were beneath her. I am sure the issue with Delta was" Friends are Friends"/ "Money is Money". I imagine it wasn't so much that Dixie didn't take Delta's side as it was that Dixie did not understand why she was involved in the first place. She hated excess, which was probably why she and Alice Ghostly did not get along. I never met Alice Ghostly; so, I have no idea how much of her personality was an act, but one can see that she got under Dixie's skin and that was a great deal of the humor. Note: she also kind of homophobic in reality. In theory, she was an ally; in reality she disliked any gay man who did not act like a straight man. She hated any hint of femininity in a man.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | November 18, 2018 10:53 AM |
[quote]n reality she disliked any gay man who did not act like a straight man. She hated any hint of femininity in a man.
So you're saying Dixie was a typical gay male?
by Anonymous | reply 131 | November 18, 2018 11:46 AM |
Delta's bipolar mental illness became an increasingly untenable problem on the "Designing Women" set. She would report late, sometime not at all, and scenes and whole episodes would have to be rewritten at the last second to accommodate her. Often, Delta was a sobbing mess.
Dixie tried to soothe her, even climbing into bed with Delta to hold her and reassure her that everything would be a all right.
Learning and blocking entirely new scripts hours before filing them is incredibly stressful for actors, not to mention costly for the crew. When the Thomasons began to balk, Delta and Gerald McRaney went to the press and painted them as tyrants. That's when the real feud began, and Dixie - exhausted from the endless drama, and understandably wanting to maintain her meal ticket, sided with the Thomasons.
Of course, as we all know, Dixie and Delta buried the hatchet several years later. Delta was inconsolable at Dixie's funeral.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 18, 2018 3:54 PM |
You gotta love Jackie. She always spills the tea. I remember her saying she had a feud with the late Helen Martin who played Pearl on 227.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 19, 2018 6:52 AM |
I need more details
by Anonymous | reply 135 | January 27, 2020 12:15 AM |
Datalounge advertises itself as a gay gossip site, r3: not as a site for gossip except people r3 likes, because they are off limits.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | January 27, 2020 12:26 AM |
Jackee's more recent comments:
[quote] Before my #DesigningWomen plot line was scrapped, I was so looking forward to working with Annie Potts! She was pregnant when I filmed my episode so we never had the chance to film together, but drink together we have!
[quote] My character was to marry Anthony and invest in Sugarbaker’s.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | January 27, 2020 12:44 AM |
I wonder why Dixie wasn't cast in Steel Magnolias?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | January 27, 2020 1:10 AM |
Any news on the limited series DW reboot happening with Delta, Annie and Jean?
Should be fun with half the original cast dead.
Will Julia or Judith pop in?
by Anonymous | reply 139 | January 27, 2020 1:26 AM |
Fuck, no.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | January 27, 2020 1:36 AM |
[quote] I wonder why Dixie wasn't cast in Steel Magnolias?
They didn't want someone who was quite so flamboyant in her acting.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | January 27, 2020 1:39 AM |
"remember that we're talking Reagan-era Republican, when the party was nowhere near as horrific as it is now."
Yeah, they weren't putting babies in cages, they were just letting thousands of gay men die.
It was morning in America for straight white people but death and mourning in America for the rest of us.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | January 27, 2020 1:51 AM |
Jackee is hilarious
by Anonymous | reply 143 | January 27, 2020 2:04 AM |
To be fair, Jackee did not say they didn't get along. She said they didn't get a long. The question is, a long what?
by Anonymous | reply 144 | January 27, 2020 2:53 AM |
Too bad.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | June 8, 2021 9:16 PM |
I worked with Julia and Hal Holbrook at a benefit a few years before she died. I wouldn't say she was a cunt, but she was pretty cold. It was clear she felt the gig was beneath her. She also set off the fire alarm with her hairspray. Hal was charming, though.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | June 8, 2021 9:45 PM |
[quote]Strangely enough, I was at brunch in LA this weekend and was talking about designing women. The guy at the next table worked as a designer on the show and said that Dixie was indeed awful to work for and with.
Who knew Denny's had a brunch.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | June 8, 2021 9:47 PM |
A take-off on one of Julia Sugarbaker monologues. The actress does a great job!
by Anonymous | reply 149 | June 9, 2021 1:40 AM |
R149 that was funny but also strange. Do you think Kyle Mooney ever gets tired of people coming up to him and asking why he looks like that.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | February 12, 2022 4:11 AM |
Why do you people on these message boards argue about and attack and defend these people like they're your relatives when you DON'T EVEN KNOW THEM? Why do you care if Jackee didn't get along with Dixie? By the way, two more stupid names for grown women you'll never find.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | February 12, 2022 7:36 AM |
The original cast from the first few seasons was the best. As the seasons dragged on and casts changed, Julia Duffy was very iffy, with occasional funny lines, but as someone said above, often seemed one-dimensionally mean. Judith Ivey was abysmal and completely unwatchable. (Jan Hooks was ok, but the show was a caricature of itself by that point). Alice Ghostley stole many of the scenes she was in. Her scene as the interviewer in the senior segment was priceless. Annie Potts was not particularly funny in her role, but a good foil for the other characters - a little softer, a little gentler. Jackie Harry was a little over the top in her brief role as Antony's GF. I can't see her ever having become anything more than an occasional walk-on, because she didn't really fit the set up of the show in which the main characters are all women who have become involved in the design business somewhat accidentally.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | February 12, 2022 9:14 AM |