If you haven't noticed, our once unthinkably unshakeable economic foundation has turned to quicksand. The holidays are coming and the weather is as inhospitable as Mr. Dow Jones.
A little Southern Comfort is in order. No, not that kind. The literary variety.
Our friends from Tennessee know better than most how to spin a good yarn. Although quite different personalities, these two TV favorites each have something to say about living, laughing and loving.
DIXIE CARTER
Everyone's favorite Emmy Award nominated designing woman, Dixie Carter's 1996 memoir Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker (Fireside) will warm your heart. It's one of the most precious and rewarding reads around. An instant bestseller the moment it hit shelves, Carter's homespun Southern grit and old-fashioned countrified wisdom will still carry you through the bleakest months ahead. Set the book aside on December 20th to watch her in the Hallmark holiday movie Our First Christmas.
Check out the video: Remember her great turn as the firebrand Julia Sugarbaker on the mega hit series Designing Women?
LESLIE JORDAN
Leslie Jordan won an Emmy Award for his recurring role on Will & Grace and is one of America's most prolific character actors. Jordan's new book My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (Simon Spotlight, 2008) chronicles his precarious rise in Hollywood. It is a veritable minefield of candid revelations: Addictions, personal demons, tattletale stories on his Tinsel town contemporaries and frank talk about being an out gay actor.
Ms. Carter as steel magnolia Julia Sugarbaker in Designing Women:
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