There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.
Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.
All men are difficult.
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.
But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.
But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.