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To: E who wrote (17142)	7/11/2002 9:42:34 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 21057

Maybe I'll put my poking-stick down now. Here's a reverse poke, sort of. <g> JULY 11, 06:56 ET Bergen: Quayle Was Right About Murphy By The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Turns out actress Candice Bergen really did agree with Dan Quayle. Ten years ago, then-Vice President Quayle criticized Bergen's ``Murphy Brown'' TV character for ``mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another `lifestyle choice.''' ``I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless,'' Bergen said Tuesday. ``But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.'' In May, Quayle touted the moral value of ``The Osbournes,'' MTV's hit series about the profanity-filled home life of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family. Quayle liked that the offensive words are bleeped and the show features what he called two ``loving parents.'' ``That Dan, you just can't predict him,'' Bergen said, laughing. ``I think that all of us feel that family values have to sort of come back front and center. I don't know if he watched `The Osbournes' because he certainly never watched `Murphy Brown,' which didn't stop him from talking about it.'' Bergen met with the Television Critics Association to discuss her new Oxygen series, ``Candice Checks It Out,'' in which she visits with non-celebrities in their own environment. She rejected a proposed idea of interviewing Quayle, whom she's never met, on her show. ``I just thought it was better to take the high road there,'' Bergen said.