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INTRODUCTION: Now it's time to meet the stars of your favorite shows on TV Guide's "Insider." One of the latest Lifetime's Intimate Portraits focuses on the life of actress Dixie Carter, who wasn't afraid for the world to take a look at her beginnings.
DIXIE: And so far it's about my giving away secrets about my childhood. I'm happy to do that because I had such a wonderful childhood. I feel like it could be a happy thing, maybe even an inspiring thing, for someone else to see that it's possible to grow up in such a lovely way.
INSIDER: What concerned Dixie most about agreeing to have her life examined was that some of her friends might end up on the cutting room floor.
DIXIE: Once I asked members of my family to give interviews for an Intimate Portrait, I was very much in the hopes that nobody would give the interview and then get left out; know that everybody's participation would be honored, but it would be very sad to me for certain people to get left out.
INSIDER: Pulling the project together wasn't easy, but it returned Dixie to her Southern routes.
DIXIE: Took a long time, months. Yeah, and pulling the pictures together and the interviews, and we went to Tennessee. We went all the way there and got into that old house where I was born, my father was born in it, my aunt and uncle, my sister and brother and I, all of us, lit the fire and started to talk.
INSIDER: And when Dixie sits down to watch her Intimate Portrait, she may decide to watch it alone.
DIXIE: My father, Halbert Carter, who lives with Hal and with me, and my husband Hal, and maybe my daughters will want to watch it with me. I don't know; this will be very special. This will be a very emotional thing for me to see. I might end up watching it by myself.
INSIDER: Next, Dixie's bittersweet memories of her days on Designing Women when the "Insider" returns.
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INSIDER: The "Insider" returns with Dixie Carter. Dixie Carter has found herself on top of another successful show.
DIXIE: I can't believe it, the chances of that are -- just go onto Las Vegas
and roll the dice. One successful television series -- but two! -- which I think I'm in; I think Family Law is a hit!
INSIDER: And Dixie is trying to bond with her new cast.
DIXIE: And a bunch of them were over at the house during Christmas. I love them dearly but we haven't been together for seven years yet. And also, as I said, we don't get to because of the format of shooting an hour show, we don't get to spend every day, morning 'till evening, all together, just us.
INSIDER: Family Law, though, is following in the footsteps of a show that Dixie still has strong memories of.
DIXIE: Designing Women! We were always all there, every day, every morning.
We were all there, we knew each other inside out, we were like this, and it
killed me when that show came down. It broke my heart, it was a great grief.
INSIDER: Having a recent visit with Annie Potts brought back Dixie sad feelings of missing the Designing Women cast.
DIXIE: I went to see Annie last week during the Christmas vacation, and I . . . (starts to cry) she was waving out of the window, and I don't see her very often, and I got this terrible lump in my throat when I realized I hadn't seen her house and she's been living in it for two years. It's never the same, no matter how you remain friends and love someone. It isn't the same as when you see them every single day. What a luscious thing to do!
INSIDER: That's all from the "Insider" for now, and find out what new challenges Dixie Carter is looking forward to, by logging on to TVGuide online.
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