After an impressive start on the Broadway stage in the 1960s and 1970s, actress Holland Taylor made a mark for herself in film and television as memorable “spitfires” who were often authoritative professionals possessing a brazen attitude and bawdy wit. Her big breakout came with just such a characterization of an ad agency boss in the historic TV favorite “Bosom Buddies” (ABC, 1980-82). With her patrician air, dry quips and impeccable comic timing, Taylor brought a delightful old-Hollywood sensibility to her best-known roles as a tabloid editor in "The Naked Truth" (ABC, 1995-96; NBC,
