Sandra Bernhard apologizes to Morgan Fairchild

Love Morgan. Good for Sandra admitting her bad attitude.

Sandra didn't have to do that and her apology was very sincere. People mellow as they get older and who hasn't regretted treating someone badly for no reason other than they were going through a massive cunt phase. Sandra could have found Morgan on social media but a public apology was much more meaningful.

"Fairchild appeared in a handful of episodes playing her bisexual girlfriend Marla"

Wasn't her character a lesbian?

I loved him in Driving Miss Daisy

I can understand how difficult it would be for someone as ugly as Sandra being paired with a beautiful actress. That was unfair to Sandra.

R5 = Tom Arnold.

Can you imagine how toxic that set must have been with Rosie Barrnold in charge?

This is weird. Do you think that Roseanne and others didn't approve of hiring Morgan for the role or they didn't have a say in the matter? I would find that hard to believe.

A 'difficult' set - I can believe that!

"In 1993, it was made public that Barr would refer to each of her 19 writers by a number rather than their name. The writers would wear shirts with their assigned number."

So this is when she started to really go batshit. 2 years into her marriage to Tom Arnold too.

It's amazing how much power was attained by such a couple of ugly and stupid morons. I can't imagine being someone as talented and beautiful as more compare child and having to put up with so much ugly. She clearly has some amount of class and tact.

If people mellow out when they get older, DL is clearly an exception.

What a nice pair of lesbians.

[quote]So this is when she started to really go batshit. 2 years into her marriage to Tom Arnold too.

The Roseanne set was a toxic set since its first season. Ken Levine's blog has done many articles on her craziness. Here's an article with women who worked on her show, who dismiss Roseanne's claims of sexism. Roseanne apparently treated many like shit, regardless of who you were.

More Compare Child has been fabulous in everything she has done.

I loved that Cybill Shepherd put her on her show as her rival, since they were both up for the Jacy role in The Last Picture Show.

This warms the cockles of my aging homosexual heart.

I've known several people who've booked Sandra and she's apparently a total nightmare. Good for her if she's mellowing a bit. Not having a career will do that to you!

“Who you callin a fuckin nightmare? I’ll show you a fucking nightmare!” 🤬

Casting Morgan Fairchild was brilliant. Sandra Bernhardt is jolie laide with a great body.

Some actresses, at that time, might have turned down that part (Morgan's), not wanting to be branded a lesbian.

those bitches need to kiss and make up

barf!

R2 yes, Morgan Fairchild's "Marla" was a lesbian.

Sandra Bernhard's "Nancy" was bisexual, who was previously engaged to Tom Arnold's "Arnie."

After "Marla," she gets it on with Tim Curry's "Roger."

Sorry, that was for R3.

R16 I don’t know what Sandra Bernhard is like for a booking… But I saw her about 15 years ago in San Francisco and she was completely rude and caustic to the audience. Apparently we were not worshiping her according to her expectations. I was done with her after that performance.

[quote]It's amazing how much power was attained by such a couple of ugly and stupid morons.

People forget just how huge ROSEANNE (1988 - 1997) was in the early '90s and how powerful and notorious Roseanne & Tom Arnold were by extension.

Always in the tabloids about something and apparently difficult to work with, but the show was consistently in the Top 3 in the ratings for most of its 9-season run (once at #1), so the powers that be were at their mercy.

There were even 2 unauthorized TV biopics about how they were just "white trash with money."

Here's one:

One of roseanne's biggest blunders was to spend a lot of her social capital on that Tom Arnold. What a mediocre dude.

Morgan has worked constantly for more than 40 years when a lot of her contemporaries aged out. I suspect she's a pro, always prepared, and pleasant to work with.

I actually saw this when it aired first time. And it really struck me how sincere of an apology it was. It was just a really great apology. You could tell that she meant it. Very classy move on her part

I think Sandra is a good person at the core who requires a fuckton of patience.

Incidentally, Morgan Fairchild started out in the business as Faye Dunaway's double in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde."

I wonder if La Dunaway was pleasant to her?

“like throwing a sausage into the Grand Canyon”

From the article:

“ Fairchild appeared in a handful of episodes playing her bisexual girlfriend Marla and appeared in three episodes of the comedy.”

What a poorly constructed sentence.

Yeah Roseanne and Tom were hell on wheels. But the show was at it's best (seasons 3-6) when the pair staged a coup by firing everyone from the first season and anyone who put up resistance to them. The show started to fall apart (season 7) when Roseanne and Tom divorced.

How did the Friends cast treat her? She played Chandler’s mom. The Friends set had a reputation for being chilly toward guest stars.

Morgan in an all too brief appearance on Two and a Half Men.

Background: Sheen's character is feeling blue because the hot young chicks (his specialty) at his favorite hangout don't want anything to do with 40 y/o Charlie. His brother takes him to a bar that caters to older adults.

In the 90s, they were all considered bisexual. Now, they're considered queer. Homophobia is still rampant and ugly.

Poor Morgan.

She's been on Roseanne, Two and a Half Men AND Cybill.

Three nastier sets you'd be unlikely to find.

No doubt Morgan was a pro and easy to work with which is probably why they hated her. If you've ever worked with unprofessional assholes in any kind of toxic environment then you know what I'm talking about.

When you're the only sane one in the room you become the insane. Except for Sandra everyone who has ever worked with Morgan has nothing but praise for her.

I liked the Tom Arnold years on Roseanne. His character was hilarious, IMO.

Morgan Fairchild is absolutely beautiful and classy. I'm guessing that she has lived within her means for all of these years.

I didn't care much about Morgan until I saw her Twitter feed and saw how intelligent and politically astute she was. Love her now.

Morgan has been on General Hospital a few times recently. She played a shopping channel host.

Those glasses are everything.

Morgan Fairchild is such a lady. She has interacted with me on insta. She's what you'd call a broad...and there's not many of those left. She's stuck it out, never got that big gig, but she's always a pleasantly surprise when she pops up in anything. Sandra was one of those 2 cool for school types.

Sandra always came across as the Leona Helmsley of the entertainment industry, a real queen of mean. I guess her hormones have stopped raging and she's slowly becoming human.

Given when this happen, early '90s and where they were career-wise at the time, this isn't at all surprising. A signficant portion of the previous decade had been spent trying to make Morgan "happen" and it just never clicked. She was a regular on multiple failed series and she was very emblematic of the plastic, overdone, 1980s style. Bernhard had come to her celebrity in an entirely different way and was still very much associated with her friendship with Madonna and as a fixture of the 1990s NY fashion/social scene. Essentially Sandra was the ugly duckling having her moment in the sun while Morgan was the captain of the cheerleading squad who had been sent out to pasture. It makes sense that the odd-looking Bernhard in the midst of her cultural moment would be dismissed of the conventionally beautiful but past her prime Fairchild.

The Seduction was supposed to be her big break into movies. I still love it. Sleazy but well done.

[quote] she was very emblematic of the plastic, overdone, 1980s style.

I miss the '80s stuff. The big hair, creativity, makeup, shoulder pads. People were making a statement, back then.

What I want to know is, how does anyone forgive Bernhard's punctuation in that reply?

R35 Well, they were bi. At least, Sandra's character was.

Today Morgan posted a recent pic of herself and Tom Arnold. Maybe Tom apologized, too?

Her guest appearance as Kelly Green on Murphy Brown is something that plays in my head quiet often.

that photo at r42 looks scarily similar to Taylor Swift with awful glasses and hair.

Whatever Sandra dished out, Morgan could take it

A message from Rosanne to the staff