Anne Beatts, original 'Saturday Night Live' writer, dead at 74
Anne Beatts also created "Square Pegs," what was then a rare sitcom centering on teenage girls and starring Sarah Jessica Parker in her breakthrough role.
Author: Associated Press
Updated: 7:46 PM EDT April 8, 2021
NEW YORK — Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer with a taste for sweetness and the macabre who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs,” has died. She was 74.
Beatts died Wednesday 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.