Performance Anxiety

September, 1993

I wasn't planning to unearth a land mine of female rage and resentment. I thought I was just asking a simple question. Our grisly story starts in England. While I was there last month I saw this hit TV quiz show called Have I Got News for You. Each week's show features two male hosts and assorted celebrity guests being incessantly witty. On the shows I watched, these guests were all men. I asked a friend of the producers why that was so. "They're desperate for women," he said. "Th...