Anne Beatts, pioneering 'SNL' writer and 'Square Pegs' creator, has died
Anne Beatts, a pioneering writer for "Saturday Night Live" and National Lampoon who also created the sitcom "Square Pegs," died Wednesday, according to a statement from NBC. She was 74. A two-time Emmy winner for "SNL," Beatts became the first female contributing editor to the humor magazine National Lampoon before being tapped as part of the founding writing team on the NBC latenight program in 1975. She worked on a number of memorable sketches, including several featuring Gilda Radner, among them the "Nerds" with then-writing partner Rosie Shuster. Beatts was also a writer on the 1980 film ...
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