Meta Rosenberg

Meta Rosenberg, Emmy-winning executive producer of the durable television series "The Rockford Files," talent agent and exhibited photographer, has died. She was 89. Rosenberg died Dec. 30 in her sleep of unspecified causes at her Beverly Hills home. Actor James Garner, one of Rosenberg's clients, brought her into producing in her late 50s when he asked her to work with him on "The Rockford Files." They created a hit series, starring Garner as a private eye, that ran on NBC from 1974 to 1980.

Meta Rosenberg, Emmy-winning executive producer of the durable television series "The Rockford Files," talent agent and exhibited photographer, has died. She was 89. Rosenberg died Dec. 30 in her sleep of unspecified causes at her Beverly Hills home. Actor James Garner, one of Rosenberg's clients, brought her into producing in her late 50s when he asked her to work with him on "The Rockford Files." They created a hit series, starring Garner as a private eye, that ran on NBC from 1974 to 1980.

Each day, Meta Rosenberg goes to the ocean to walk, to breathe in and otherwise absorb what she can no longer see. The former director/executive producer of "The Rockford Files" says she feels no bitterness about becoming blind, for it is her sight--not beauty--that is slipping away from her. For the past three years, macular degeneration has claimed her vision.

Each day, Meta Rosenberg goes to the ocean to walk, to breathe in and otherwise absorb what she can no longer see. The former director/executive producer of "The Rockford Files" says she feels no bitterness about becoming blind, for it is her sight--not beauty--that is slipping away from her. For the past three years, macular degeneration has claimed her vision.

Rosenfield wrote that "there were no female high-stakes agents . . . no role models" for Sue Mengers in the 1960s and '70s? I give you Audrey Wood, Kay Brown, Eleanor Kilgallen, Monique James, Helen Harvey, Meta Rosenberg, Edith Van Cleve, Jane Deacy and the late great Jane Oliver--to name but a few. Mengers was not, by a long shot, "the first female to play hardball in the Boys' Club." As far as "all the energies go into somebody else's Oscar"--isn't that the job? MARGARET HENDERSON Henderson/Hogan Agency Beverly Hills