Have you seen the stars tonite?

In previous live readings, I'm pretty sure that Armistead said that Mary Ann is based in part on the naive country boy that he was when he first started working as a society reporter at a local newspaper. I distinctly remember one article where he said he would crawl into the office after a VERY late night/early morning at some society bash, and regale all of the women in the office with stories of who did what to whom and for how long at these society parties. Tres amusant. Part of Mary Ann is probably also one (or more) of the KGO Channel 7 news anchors from the mid/late 70's, who were known for starting the "happy talk" news format, all of them very perky with huge Farrah Fawcett blown-dry do's.