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   Drew  writes:   
      
   >On 2007-09-22 2:21 a.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:   
   >> Meredith Viera:   
      
   >Vieira is the correct spelling (sorry to nitpick, but maybe it will help   
   >someone who Googles this later).   
      
   	Oh, blast.  Yeah.  I was worrying so much that I'd got the   
   Meredith right that the trickier part of the name evaded me.  Sorry.   
      
      
   >> Max's Weekend Plans:   
   >... 	   
   >> 	- But last month Conan made them read The Sisterhood of the   
   >> Travelling Pants, for the preteen girls.  Conan points out it's Young   
   >> Adult.  ``All right, Terry, you can pick the books, and we'll eat your   
   >> store-bought pasta salad and $8 chardonnay''  ``Better than your celery   
   >> sticks and flat ginger ale.''   
      
   >Don't forget the ``cottage cheese'' with the celery sticks.   
      
   	I must be slipping; I missed that entirely.  Well, it was a   
   densely-written piece.   
      
      
   >This sketch was terrifically written and performed. I liked the way it   
   >incorporated Conan's insecurities about his masculinity as well as Max's   
   >weird sexual tastes. More unusual and remarkable, though, were all the   
   >feminine details, because the show's humor usually slants towards the male   
   >side. It's not often that the show ventures into the territory of chick-lit   
   >novels (``And don't tell me you haven't dreamed of a magic pair of jeans   
   >that fit your curves just right!'') and store-bought pasta salad. Are there   
   >any female writers on the staff nowadays?   
      
   	You're right, and I didn't pay enough attention to evaluating   
   it.  It's a bit more naturalistic than (say) the -tastic guy in that   
   a scene like this could happen pretty much anywhere as long as there   
   were enough people you didn't notice other-folks-you-know being in the   
   same crowd.   
      
   	I haven't looked particularly at the writing staff lately so I   
   have no idea if there are female writers -- or new writers -- recently.   
   I'm not sure the sketch is particularly knowledgeable about women's   
   book clubs (of course, I'm not either) or if it's more about the insane   
   politics of small and really unimportant communities, which get their   
   own intense insanity.   
      
      
   >Oh, and the Giants won on Sunday, by the way.   
      
   	Ah!  Are they still in the running for the Stanley Field Cup,   
   then?   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
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