Gail Parent

Gail Parent
Born	Gail Kostner (1940-08-12) August 12, 1940 New York City, New York
Occupation	Screenwriter, television producer

Gail Parent (born August 12, 1940) is an American television screenwriter, television producer, and author.

Life and career

Parent was born Gail Kostner in New York City, New York, the daughter of Ruth (née Goldberg) and Theodore Kostner, a Wall Street executive.^[1] Parent's writing career began in the 1960s where she teamed up with writer Kenny Solms. Her big break came when she began writing for The Carol Burnett Show. She later went on to write for other TV shows including a 1971 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The following year her novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, 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).

Parent co-wrote the book for the 1974 musical Lorelei. It is her sole Broadway credit.

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, Babes (of which she also served as series creator) and Finder of Lost Loves, and the musical variety special Sills and Burnett at the Met. With Kenny Solms, she created the 1970 situation comedy The Tim Conway Show.

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. Grandson Zach received a 100% on his first Multi-variable Calculus Exam at the University of Michigan. He will go down in history.^[2]

References

↑ "Gail Parent Biography (1940-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
↑ SamirShah

External links

Gail Parent at the Internet Movie Database
Gail Parent interview video at the Archive of American Television

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1970–79)

1970–1973

Gary Belkin, Peter Bellwood, Thomas Meehan, Herb Sargent and Judith Viorst (1970)
Herbert Baker, Hal Goodman, Larry Klein, Bob Schiller, Norman Steinberg, Bob Weiskopf and Flip Wilson / Bob Ellison and Marty Farrell (1971)
Art Baer, Roger Beatty, Stan Burns, Stan Hart, Don Hinkley, Ben Joelson, Woody Kling, Mike Marmer, Arnie Rosen and Larry Siegel / Anne Howard Bailey (1972)
Bill Angelos, Roger Beatty, Stan Hart, Robert Hilliard, Woody Kling, Arnie Kogen, Buz Kohan, Gail Parent, Tom Patchett, Larry Siegel and Jay Tarses / Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (1973)

1974–1978

Specials	Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld Miller, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren and George Yanok (1974) John Bradford, Cy Coleman and Bob Wells (1975) Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Lorne Michaels, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren and George Yanok (1976) Buz Kohan and Ted Strauss (1977) Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin and Alan Zweibel (1978)

Series	Roger Beatty, Gary Belkin, Dick Clair, Rudy De Luca, Arnie Kogen, Barry Harman, Barry Levinson, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond and Ed Simmons (1974) Roger Beatty, Gary Belkin, Dick Clair, Rudy De Luca, Arnie Kogen, Barry Levinson, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond and Ed Simmons (1975) Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel (1976) Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tom Davis, James Downey, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel (1977) Roger Beatty, Dick Clair, Tim Conway, Rick Hawkins, Robert Illes, Jenna McMahon, Gene Perret, Bill Richmond, Liz Sage, Larry Siegel, Franelle Silver, Ed Simmons and James Stein (1978)

1979

Alan Alda (1979)

Complete list
(1957–1969)
(1970–1979)
(1980–1989)
(1990–1999)
(2000–2009)
(2010–2019)

The Carol Burnett Show

Cast members	Carol Burnett Harvey Korman (1967-1977) Lyle Waggoner (1967-1974) Vicki Lawrence Tim Conway (1974-1978) Dick Van Dyke (1977)

Writers	Dick Clair Tim Conway Rudy De Luca Hal Goldman Stan Hart Robert Illes Arthur Julian Woody Kling Arnie Kogen Buz Kohan Barry Levinson Jenna McMahon Gail Parent Tom Patchett Pat Proft Bill Richmond Bob Schiller Larry Siegel James R. Stein Burt Styler Jay Tarses Bob Weiskopf

Producer	Joe Hamilton

Director	Dave Powers

Notable sketches	"As the Stomach Turns" "The Family" "Went with the Wind!"

Characters	Thelma Harper Eunice Harper Higgins Ed Higgins Ellen Harper

Films and TV shows based on sketches	Carol Burnett & Company (1979) Eunice (1982) Mama's Family (1982-1984; 1986-1990)

Regular guest stars	Ken Berry Eydie Gormé Steve Lawrence Jim Nabors Bernadette Peters

Other related persons	Ernie Anderson (announcer) Bob Mackie (costumes) Peter Matz (musical director)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 2593136 ISNI: 0000 0000 7834 404X SUDOC: 113850204 BNF: cb12629856w (data)

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