Word: newswomen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program, his genre, the entire medium). Letterman will appear as himself next month on The Larry Sanders Show, which is Garry Shandling's spot-on comedy about a fictitious late-night network talk program called The Larry Sanders Show. In the episode, Sanders is beaten out by Letterman for an award, then...
...Paula Zahn, Faith Daniels, Mary Alice Williams. The scene plays like one of those old I Love Lucy episodes, with the Ricardos in Hollywood. (Look -- it's William Holden! And Harpo Marx!) Actually, it is the most star-studded baby shower in TV history. All these real-life TV newswomen have come to pay tribute to their most famous fictional colleague: Murphy Brown...
...show's habit of mingling real-life references (and occasional guest appearances) with its fictional TV news crew is carried to a new level in the baby-shower episode. The visiting TV newswomen do surprisingly well in their cameo appearances, delivering quips about such things as balancing career and motherhood. (Says Williams: "I once asked Garrick Utley if he had to make a boom-boom.") But the encounter simply lends a bogus aura of credibility to a show that seems phony at its soul. And why do all the guests at the shower come from the soft-news world...