Word: bloodworth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...
...sees to it that someone specific is assigned to carry out the task. Before the convention, Bill asked Hillary to firm up the list of speakers. She quizzed various party officials in her prosecutorial style, wanting to hear good arguments to justify every choice. Says Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a Hollywood producer and friend of Hillary's: "She's very savvy about people. She's very savvy about what makes ((Bill)) look good. And she's very savvy about the people who make him look good...
Murphy Brown, along with the stellar performance of new Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
...closest thing TV has to an advocacy producer is Linda Bloodworth- Thomason , creator of three current network shows: Designing Women, Evening Shade and the upcoming Hearts Afire. She and her husband Harry Thomason are Clinton friends and supporters (and part-time residents of Little Rock) who produced the biographical film that introduced the candidate at the Democratic Convention. "So-called serious newspeople miss the powerful potential of the entertainment forum as a means of influencing people's lives in a positive way," she says. "I have my own column on TV, and I take it as seriously as does Mike...
While not the life of a party, Hillary tends to get into the spirit of an evening. She's the one to "try the new meal -- hippopotamus stew -- or order the blue drink," says television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Most socializing is done at home, in the kitchen and breakfast room and around the piano. (All three Clintons play the instrument, says Hillary, "but none of us is what you'd call good.") They play Pictionary, Scrabble and a cutthroat card game called Hungarian Rummy...