 ", "Match Game" and "To Tell the Truth" and a perennial guest of Johnny Carson on NBC's "The Tonight Show".She also guested as Elaine, the mother of Melissa (played by Melanie Mayron) on the 1980s television series "Thirtysomething".Newman created the role of Renée Buchanan on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live" and was a regular on the primetime series "100 Centre Street" and the NBC satirical series "That Was The Week That Was".