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Beatts died at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. Kennedy, a film producer and a fellow faculty member at Chapman University, did not immediately know the cause of death. Starting in 1975 and running for five seasons, Beatts was among a team of gifted writers that included Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel, Marilyn Suzanne Miller and such cast members as Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase who helped make Saturday Night Live a cultural phenomenon. With Shuster, she would invent the beloved young nerds, the nasally, Marvin Hamlisch-adoring Lisa Loopner (playe...

Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original ‘SNL’ staff and more, dies at 74 Updated 7:14 AM; Today 7:14 AM FILE - Anne Beatts arrives at the premiere of "Live from New York!" in Los Angeles on June 10, 2015. Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” died Wednesday, April 7, at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. She was 74. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Facebook Share NEW YORK (AP) — Anne Be...

Anne Beatts, comedy writer on original ‘SNL’ staff dies at 74 Updated 6:37 AM; Today 6:37 AM FILE - Anne Beatts arrives at the premiere of "Live from New York!" in Los Angeles on June 10, 2015. Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” died Wednesday, April 7, at her home in West Hollywood, California, according to her close friend Rona Kennedy. She was 74. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Facebook Share Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking comed...