Question: Diane English is best known for creating the television show "Murphy Brown" and writing and directing the 2008 feature film, "The Women", an updated version of the George Cukor-directed 1939 film of the same name based on a 1936 play by what author?

Context articles: Joey Gutierrez
Diane Burroughs
Fric-Frac
Little Women (1994 film)
Star Trek: Phase II
Jason Margolis
Diane English
Remix (film)
The Women (2008 film)
The Odd Couple

Joey Gutierrez is a writer and producer of sitcoms for American television.
 His writing credits include "Married... with Children", "Murphy Brown", "Martin", "The Drew Carey Show", "Yes, Dear" and "Still Standing".
 A former stand-up comedian who began performing at the age of sixteen, he also wrote many of Jerry's routines in the early seasons of "Seinfeld".
 He was a co-executive producer of "Yes, Dear", and then became executive producer of "Still Standing", along with co-creator Diane Burroughs.
 Gutierrez is also a member of The Magic Castle.
 He is represented by the United Talent Agency.
Diane Burroughs is a writer and producer of sitcoms for American television.
 Her writing credits include "Married... with Children", "Murphy Brown", "Martin", "The Drew Carey Show", "Yes, Dear" and "Still Standing".
 She was a co-executive producer of "Yes, Dear", and then became executive producer of "Still Standing", along with co-creator Joey Gutierrez.
 Prior to writing, Burroughs had a short stint doing stand-up comedy.
 She is represented by the United Talent Agency.
Fric-Frac is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and Maurice Lehmann, starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon.
 It tells the story of Marcel, an assistant to a jeweller, who befriends a couple of criminals who want to use him as an accomplice to rob his boss.
 The film is based on a 1936 play by Édouard Bourdet.
 Filming took place in March and April 1939 at the Laboratoires et Studios Eclair in Épinay-sur-Seine.
 The film was released in France on 15 June 1939 through Solaris Distribution.
Little Women is a 1994 American family drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong.
 The screenplay by Robin Swicord is based on the 1868 Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name.
 It is the fourth feature film adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a 1933 George Cukor-directed release and a 1949 adaptation by Mervyn LeRoy.
 It was released exclusively on December 21, 1994, and was released nationwide four days later on December 25, 1994, by Columbia Pictures.
Star Trek: Phase II, also known as Star Trek II, is an unproduced American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as a sequel to "", which had run from 1966 to 1969.
 The plans for the series were first developed after the failure to create a feature film based on the earlier series during the 1970s, coupled with the proposal for Paramount Television Service as a fourth television network in the United States.
 "Phase II" would have been the lead program for the network, being broadcast at 8pm EST on Saturday nights.
 Following the announcement that "Star Trek" was returning as a series on June 17, 1977, Roddenberry began recruiting new crewmembers, including Harold Livingston and Robert Goodwin as executive producers.
 Other staff returning from "The Original Series" included William Ware Theiss, while Matt Jefferies was hired as a technical advisor and designed an updated version of the USS "Enterprise".
 The initial order was for a two-hour pilot episode, followed by 13 episodes.
Jason Margolis is a Canadian filmmaker and writer.
 He is supervising producer and writer on "The Electric Playground", a tech and entertainment series seen on television in Canada, United States and Australia.
 His directing work includes the television series "Tube Tales: TV's Real Stories", the documentary "Ayaa: A Hero's Journey" and the feature film "Lucky Stars".
 He won the National Screen Institute's Totally Television award for creating the comedy series Uncorked with filmmaker Rob Wenzek and the BC Film Kickstart Award for his short film After Shock.
 His screenplay The Great One (formerly titled 99), co-authored with Todd Babiak, won a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship.
 His motion picture editing work includes the documentaries Inside Boystown and K-9 Corrections, several television series, and the feature film "Crossing".
 As an instructor, Jason taught writing and directing at Vancouver Film School, and as a journalist, his work has appeared in Vancouver Magazine and Vue Weekly.
Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show "Murphy Brown" and writing and directing the 2008 feature film, "The Women".
Remix is a Danish 2008 feature film directed by Martin Hagbjer starring Micky Skeel Hansen as a 16-year-old pop singer Ruben.
 "Remix" is inspired by the true story of Danish pop idol Jon Gade Nørgaard known by the mononym Jon.
 Jon was also the subject of the documentary feature film "Solo" released in 2007.
 The film was released on January 25, 2008.
The Women is a 2008 American comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Diane English.
 The screenplay is an updated version of the George Cukor-directed 1939 film of the same name based on a 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce.
The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon.
 Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs.
 The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison.
 Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates (Florence Ungar and Olive Madison) in The Female Odd Couple.
 An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple.