Long before Dana Delany was the newest cartoonish character on
"Desperate Housewives," she was
Colleen McMurphy, a good girl from Kansas stuck in that bad war in Vietnam.
"China Beach" was notable for exploring interpersonal relationships, rather... more than
battlefield exploits, through a woman's eyes -- mostly McMurphy's, but also
those of actors Concetta Tomei, Chloe Webb and Marg Helgenberger ("CSI"). Colleen faced the gritty
realities of war while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crazy world.
She worked hard, and she didn't whine about her existential angst or hook up
with all the wrong men ("Grey's Anatomy's"
Izzie, we're talking to you!). Close