Army Archerd,
Joyce Haber, and
Vernon Scott all appear as themselves reviewing a Broadway play. Each was in his or her own right a successful columnist writing almost exclusively about famous personalities in the entertainment world and the various shows in which these personalities performed, but, unlike the suggestion in Ann's fantasies that these three columnists give her and the New York-based play bad reviews, these three columnists lived and worked their entire careers primarily in Los Angeles and, for the most part, restricted their columns to topics pertaining to Hollywood.
Army Archerd wrote for Variety;
Joyce Haber wrote for the Los Angeles Times, and
Vernon Scott wrote for United Press International (UPI).