Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: May 30, 2000
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• ASIN: B00004STQW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,952 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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"They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" was the title of a Designing Women episode that took on society's fixation with pencil-thin women. That's also the episode of the hit 1980s TV series that helped Delta Burke reclaim the dignity the television industry stole. A chatty and likable full-bodied Burke recounts her days in Hollywood, where the Southern belle spent most of her time trying to fit the skinny actress stereotype before giving up. Plenty of home movies show an "uncomplicated, nurturing childhood" that led the future Miss Florida 1974 to a "crown crazy" existence. Meshach Taylor, a Designing Women costar, recalls "a shy country girl" as well as her romance with actor Gerald McRaney, "who wooed her like Clark Gable." (McRaney, now Burke's husband, also remembers how he was swept away.) Designing woman Jean Smart recounts Burke's feud with the show's creator, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, and the end of Burke's friendship with Dixie Carter, another costar. Snippets from her TV shows are interspersed with Burke's upbeat patter, complete with an inevitable happy ending as an authentic designing woman who creates clothes in "real sizes for real women." --Valerie J. Nelson