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Candice Bergen: still in demand - Radio Times, 15 July 2005

Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt in Boston Legal © FOX
We're used to politicians taking a pop at journalists, but there's little to top former US Vice-President Dan Quayle, who in 1992 attacked the show Murphy Brown - starring Candice Bergen as a TV journalist and single mother - as the epitome of everything that was wrong with American families. His outburst didn't harm Bergen, though - she won five Emmy awards for her role.

Bergen, 59, who pops up in tonight's Will & Grace, is now a regular on Boston Legal. Good to know there are still prime roles on US TV available to older actresses.

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