Richard Skipper Celebrates Susan Silver

Published: July 20, 2023, 7 p.m.

b'Susan Silver wrote two Top Ten Movies of the Week, feature films and pilots for her own sit-coms. She has appeared on TV talk shows such as Fox Good Day NY (5) , The Today Show (3), is a frequent radio guest on Boomer issues for the Growing Bolder radio program, Bill Bennett Show and others. She has a long running radio commentary on the NPR affiliate out of Connecticut called \\u201cSusan Says\\u201d on www.Robinhoodradio.com and ITunes. Profiled in TV Guide, Esquire and other publications, she has written OP-Ed pieces for The New York Times, articles for Los Angeles Magazine, Refinery 29 and had a long running column on newyorksocialdiary.com entitled \\u201cThe Search For Mr. Adequate.\\u201d In a second career, she worked in Holocaust related organizations such as the Anti Defamation League, running their Speakers Bureau, and as a UN Observer for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.\\n\\nHer memoir, \\u201cHot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms was published in 2017. Hot Pants In Hollywood is a Show Biz memoir, and much more. It\'s a Baby Boomer\'s lifeon steroids. Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, Bob Newhart, among others. As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, "She made it after all!" From another Midwest town, Milwaukee, with all its Sixties\' values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful career as one of the first women in TV sitcoms, and reinvented herself in different prominent arenas in New York.Along the way, she "Searched for Mr. Adequate," her well received dating column, had many romantic adventures, loves and loss, and she\'s \'still here!\'\\n\\n\\xa0If you love \'Show Biz\' and want to know what it\'s like behind the scenes, Hot Pants in Hollywood is very funny...sexy too!'