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...first television role, playing a reluctantcross-dresser in the sitcom "Bosom Buddies," addsspecial irony to the Pudding honor. Show ProducerMark R. Roybal '95 said the part was "primematerial for the roast...
Women of the House, the couple's new sitcom that debuts this week on CBS, stars Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker, the character she played on Designing Women. Suzanne has come to Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...
...Thomasons' status as Washington insiders has not helped them unlearn years of bad sitcom habits. In one episode Suzanne is invited to spend the night in the White House. She gets so excited that she jumps up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom and breaks it. To repair the damage, her staff sneaks into the White House carrying a new footboard disguised as a huge painting of a naked man. By the time Jamie Farr (Corporal Max Klinger from M*A*S*H) shows up in a dress, you just want to send these tan, happy people...
Television: A sitcom set in Washington stars Delta Burke...
...studio's first offer wasn't quite magic: a TV sitcom based on the movie Turner & Hootch, in which Allen would co-star with a dog. Allen turned that down, along with two other proposals. Then he came up with his own idea: a series about the host of a TV handyman show. Disney teamed him with producer Matt Williams (the former producer of Roseanne), who added three kids to the mix and helped turn Home Improvement into TV's biggest family-show hit of the '90s. Allen's first movie went through a similar Disneyfication. The original script...