Louise Lasser for starring as the neurotic, unhappy housewife Mary Hartman in the serialized satire "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" appearing on the covers of "Newsweek", "People", and "Rolling Stone" during the run of the show. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" aired five nights a week for two seasons from 1976-1977. In his autobiography, producer Norman Lear says that the casting of Lasser took less than a minute after Charles H. Joffe told him there was only one actress to play the part of Mary Hartman and Lear met the former Mrs. Woody Allen. Lasser refused the role at first. Of the casting process,
Lily Nie Lily Nie Lily Nie (born 1963) is the founder of Chinese Children Adoption International, which has overseen the international adoptions of over 10,160 Chinese children. Lily Nie was born in Yingkou in 1963. She earned a law degree from Fushun University. She moved to the United States in 1987 to marry her fiancé, Joshua Zhong. She and her husband relocated to Colorado from South Carolina in 1988, when her husband received a scholarship to Denver Seminary. In the 1990s, she began working on a master's degree in business administration, and earned it in 1994 from the University of Phoenix. She