By the mid-1980s, she had not only the column in "The Village Voice", but a column in "Vogue" magazine and a column in "Playboy" magazine, the first ever by a woman about women. She continued to produce books based on her columns into the mid 1990s, while becoming a writer for television with "Kate and Allie", then moving to Hollywood, where she worked on "Dear John". In 1986, she wrote a play, "A Girl's Guide to Chaos" that was also published as a book.