in 1969 for Melody Maker, reviewed the Doors again in 1971 for New Musical Express, and she wrote about the increasing number of women in hard rock for Billboard, calling out Grace Slick, the Ace of Cups and Fanny, among others. For Melody Maker in 1972 she talked to Helen Reddy about "I Am Woman", and to John Prine about his Diamonds in the Rough album. In 1974 she wrote about Neil Sedaka's UK popularity for Melody Maker. She reviewed concerts by Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, the Band, Leon Russell, and wrote about a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker. She profiled Neil Young and James Taylor. Other interviews she conducted were with Delaney & Bonnie, Smokey Robinson, Ry Cooder, producer Terry Melcher of the Byrds, Maria Muldaur, the American Breed, Robert Plant, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, singer Brenton Wood, composer Tim Hardin, protest singer Phil Ochs, English rocker Arthur Brown, Gram Parsons, Arlo Guthrie, Elton John, the Four Seasons, Rod McKuen, Johnny Mathis, Jethro Tull, Dennis Wilson, Leonard Cohen and the Jackson 5. She also wrote for the Los Angeles Free Press, starting with an interview with director Robert Altman discussing his 1970 film M*A*S*H. Atlas wrote articles based on interviews with actors Mae West and George C. Scott, and an investigative piece about the backstory of the 1974 film Chinatown: the California water wars. For Film Comment in 1975, she interviewed Mel Brooks. Atlas was the film critic for the Free Press in the mid-1970s. She interviewed Goldie Hawn for Parents magazine in 1978. She contributed reviews to Ampersand college entertainment magazine. In 1989 through Dutton, Atlas published a fiction novel, Palace of Light, with characters placed within union politics in the early years of Hollywood. In 1994, she wrote A Century of Women, published through TBS Books as a companion to the Turner Broadcasting System television series of the same name. Television Atlas first worked in the television industry as a research assistant to Rona Barrett on Good Morning America in 1976. She was hired by NBC News, rising to spend five years as senior producer on the Today show. In October 1990, Atlas co-founded VU Productions with Pat Mitchell, to create non-fiction content for Gary David Goldberg's Ubu Productions. In 1991 for VU Productions, Atlas co-wrote with Mitchell the screenplay for Danger: Kids at Work, a TV movie starring Amy Irving. Under