CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

Ahead of her Hollywood Walk of Fame honor, icon Jean Smart looked back at some of her incredible roles — including the one that put her on the map globally. In 1985, she joined CBS’ “Designing Women” as Charlene Frazier Stillfield, a role she held for five seasons.

The sitcom earned 18 Emmy nominations and catapulted Smart’s career — and she completely knows why.

“I would kill to play a part like that again — someone who’s kind of sweet and gullible. It’s funny, in some ways I see myself more that way than some other roles I’ve played recently,” she tells Variety. “Like a Betty White on ‘The Golden Girls’ kind of part, that’s what I need.”

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