More on Cagney & Lacey, or, aren't you glad it's not the 80s anymore?
I looked up Cagney & Lacey on wikipedia and found out that there are two Cagneys, and that the first Cagney was replaced by CBS executives with the following justification:
"[T]oo tough, too hard and not feminine. [...] They were too harshly women's lib. The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers.' These women on Cagney & Lacey seemed more intent on fighting the system than doing police work. We perceived them as dykes."
Exit Meg Foster, enter Sharon Gless, and pressure from the executives to make the character softer and more high-class. Which the writers refused to do. :-)
I'm not sure how much the change affected the writing (I still have only seen a few eps), but dude, too slashy for television. Is there fic? There needs to be fic.
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"[T]oo tough, too hard and not feminine. [...] They were too harshly women's lib. The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers.' These women on Cagney & Lacey seemed more intent on fighting the system than doing police work. We perceived them as dykes."
Exit Meg Foster, enter Sharon Gless, and pressure from the executives to make the character softer and more high-class. Which the writers refused to do. :-)
I'm not sure how much the change affected the writing (I still have only seen a few eps), but dude, too slashy for television. Is there fic? There needs to be fic.
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