Even when he was in retirement I felt I was poaching on his territory. He'd joke and say he was 'the father of Candice Bergen,' and that was only partially a joke. It was very hard on him. Bergen appeared in the Burt Reynolds romantic comedy "Starting Over" (1979), for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for best supporting actress. She portrayed a best-selling author in "Rich and Famous" (1981) with Jacqueline Bisset. A remake of the Bette Davis film Old Acquaintance, it was not a success. In 1982, Bergen appeared in the Oscar-winning film "Gandhi" in which she portrayed documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Bergen was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1984 she joined the Broadway cast of "Hurlyburly". On television, Bergen appeared as Morgan Le Fay in "Arthur the King" (1985) and in the miniseries "Hollywood Wives" (1985). She was Burt Reynolds' romantic interest in "Stick" (1985), and for TV appeared in "Murder: By Reason of Insanity" (1985) and "Mayflower Madam" (1987). In addition to acting, Bergen has written articles, a play, and a memoir, "Knock Wood" (1984). She has also studied photography and worked as a photojournalist. In 1988, she took the lead role in the sitcom "Murphy Brown", in which she played a tough television reporter. The series provided her with the opportunity to show her little-seen comic talent, and although primarily a conventional sitcom, the show did tackle important issues. Murphy Brown, a recovering alcoholic, became a single mother and later battled breast cancer. In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized prime-time TV for showing the Murphy Brown character "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice." Quayle's disparaging remarks were subsequently written into the show, with Murphy shown watching Quayle's speech in disbelief at his insensitivity and ignorance of the reality of the lives of single mothers. A subsequent episode explored the subject of family values within a diverse set of families. The Brown character arranges for a truckload of potatoes to be dumped in front of Quayle's residence, an allusion to an infamous incident in which Quayle erroneously directed a school child to spell the word "potato" as "potatoe".