ENCORE: Revisit Cagney and Lacey with Sharon Gless | 80s TV Ladies

Encore! Encore! In celebration of the premiere of Cagney & Lacey 42nd years ago this week, here is a look back at the special Sharon Gless interview we dropped one year ago today!

Sharon and Susan are at Podcast Movement Evolutions and The Ambies this week! So here's a look back to when they go to sit down with show business legend Sharon Gless. Multi-Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Sharon Gless has appeared in dozens of television shows such as “Nip/Tuck”, “Rizzoli & Isles”, “The Rockford Files”, “House Calls,”The Bob Newhart Show”, “Station 19” and “The Exorcist.” She has created iconic and ground-breaking characters in the shows “Burn Notice”, “Queer as Folk”, “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” and of course “Cagney & Lacey”.

In 2021 she published her bestselling, no-holds-barred autobiography “Apparently There Were Complaints”. In this in-depth interview, Sharon Gless talks frankly about feminism, her ongoing friendship with Tyne Daly, her affair, marriage and almost-divorce from Barney Rosenzweig, her struggles with substance abuse and recovery -- and the lasting legacy of the characters she’s played.

THE CONVERSATION
The moment Sharon Gless knew she wanted to be an actress – and knew she would not fail “The first feminist I ever met…” – Barney Rosenzweig?? How Cagney and Lacey we’re NEVER friends. How Sharon was actually the VERY FIRST person approached to play Christine Cagney – and why she turned it down. Earning $186 a week as the last contract player at Universal. “The Woman Behind the Woman”: how talent manager Monique James left her position as VP at MCA/Universal to become Sharon’s personal manager – and changed her life. Being forced to watch herself on film to learn what she was doing right -- and wrong. Hashing out billing, and rehearsing her first table read as Cagney, with Tyne Daly over a bottle of champagne. Why Christine Cagney wanted to be first through the door with a gun. Improvising and window shopping for the Cagney & Lacey main titles. Participating with Tyne Daly and Gloria Steinem in the 2004 Women’s March on Washington – and seeing the true impact of “Cagney & Lacey” for the first time. Being Stephen J. Cannell’s “good luck charm!” Falling in love with Debbie Novotny on “Queer as Folk”.
So join Susan, Sharon – and Sharon Gless – as they talk poker nights with Tyne, the “C”-word, the other “C”-word -- and what did she really say to that flasher??

AUDIOGRAPHY
Official website: SharonGless.com (https://www.sharongless.com/)
Sharon Gless Facebook page. (  / officialsharongless  )

Sharon Gless’ autobiography “Apparently There Were Complaints” at Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/p/books/apparent...) .
Watch the trailer for Sharon’s Award-winning documentary - Show Her The Money (   • Show Her The Money - Official Trailer  )

WHERE TO WATCH
Cagney & Lacey on ROKU (https://therokuchannel.roku.com/detai...) . On PLUTO. (https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/...) On Apple TV. (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/cagney--...)
Trials of Rosie O’Neill on Roku (https://therokuchannel.roku.com/detai...) . On Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai...) .
Queer as Folk on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai...) . On Apple TV (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/queer-as...) .
Burn Notice on HULU (https://www.hulu.com/series/1beecd6b-...) . On Apple TV (https://194789bbbf8ehttps//tv.apple.com/us/show/burn-notice/umc.cmc.2dvjshaz7w865fk56136zsw6u) .

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