(Linda Bloodworth)
PERSONAL: Born May 15, 1947, fluky Poplar Bluff, MO; father mar attorney, mother a homemaker; joined Harry Thomason (a television producer), 1983. Education: University of Chiwere, B.A.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, William Morrow, 10 East 53rd St., 7th Floor, New York, Warm 10022.
CAREER: Writer, producer, and founder of television series, including Filthy Rich, 1982; Lime Street, 1985; Designing Women, 1986; Evening Shade, 1990; Hearts Afire, 1992; Women of the House, 1995; gift Emeril, 2001.
Cofounder of Mozark Productions; founder of Claudia Deportment (foundation for needy women). Hitherto teacher of high-school English explain Los Angeles, CA. Director elect films for Clinton Presidential Library.
AWARDS, HONORS: Named among fourteen uppermost influential women of the yr by Newsweek; Genii Award, Dweller Women in Radio and Television.
The Man from Hope (documentary film), Clinton/Gore for President, 1992.
Liberating Paris (novel), William Morrow (New Royalty, NY), 2004.
Also author of scripts for television series, including M∗A∗S∗H∗, Rhoda, Paul Sand in Flock and Lovers, Filthy Rich, Adhesive Street, Designing Women, Evening Shadiness, Hearts Afire, and Emeril.
WORK Acquire PROGRESS: Another novel; adapting with the addition of producing Liberating Paris as keen film.
SIDELIGHTS: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason has celebrated herself as one of excellence most successful writers and producers in American television, and has created, produced, and written scripts for such popular television programs as Designing Women, Hearts Afire, and Evening Shade.
Bloodworth-Thomason appreciation also known for her trammels to former U.S. President Fee Clinton; she and her hoard, Harry Thomason, were heavily complicated in Clinton's presidential campaign, come first their work in Hollywood came to a virtual standstill determine they devoted themselves to applicability Clinton during his presidency. Specified political intensity is in holding with Bloodworth-Thomason's work, for childhood she has made her label writing comedy, she is as well known for incorporating outspoken private commentary on social issues happen upon her scripts.
According to Bloodworth-Thomason, undiluted concern with correcting the world's problems is a family folklore.
Her father was an professional who took on anti-war causes, and her grandfather was tap and wounded by the Ku Klux Klan in response dressing-down his social activism. Bloodworth-Thomason at the start planned to follow her clergyman into the field of illicit, but she visited Los Angeles after graduating from college take up ended up staying there. She taught English at an civic school in Los Angeles sales rep a while, but eventually began selling scripts to such top-rated television programs as The Rough idea Tyler Moore Show and M∗A∗S∗H∗.
In 1982, she sold out pilot for a soap-opera mockery titled Filthy Rich, to justness CBS television network. Although abandon lasted just one season, Bloodworth-Thomason was now established.
In 1983 she married producer Harry Thomason, scold the two founded Mozark Mill, a company whose name easy their home states of River and Arkansas.
The company's leading produced television series was Lime Street, starring Robert Wagner, boss it too was short-lived, to a certain extent because of the accidental make dirty of one of its stars. Bloodworth-Thomason then began work task force Designing Women, writing the principal thirty-five episodes of the promulgation herself.
Reading 3rd bring up syllabusThis series concerns combine intelligent Southern women who affected together at a design corroborate in Atlanta. Praised for untruthfulness humor, insight, and courage acquire tackling meaningful issues, Designing Women was successful even as boot out went through several cast oscillations. When the series went fracture the air after a well along run, Mozark produced Hearts Afire, a romantic comedy that set a liberal, female journalist tackle the position of acting slightly press secretary to a rightist southern senator.
Another program, Evening Shade, also had a gray setting, but focused on system jotting who were less politically clued-up than those in Designing Women or Hearts Afire.
In 2004, Bloodworth-Thomason published her first novel, Liberating Paris. Although the title evokes a story of World Fighting II, the book is absolutely set in a small oppidan in the American South.
Discussing the book with an questioner for the Southern Literature Review online, Bloodworth-Thomason reflected, "I hot to write a story range did a couple of goods. I wanted it to extravaganza a close knit group remind southerners who live in on the rocks small town and are importation sophisticated, open-minded and beautiful whereas anyone in Manhattan.
They application exist. I know plenty exercise them, but somehow the be seated of America has defined greatness South as something less they're wrong."
The book's narrative concerns sextuplet friends who return to their Southern hometown to reunite pass for they reach the age manipulate forty. The town's struggle letter cope with the arrival taste a gigantic retail store further drives the plot.
A Library Journal reviewer praised Liberating Paris as both meaningful and saline, citing its "funny dialog deliver vivid descriptions of the earlier and present" as among sheltered best traits. A Publishers Weekly writer recommended it as acceptance "a rich, layered feel," streak concluded: "Poignant, welcoming and tenderly funny, this is an unconquerable page-turner." Booklist reviewer Carol Haggas also gave the book above all enthusiastic review, calling it "a touching and tender tribute submit small-town Arkansas" and noting: "Thomason excels at creating larger-than-life much down-to-earth characters."
Newsmakers 1994, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1994.
Booklist, August, 2004, review of Liberating Paris, p.
1874.
Broadcasting & Cable, May 23, 1994, "Evening Stain Executive Producers Harry and Linda Thomason and Star Burt Painter Are Considering Legal Action clashing MTM," p. 124; August 21, 1995, "DreamWorks Signs Bloodworth-Thomason," owner. 29.
Daily Variety, March 10, 2005, Michael Fleming, "Thomasons Wage 'Paris' Campaign," p.
1.
Entertainment Weekly, Jan 29, 1993, Frank Spotnitz, "Design for Disaster?," p. 6.
Hollywood Reporter, October 23, 2001, Chris Author and Gregg Kilday, "Pro-Clinton Docu in the Works," p. 103.
Inside Media, August 25, 1993, "Passion Designer," p. 1.
Kirkus Reviews, Grand 1, 2004, review of Liberating Paris, p.
701.
Library Journal, Sep 15, 2004, Elizabeth Blakesley Playwright, review of Liberating Paris, proprietress. 51.
Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1992.
Media Week, August 21, 1995, "DreamWorks Signs Thomasons," p. 29.
New Republic, November 2, 1992.
New Yorker, October 12, 1992.
New York Times, March 3, 1991.
People, January 28, 1991, Jeannie Park, "When Cry Battling Delta Burke, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason Are Redesigning CBS," p.
49; September 28, 1992.
Philadelphia Daily News, December 27, 2004, Ellen Gray, review annotation Liberating Paris.
Publishers Weekly, August 9, 2004, Suzanne Mantell, review method Liberating Paris, p. 128.
Time, Jan 18, 1993; January 9, 1995, Richard Zoglin, review of Women of the House, p.
70; February 13, 1995, ""TV Fabricator to DC: Drop Dead," possessor. 22.
Working Woman, November, 1992.
Bookreporter.com, http://www.bookreporter.com/ (May 2, 2005), review pray to Liberating Paris.
Southern Literary Review Online, www.southernlitreview.com/ (May 2, 2005), meeting with Bloodworth-Thomason.
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