Actress Dixie Carter, 70, Suddenly Passes Away

[snoopy]

Wow. That she was a conservative playing Julia Sugarbaker is impressive. Totally felt she was real in that character. Finding out Bea Arthur was a conservative while playing Maude would only be more shocking.

[shan]

Finding out Bea Arthur was a conservative while playing Maude would only be more shocking.

I don't think you'll find that, at least from the interviews I've seen.

[cem]

I don't think you'll find that, at least from the interviews I've seen.

Bea Arthur is about as liberal as you can get in Hollywood. Outside of television was in Mame, two of the most liberal leads ever in a broadway show (which is saying alot).

[milanessa]

Wow. That she was a conservative playing Julia Sugarbaker is impressive.

What was so liberal about the Julia Sugarbaker character? I probably didn't see every episode but...

[Rex]

Wow. That she was a conservative playing Julia Sugarbaker is impressive. Totally felt she was real in that character. Finding out Bea Arthur was a conservative while playing Maude would only be more shocking.

Very liberal and very feminist too.

I lurved the episode where she battled the newsstand owner that kept selling those pornographic magazines - she kept running his stand over with her car

[LilJen]

Personification of "sassy" in the best way. RIP and condolences to her husband and family.

[shan]

Very liberal and very feminist too.

Oh yes, remember the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings episode?

I lurved the episode where she battled the newsstand owner that kept selling those pornographic magazines - she kept running his stand over with her car

That was a great one!

[Rex]

Oh yes, remember the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings episode?

That was a great one!

Oh yeah. Like I said, some of the episodes were hysterical. The Clarence Thomas episode was somewhat preachy, but Dixie made a good Joan Crawford when she and Mary Jo were doing the "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" play in the episode.

[AYS]

OMG! I didn't realize she was sick either and I'd been seeing her as of late in an ad for some type of muscular disease although I don't think she was suffering from it herself.

RIP Dixie and my condolences go out to Hal and the rest of her family.

My biggest memory of Dixie was from Designing Women even though she has done much more than that.

I just saw her on some obscure commercial a couple of days ago, maybe this was it, and was thinking how thin she looked. RIP. I'm very sorry to hear it, that is too young to go.

[Rex]

OMG! I didn't realize she was sick either and I'd been seeing her as of late in an ad for some type of muscular disease although I don't think she was suffering from it herself.

RIP Dixie and my condolences go out to Hal and the rest of her family.

My biggest memory of Dixie was from Designing Women even though she has done much more than that.

Supposedly she was a health nut who injected herself with HGH, or so I've been told.

[Fergus]

She was brilliant as Maria Callas in McNally's "Master Class".

[Rex]

I just saw her on some obscure commercial a couple of days ago, maybe this was it, and was thinking how thin she looked. RIP. I'm very sorry to hear it, that is too young to go.

CNN is reporting that it was endometrial cancer that killed her...

[MOIJTO]

A wonderful actress and person!

[Civic]

Thanks to her portrayal of Brandy Henderson on "The Edge of Night" during the 1970s, I wanted to be a district attorney when I was a teenager. RIP.

[skatesindreams]

That's where I first remember seeing her, as well.
She also appeared with Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival.

[Latte]

I heard on tv today that she died of cancer.

[Rex]

I heard on tv today that she died of cancer.

I already mentioned that.

CNN is reporting that it was endometrial cancer that killed her...