Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second defeat seems not to trouble her. In 1980 she sold a television series called Maggie, based on one of Bombeck's typical housewives, to ABC. Living in a Los Angeles apartment during the week, Bombeck got up at 5 each morning to write her column and by 9 was at a desk at Universal City Studios writing TV scripts. Bombeck never quite learned to love speaking show biz-"That line doesn't work for me, sweetie" and "Trust me"-and Maggie sank without a trace after eight episodes. The lines were funny but somehow the show wasn...
...Boston Herald. Last year she was given her own weekly column, "That's Life," which appears in the paper's Sunday edition. She is delighted that opportunity knocked after her three children entered adolescence. "When they're young," she says, "you're too tired to write...
...year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that makes them special...
...best Bombeck tradition. The difference is in the voice: Stewart has a much deeper one. D.L., who was known as Denny before legally changing his name to initials, is a liberated husband of 20 years and the father of four. In a Dayton Journal Herald column, he writes about the ordinary upsets at his tri-level home in the bedroom community of Beaverbrook, Ohio. Stewart has not always been one of the dinette set, however. In the beginning, he wanted to be another Jimmy Breslin, but after hanging out in locker rooms, the curly-haired journalist realized ten years...
...establishment's onetime bartender. Two of the main characters in the article were composites; some opinions supposedly voiced by Spaniards were Reid's own musings. Said Reid to the Journal: "Whether the bar existed or not was irrelevant to what I was after. If one wants to write about Spain, the facts won't get you anywhere." He told the Times that he was seeking "a larger reality," and was serving "truth" as he saw it. He said later in the week that one main motive was to protect his sources, but conceded that he could have...