Gail Parent is an American television and screenwriter, television producer, and author. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ...

Parent's writing career began with a 1971 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The following year her novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York City, which chronicled its unattractive, overweight, Jewish heroine's romantic misadventures in Manhattan, became a best-seller that later served as the basis of a film starring Jeannie Berlin. Although the screenplay was adapted by someone else, she penned the scripts for Barbra Streisand's The Main Event (1979) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004). The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... This article is about the type of character. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... Jeannie Berlin (November 1, 1949) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. ... The Main Event (1979 film) Comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan ONeal, directed by Howard Zieff. ... Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American comedy movie. ...

Parent's greatest success has been in television, most notably with The Golden Girls and Tracey Ullman's comedy sketch series Tracey Takes On..., serving as a producer and writer for both. She also wrote episodes of The Smothers Brothers Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Rhoda, Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and Finder of Lost Loves, and the musical variety special Sills and Burnett at the Met. The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on NBC from September 14, 1985 to May 9, 1992. ... Tracey Ullman (born December 30, 1959) is a British comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Tracey Takes On. ... The Smothers Brothers Show was a situation comedy featuring the Smothers Brothers that aired on CBS on Friday nights at 9:30 p. ... The original cast in 1967. ... Rhoda is an American situation comedy and a television spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Amazing Stories was the name of an American television show put together by director Steven Spielberg from 1985 to 1987. ... Finder of Lost Loves is an American television series shown by the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season. ... A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... A television special is a television program, typically a short film or television movie, which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. ... Beverly Sills (born Belle Miriam Silverman on May 25, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York) was perhaps the best-known American opera singer in the 1960s and 1970s. ... Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is a successful comedienne mostly on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ...

Parent is the winner of a CableACE Award and two Emmys, and has been nominated for an additional twelve Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards. The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programing. ... An Emmy Award. ... Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ...

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