Sybil Sage wrote for the television shows Northern Exposure, Maude and The New Dick Van Dyke Show, among others.
Sybil Sage
By Sybil Sage
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Opinion I faced network censorship in the heyday of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore — the Trump era is different
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Film & TV How I Fended Off My Own Personal Harvey Weinsteins
“Oy, this is bad for the Jews” is how my parents would have reacted to a scandal involving a Weinstein. They screened every newspaper story with that criterion. I can imagine them bemoaning that calling earthquakes Arlene, Gert, Irma, and Nate would also be “bad for the Jews.” The storm named Harvey, I’m guessing, like…
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News Laughing at Death
‘There are no online reviews for hospices,” I said to my 79-year-old brother shortly after he announced he was stopping dialysis. His decision meant this was the first day of the rest of his life, yet we both laughed. Jack had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, complicated by serious heart and kidney problems….
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News Til Death Do Us Part? Not So Fast
My husband, Martin, and I have been married for 31 years, so it’s not as if there hasn’t been time to consider an end-of-life strategy. We could have resolved the issue while driving to Costco, except it’s a conversation Martin was determined to avoid. That we had no Exit Plan was less troubling when our…
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