I've written in the past about my friend Treva Silverman (also known as The Lovely Treva) who was not only the first female writer hired for the staff of legendary TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but was the first writer hired, period. And has won two Emmy Awards, as well. On top of all her other credits. (Like writing on the series, The Monkees and...well, you get the idea). And I've been writing about her a lot recently, since the winds seem to be blowing in a way where she's been a "talking had" on several TV documentaries lately and featured in articles -- notably an HBO documentary on Mary Tyler Show, an episode of the MSNBC series My Generation, and a Los Angeles Times feature piece. Well, we can add one more -- the other day, People Magazine did a story on her. All this, and she doesn't even have a publicist... Which saves a lot of money when you get the publicity all for free. The interesting thing about the headline is that far more impressive than being "the first female writer" hired -- Treva was (as I mentioned) the first writer hired! Though leaving out “female” from the headline wouldn’t make it as attention grabbing for reasons. And at least it gets mentioned within the article. The weird thing about the article is that it is so People. They really didn’t do much work, and left the heavy lifting to MSNBC. All they seemed to do is watch the My Generation episode and then described a little bit of what they watched that MSNBC did. In fact, the photo they used was one on TV. (Which is A Good Thing, since it’s a very nice photo.) To be clear, this isn’t a complaint about the article at all – I’m very they did it, no matter how much they took the easy way out. If you're interested (especially if you didn't see MSNBC's My Generation, you can read the brief article here. And the Treva Watch continues...
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