🎬 PSA for a movie you maybe haven't seen—a cult film from 2000.

#SordidLives, written and directed by #DelShores, is "A Black Comedy About White Trash!"

#LeslieJordan #OliviaNewtonJohn #BeauBridges and #DeltaBurke are a few names you'll recognize maybe. Every performance is perfect, and the writing is delicious!

📽️ Trailer Plays Within This Post

#Movies #LGBTQ+ #Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwBV8LYFzMg

Designing Women Cast Photo.
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Favorite quote?
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"Marjorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12,000 people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one-half minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation, as flames illuminated her tear-stained face! And that, Marjorie⁠—just so you will know and your children will someday know⁠—is the night that the lights went out in Georgia!"
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#DixieCarter #AnniePotts #DeltaBurke #JeanSmart #designingwomen #tvshow #television #80stv #80sTVShow #80stvseries

🎬 "Sordid Lives" is a "Black #Comedy About White Trash!"

#LeslieJordan plays "Brother Boy" a #gay middle-aged man and longtime resident of a psychiatric hospital his family has exiled him to.

The movie (2000) also stars #DeltaBurke #OliviaNewtonJohn #BeauBridges and #BonnieBedelia.

#BethGrant as "Sissy Hickey" deserves special mention:

"Good Lawd Latrelle. Don't you know better than to sneak up on someone when they're tawkin' to a corpse?" 😂

#movies #LGBTQ+

https://youtu.be/TwBV8LYFzMg

33 years ago today:
Designing Women
S4E23: Foreign Affairs
When her maid Consuela is threatened with deportation, Suzanne puts Anthony in a dress and pays him to impersonate the terrified woman. But he performs too well, awakening romantic interest in the Immigration and Naturalization Service examiner.
Airdate: 1990-04-03
https://themoviedb.org/tv/712/season/4/episode/23
#DesigningWomen #DeltaBurke #DixieCarter #CBS #tvshows

On this date in 1988, the American sitcom, Designing Women aired the episode, "Oh, Brother" on the CBS network.

#TV #1980s #Nostagia
#DesigningWomen
#DeltaBurke #JeanSmart
#DixieCarter #AnniePotts
#JuliaDuffy #MeshachTaylor
#JanHooks #JudithIvey

January 18, 1988 S2E15 "Oh, Brother"
Julia and Suzanne's half brother, Clayton, who has suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, comes to visit.