after only seven aired episodes after November 2001. In 1994, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. In 2018, Bloodworth-Thomason wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter in which she stated that, starting in 1995, then-president of CBS Les Moonves kept her shows off the air for seven years, derailing her career by turning down every pilot she proposed, despite her having what was at the time the largest writing and producing contract in the history of CBS. Other work Her first novel, Liberating Paris, was published in 2004. Variety reported in March 2005 that the Thomasons were working on a screen adaptation of the novel, with actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Bob Thornton, and Dwight Yoakam committed to the film despite there being no completed script. It was one of two film projects that the Thomasons were to produce with Jeff Sagansky, the other being a Bloodworth-Thomason script called Southern Comfort, based on a 2001 documentary of the same name by filmmaker Kate Davis. A new series, 12 Miles of Bad Road, was slated to debut on HBO. The show starred Gary Cole and Lily Tomlin. After six episodes of a proposed ten-episode run were shot, the show was dropped by HBO before being broadcast. Her documentary Bridegroom premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2015, Bloodworth-Thomason wrote a revised book to a reworked musical version of First Wives Club. Friendship with the Clintons The Thomasons' friendship with the Clintons dates to Bill Clinton's days as governor of Arkansas. The couple created several short-subject political promotional films for Clinton and for other candidates, such as General Wesley Clark's presidential bid and Hillary Clinton's run for the United States Senate. References External links 1947 births American women television producers American television writers Living people People from Poplar Bluff, Missouri University of Missouri alumni American women television writers American documentary filmmakers American women screenwriters Film directors from Missouri Screenwriters from Missouri Designing Women American women documentary filmmakers Television producers from Missouri 21st-century American women