One of S.J. Perelman's classic, comic
feuilletons (as he styled them), titled
Oh, I Am a Cook and a Houseboy Bland was inspired by a columnist's item about the Millars, in which they described their daily writing routine, taking place in separate wings of their house:
'I'm a morning person,' says Mrs Millar, 'He's an afternoon person.''We occasionally meet on the stairs,' says Mr Millar.
Perelman's sardonic piece, told from the point of view of their 'Annamite houseman', portrayed a pair of vainglorious and mutually suspicious hacks.