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Mary Jo's all that's my wife...

charlene’s jaw is on the FLOOR

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JEAN SMART as Charlene Frazier-Stillfield in 'Designing Women' (1986-1993)

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“I loved that role. I have to say, I know people don’t see me that way, particularly, but I often feel I’m more like that character than I’m some of the other characters I’ve played.” - Jean Smart

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Love that they all thought they were in a lesbian bar. Mary Jo desperately grabbing Julia's arm asking her to pretend to her girlfriend when a woman approached her. It's so ridiculous how much those two are meant to be together.

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Designing Women Season 5 Episode 11:

Julia: What’d y’all think of the game? I was surprised that kicker missed that easy field goal.

Anthony: Well, I don’t know why you would say that after being in the men’s room, I’d think you’d know some of us don’t have very good aim.

Julia and Charlene (in unison): Anthony!

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One more thing:

The Doylist explanation is likely that LBT was just doing Dixie Carter and Delta Burke’s dynamic from Filthy Rich again and then that petered out because it doesn’t work for Designing Women’s less broad comedy style and more familial dynamic. Sure, they could’ve kept Suzanne being slutty without Julia being straight up mean to her, but it’s my impression that Delta Burke can only play slutty if she’s also catty, so to really achieve the desired effect of them all being friends, they had to dial back that part of the character to play to Delta Burke’s rather limited strengths as an actress (just my theory and no shade to Delta Burke. I love her and what she does well she does excellently but like Julia says, “She does baton because she doesn’t sing” and I’ve watched her short-lived ‘90s country singer sitcom and her singing is very… utilitarian. So what she does not as well she does mediocrely, which is fine, but the writers wrote material that was super funny and that she delivered perfectly that just so happened to not be the within the parameters of the original concept of the character).

🎶Deborah Allen Baby, I Lied🎶 And another thing:

Suzanne is also noticeably more conventionally intelligent in the first couple seasons, throwing out one-liners like, “I see you’ve had another altercation with the public at large,” and knowing facts about AIDS and in the pilot countering Julia’s barbs with bland condescension, like she’s just so above it all. And by the end of season four, she and Charlene are the “dumb busty girls” together (even though Charlene’s characterization never actually changes and she’s never actually written as dumb but Julia and Mary Jo perceive her as less intelligent pretty suddenly and nonsensically, imo).

(There’s no way in the universe Charlene Frazier-Stillfield, notary public, would reasonably lose a trivia game: LBT, I dare you to show us the questions we didn’t see in that Jeopardy game because it had to have been weighted heavily in stuff she’d never been exposed to [somehow?] because this is a woman who has cultivated friendships with at least two billionaires and one president of the United States, knows All the capitals of the world, is studying for her real estate license, remembers detailed plots of 40-year-old movies, reads scientific articles as well as tabloids and a lot of different genres of books, book keeps and files records and updates everyone’s schedules meticulously, and can be fascinated by absolutely anything. But this is a rabbit hole for another day.)

I don’t really have a good Watsonion or Doylist interpretation for either Suzanne’s slow slide to stupidity (with a few wonderful moments of lucidity) or Julia and Mary Jo’s erroneous and frankly out of character assertions about Charlene (they both comment early and often about Charlene’s efficiency and competence and wide breadth of knowledge) except that maybe LBT wanted to shame them and get rid of them.

The way I justify Suzanne’s whole deal in the pilot is that she is really going through it. There is something happening regarding her mental health—maybe she’s depressed because of her most recent divorce. Or she’s still grieving her brother-in-law’s death. Maybe they were close because he was a safe man who didn’t want to have sex with her, who was nice to her, whom she never had to flirt with but could if she wanted to just for the fun of it with no expectations.

Further, she’s not feeling like she’s fitting in at Sugarbakers’ because Mary Jo and Charlene are long-standing best friends and Hayden’s death hit Julia really hard and she’s empty-nesting and she’s kind of taking it out on Suzanne.

So Suzanne’s like… fuck it this is my sexpot era. There are (I’m being generous here) maybe four times through the run of the show that she expresses anything like genuine attraction to men, and the other instances are markedly different than how she implies she and Ted have a lot of sex that she enjoys. For example, the time she and Charlene are into that poster guy. It’s very “he’s so dreamy” school girl crush, and she seems to enjoy the camaraderie of gushing about him with Charlene more than the actual looks of him, which she actually says nothing about.

Yes, she’s seen flirting with men but it’s always very polite and appropriate, no real innuendo except a little with Dash Goff and Jack Dent, both of whom she was married to.

So that pilot and a few references and comments sprinkled throughout season one and two where everyone is working under the assumption that she’s slutty is just so jarring because she just demonstrably is not. Even in the pilot when Mary Jo remarks that Suzanne must’ve been engaged to a lot of men and Julia counters that yes and she’s married them all. Not slut behavior. And then! In the episode about Julia’s son’s girlfriend, Mary Jo says her son heard from a girl in his kindergarten class that if you see somebody naked you have to marry them, and Suzanne says that’s always been her policy! This is early in season one! She’s only been married three times so if she’s having sex with all these men she runs around with, it’s all clothes-on and how likely is that?

Anyway, her whole demeanor is different in the pilot—overtly sexy rather than just attractive and vain and harmlessly flirtatious. Everybody is just a tick off from later, more fully formed characterizations, but she’s the most different and my retcon head canon for it is that she was in a bad place emotionally and not really acting like herself.

I’ve mentioned this in a tag rant before, but one explanation could be that she’s just recently moved back to Atlanta from wherever she was living with husband #3 J. Benton Stonecipher and throwing herself back into Atlanta society to feel normal again and overdoes it and gets a reputation for a while and just kind of goes with it until she gets back to being comfortable with everybody and herself again, especially after becoming better friends with Mary Jo and Charlene (and setting them up with men they really like!).

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I don’t know about Laurie Blake Watchmen. But I am a lesbian, and I do know Charlene Frazier-Stillfield Designing Women and Samantha Who’s mom. I think we can agree Jean Smart=hot.

AGREED BABY!!! I am shook.....Watchmen is a new show on HBO & Jean Smart plays Laurie. It's based on some comic shit I had never heard of before...and ya know what? I didn't need to hear about it to know that she's HOT

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Well Julia of course...

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I, my wife and children mourn the passing of a great a friend. In June of ‘87 within 78 hours I was best man at his wedding and he became a godfather of my 1st child. Smart is nominated for Emmy Awards for her performances Hacks, about a veteran comic working with a Gen-Z comedy writer, and the crime drama Mare Of Easttown.

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The 71-year-old was married to Emmy-winning actress Jean Smart and suffered from a. Late into the shoot for Mare of Easttown, the grim HBO limited series in which Smart plays Helen, a plain-spoken great-grandmother with a Fruit Ninja. "He was Jesus and I was Judas," Mantegna tweeted. "Beginning a friendship of 50 yrs. Richard Gilliland, an actor known for roles in 'Designing Women' and ' Airplane II: The Sequel ,' has died. Jean Smart is an American actress and the mother of two children, Connor Douglas Gilliland and Forrest Kathleen Gilliland. It is said that her parents, Kay and Douglas Smart, were teachers and housewives. The second child of her parents’ four children, Jean Smart was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2018 she will celebrate her 67th birthday. She studied at Ballard High School in Seattle and graduated in 1969. Born on September 13, 1951, in Seattle, Washington, Smart was raised by her parents Kay Smart and Douglas Alexander Smart. "Criminal Minds" star Joe Mantegna shared a throwback picture of himself and Gilliland, who starred together in the Goodman School of Drama's 1972 production of "Godspell." The actress was born Jean Elizabeth Smart on September 13, 1951. Smart Reportedly Has 4 Million Net Worth. The actress is married to Richard Gilliland, her starsign is Virgo and she is now 70 years of age. She made her 185 million dollar fortune with Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, A Royal Romance, Life As We Know It. "Rest peacefully dearest Richard," Potts captioned a picture of her, Gilliland and Smart on set. On 13-9-1951 Jean Smart (nickname: Jean) was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. In an Instagram tribute Thursday, Potts asked her late "Designing Women" co-star to "please give Dixie and Meshach a squeeze for me," referring to co-stars Dixie Carter, who died in 2010, and Meshach Taylor, who died in 2014. More: Jessica Walter, 'Arrested Development,' 'Archer' star, dead at 80 In the LGBTQ world, certainly I have friends and family, but I don't have to have the direct experience in order to feel the compassion that I truly feel for acceptance and equality in all areas.His other acting credits include "Operation Petticoat," "Just Our Luck," "McMIllan & Wife" and "Heartland," in addition to guest appearances on "Criminal Minds," "Dexter," "Scandal," "Thirtysomething" and "Desperate Housewives." and advocated for the rights of children. She went on explaining her support for the community, "You don't have to have your own experience in order to feel compassion and the need for justice and equality. With loads of versatility and a high coolness quotient, Jean Smarts fan base. " make-up artist was gay, the playwright that she did a play with was a great friend of our family who was gay," she said. In a 2019 interview with Pride Source, Jamie also talked about growing up comfortable around gay people thanks to her Hollywood parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

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(from a trans teacher)." Later in 2020, she signed on to direct and star in a TV movie about GLAAD Media Institute alum Sara Cunningham. Smarts recent career surge could be traced back to her role as Floyd Gerhardt in the black comedy crime-drama series Fargo (2016), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nominations for. In 2017, she shared a Huffington Post article on Twitter which was titled "Dear Trans Kids. However, the veteran actress stopped the crowd in its standing tracks with her moving acceptance speech for Best. Smart was later cast in a leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on. Jean Smart scored the first standing ovation of the night at the 2021 Emmy Awards. After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest, she appeared on Broadway in 1981 as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf. Jamie has been showing her support for trans community. Jean Elizabeth Smart is an American actress. "Not yet, but I do hope to," so she says. The " Halloween" star says she currently has no grandchildren, but she is looking forward to the day she becomes a grandparent.

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Woman who’s only ever watched Designing Women (1986-1993) reading Rebecca: Wow, the Second Mrs. De Winter is really giving off Charlene Frazier Stillfield vibes

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Smart was later cast in a leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest, she appeared on Broadway in 1981 as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf. “Our favorite thing in the world,” she says, “is to make each other laugh, and make other people laugh.Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. And her Hacks co-star Einbinder always gets her going. And as the three of them are finding their new normal as a family, Smart is finding new ways to laugh.

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I mean, I’m gonna have my children, obviously, but they have their own lives.” Her older son, Connor, is interested in film and TV sound editing, her younger just got accepted to a great high school. “I just assumed we would grow old together, and now I feel like I’m just going to grow old alone. Losing her husband “was so shocking on so many levels,” she says. “A million years ago, I had two separate psychics tell me I was gonna live to be 98, so I’ve decided I’m going to live to 98. “What are you, nuts?” She says old age was foretold to her, sort of.

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So now that she’s hitting her professional prime, what else is good about being 70? “Ha ha! Nothing!” She cackles. “I felt like the universe was rewarding me for being true to myself.”

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About 24 hours later, she was asked to audition for the juicy role of a crime matriarch in the second season of Fargo, the gritty FX TV series inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s hit 1996 movie. So after much deliberation, she decided to pull out. The deal put her on hold for over a year and a half, and production still hadn't begun. “I wasn’t getting offered things or auditions.” She took on a role she wasn't crazy about for a comedy pilot. “Then I went through a little dry spell,” she says. The two were married for 34 years, until Gilliland passed away suddenly last March.įollowing five successful seasons on Designing Women, Smart made the most of the next two decades, winning Emmys for a recurring guest role on Frasier and as a regular on Samantha Who? and nabbing Emmy nominations for her role on 24. So the producers said, ‘Will you come back whenever there’s a critic here? You got the audience going!’” She and Gilliland wed in 1987, at her co-star Dixie Carter’s rose garden in Hollywood. It was not a great play, but I’m a good laugher. “He would riff on something to the point where I was gasping for air, you know? He had that kind of mind.” She asked him for help with a crossword puzzle he invited her to see a play he was doing, “and I went to see it three times. Smart met her husband, actor Richard Gilliland, when he played Potts’ character’s boyfriend on the show. She recalls how she and her co-stars ( Dixie Carter, Delta Burke and Annie Potts) “would get weird questions from reporters, like, ‘Oh boy, what’s it like with four women on a set together?’ I finally said to one guy, ‘Would you ask the guys on Barney Miller that question?’” “There really wasn’t a show like that,” Smart says of the series about strong Southern belles running their own interior design firm. She thrived in the spotlight, performing in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, regional theater and on Broadway, then was off to Hollywood, where she secured guest spots and short-lived series roles-until she broke out playing sweet-but-scattered Charlene Frazier from 1986 to 1991 on the hit sitcom Designing Women. But drawn to the stage during her senior year of high school, she decided to major in drama at the University of Washington. Smart initially saw herself pursuing a service career, perhaps in nursing, social work or veterinary medicine. Her mother, Kathleen, was a homemaker and a seamstress who would make beautiful clothes for her kids her father, Douglas, worked as a high school history teacher and took on extra jobs selling encyclopedias door-to-door, painting houses and teaching night school. Her parents, who served in World War II, were both funny and taught her a strong work ethic.

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