I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

She is a 1973 graduate of Southern Methodist University where Patricia Richardson was friends with classmates Beth Henley and Stephen Tobolowsky who was slated to be a cast member of Home Improvement but had other contractual commitments when the series began filming. Richardson also appeared in the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. U.