viewpoint. and who better than women to say women will laugh at that? and so when i put together the characters for the van dike show, i said, we need the woman s viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said, rosemary, it s a beautiful piece of writing. it really is. but you know, alan, if he doesn t get a laugh every 10s he calls the cops and has the audience arrested. rosemary on the dick van dike show was great for women who might aspire to being in the writers room because that was the first glimpse we got. maybe that that was possible. it s not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sitcoms or they were secretaries and teachers. they weren t writers. you mean to say that you d give up your job for us? yeah. compared to you, i m a runt. compared to a rat. you re a rat. my mother didn t want me to be funny because how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time? but here was rosemary. she was blond and pretty and fu