Lessons learned in 2 years Holidays that appear in TV plots: Christmas, not Mothers Day Themes: Woman's right to make her own health care decisions (Sissy Spacek's TV Movie & China Beach) Daytime dramas & spectacles (Agnes Nixon, Levine's book & "Vulture Culture") Careers & Legacies (Latina actress Marlene Forte, ventriloquist Shari Lewis, awesome feminist Dinah Shore) Writer for TV (interviews with Susan Silver and April Smith) Politics as seen in Geena Davis' Commander in Chief, Maude & the voice of Rosie O'Donnell and the women TV journalists who reported on Watergate scandal.