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...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...
...energy Democrats usually expend fighting with one another went into a big-budget Hollywood production, complete with filmed biographies by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...
...they seem to have a lock on the best time periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth-Thomason's Evening Shade. Over at ABC, Tom Arnold's new sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show was surprisingly left off the fall schedule. But it has been promised a midseason spot, in the time period following -- what else? -- Mrs. Arnold's hit show, Roseanne...
...based organization devoted to studying bereavement, as well as the Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal, the three-day symposium covered everything from obituaries to the role of "Media as Murderer." "The press has been covering crime and death for centuries," says Texas Christian University journalism professor Tommy Thomason, "but we are just beginning to think about how we cover...