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,
Louise S. Robbins Madison, Wisconsin she became the first woman city council person and then the first woman mayor. Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001. On the occasion of the Oklahoma Library Association Centennial in 2007, she was named one of the state's 100 Library Legends (living or dead). Louise S. Robbins Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians and intellectual freedom in the United States. Her best known work