Nebraska, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The birth places of Johnny Carson, Angie Dickinson and Orson Welles. Who says all the talent comes from the East or West Coast? Well, not me that's for sure. And who out there doesn't like these three (If you're one of those that doesn't please don't let me know)?
Standing in the middle of those two larger than life personalities is Angie of course, best known to cinephiles for films such as Rio Bravo and Dressed to Kill. But her biggest fame came from her highly successful run as Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson on Police Woman. The show originated as an episode of anthology series Police Story in which her character's name was Lisa Beaumont. The show ran from 1974-78 and is considered a trailblazer for its portrayal of a tough central female character. From Wikipedia (that biased mouthpiece of the bleeding heart Commie Liberal establishment): "Police Woman" also caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States. Sociologists who have in recent years examined the inspiration for long-term female law enforcement officials to adopt this vocation as their own have been surprised by how often "Police Woman" with Angie Dickinson has been referenced, thus neutralizing more strident feminist arguments from the 1970s that the initial portrait of "Pepper" was too sexualized to be constructive, suggesting that many women viewers found the character's balance of toughness in a male-oriented career with that of "traditional" femininity to be appealing. From Conservapedia (that wholly trustworthy unbiased mouthpiece of babbling crazy people named Schlafly) we get... nothing. Well maybe Johnny gets something. Nope, nothing. How about Orson? Two lines. But surely Citizen Kane gets more than ... nope, two lines. So all that stuff on Angie, Johhny and Orson on Wikipedia must just be liberal padding. Damn liberals!
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