"Designing Women" creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason (seated), with series stars Dixie Carter (from left) Jean Smart and Annie Potts. Bloodworth Thomason was recently awarded the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement from the Writers's Guild of America West in Los Angeles.
(Special do the Democrat-Gazette/Linda Bloodworth Thomason)
There was a time when Linda Bloodworth-Thomason planned on being a newspaper columnist. Among the jobs the "Designing Women" creator held before her television writing career took off was as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, for which she covered the trial of Charles Manson.
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