DramatistDreamer

To be honest, this ET article featuring Jane Fonda's remarks on Moonves aren't all that insightful but it's interesting because I remember reading (and posting) that Fonda's best selling workout videos were produced by Lorimar, the company that Moonves was CEO at before ascending the ranks at Warner Brothers (which incorporated Lorimar) and then CBS. Then again, it seems as though Fonda might have had little to no direct encounters with the man. Jane Fonda on Leslie Moonves’ Ouster: ‘This Is Only the Beginning’

I never thought it was her, lol.

Do folks still believe she's staying on CBS? That sounds like a sign off from someone that doesn't see their future at CBS.

Julia Salazar won her primary, lol. Whew, she had a messy campaign season!

I came across this episode in which the recently departed Susan Brown was featured as part of the cast.

Many of these men were also board appointees that were installed by Moonves himself.

I've decided to no longer speculate about the identity of the actress because I feel as if there are details that may not be completely accurate, either through confusion as the story has been passed along over decades or deliberately so as to conceal the identity of the actress. Either way, I feel as though this narrative is very convoluted, either deliberately or in the gradual retelling over several years. So according to the NYT article: Threats and Deception, Moonves informed legal counsel looking into the allegations on behalf of the board that there "might have been a few incidents before he came to CBS." Well, Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb was from Lorimar. I wonder how many other "incidents" happened while he was there?

No problem. I don't think it's sidetracking the conversation at all. In fact, it draws into sharp relief Moonves' career trajectory on how these production studio outfits work. They are rarely relegated to one network.

Another interesting fact, Lorimar produced those best-selling Jane Fonda videos.

According to Wikipedia, Lorimar produced Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. I don't think Moonves arrived at Lorimar until the mid 80s though. By the way, Lorimar became a subsidiary of Warner Brothers in the early/mid 90s and Moonves ran the television division.

Hunter was produced by Lorimar, which is where Moonves was president before he went to CBS. Lorimar also produced Full House, which was on ABC. Moonves greenlit Full House.

I'm not 100% sure it's Kramer (how can anyone be, with the list of wronged women in the Moonves universe?) but doesn't it seem like she disappeared? It's easy to forget but the show was pretty big in its day and Kramer was a star back then (I hate to use the word sex symbol) on a highly rated primetime show. Back when you could actually have a hit primetime show on a Saturday night. The fact that there are so many bonafide candidates for the victim's identity just speaks to how profligate Moonves is. The fact that he's been at it since the beginning of his career as an executive is truly abhorrent.

I mentioned Kramer previously in this thread when I read that article in The New Yorker last month. Someone posted that article in this thread about a month ago. Any way you put it, policewoman or detective Kramer literally played both on Hunter. And the show was produced by Lorimar, I believe. No matter who the victim was, Moonves was/is a disgusting person.

But Murder She Wrote also had at least three subsequent T.V. movies that ran into the early '00s.

This is adorable.

Technically Angela Landsbury's character was not a detective. She was a writer who also happened to solve mysteries. I still think it was Stepfanie Kramer. She was a police detective who wore plainclothes for most of the series.

Now??! They should've always been. All the signs were there that this was classically Russian neuro/chemical attack. The hallmarks are all there but because the U.S. now has a Russian-compromised government at the highest levels, the signs were ignored. It was more convenient to blame and cut emerging ties with the Cubans. There are scientists who've been saying that Russians have been using sonic waves since the late 70s. Also, I am aghast that all that water was sitting on a tarmac in P.R. when people were literally dying of thirst! Beyond unacceptable.

Yeah, anyone who saw that segment online or on TV, it seems like they are preparing for Chen's imminent departure from The Talk. Like I said, I don't know about Big Brother but I don't see how anyone can think she'd be staying on a daytime talk show that is targeted toward a female audience and in the #MeToo era. Especially seeing as she's used the show to defend her husband's actions and make questionable statements against his perceived would-be adversaries. Here is a somewhat interesting (and thankfully relatively brief) assessment of Moonves' rise and fall at CBS. People should be aware that his atrocious predator behavior predates his career at CBS. I'm still curious about the actress that he victimized while at Lorimar (apparently he stuck oil career-wise because of his greenlighting Full House). Les Moonves Put CBS on Top. Then It All Came Crashing Down.

ICYMI, Trump is a genuine, dyed in the wool sociopath.

Trevor Noah does an interesting take on the situation in the most Trevor Noah way.

There seems to be quite a bit of AW's episodes being posted lately too. It looks like there is a lot of ATWT uploaded to You Tube but in reality, there are many duplicate and incomplete episodes posted. There are quite a number of key episodes missing: 1). critical resolutions to some of the show's most popular murder mysteries (just about every entertaining murder mystery of the 1980s and 1990s). 2). Kim's fraught labor (which literally took place around Labor Day Weekend 1986) where Casey Peretti helped to delivery Bob and Kim's son Christopher (at the same time Craig and Sierra were literally making a baby, unbeknownst to them). 3). What happened after Bob walks into the house where Beau Farrell's crazy sister was lying in wait for him? (It was strike material but still...)