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Wow. What an interesting nod to history.

She isn't a perfect choice, but I'd choose Nina Tassler.

Yep. I don't blame her either. Even as we're outing sexual predators left and right, women still live in fear of having their careers, reputations and even lives ruined simply by coming forward with the truth.

I had a feeling that letter would contain a sexual harassment allegation. Unfortunately, Brett Kavanaugh could murder a black Baptist preacher in the middle of town on a hot afternoon, and he would still get confirmed by the GOP. But, I hope no one brushes aside this woman's allegation, because where there's one, there's always more. IOW: party at marceline's pad, seven o'clock, B.Y.O.B.

I agree. And if they don't, then I am officially done with CBS. I won't pretend to gaf about her. You want to stand by your man, Julie? Fine. Take your man, and your money, and get the [!@#$%^&*] out.

It's like what we always say about voters, especially those on the left and far-left, engaging in some ridiculous "purity Olympics" (tm @marceline?). No candidate, I have learned, will ever be perfect. But picking off every candidate with even the slightest flaw is what got us where we are now w/ Trump.

I wish Bernie and his contingent would stop trying to make their revolution happen. It's not going to happen.

I wouldn't expect any less from Les' highly paid mistress.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........

IOW, he'd fit right in (again) with the current soap climate. "Travis Schuldt IN at DAYS!"

"Yeah, there were deaths, but there weren't THAT many!" There is so much wrong with that line of thinking that I don't know where to begin. (ANY deaths, whether three or three thousand, is a blow, okay? Especially when those deaths could, and probably should, have been avoided.) But, what do you expect from a "leader" who tossed the citizens of Puerto Rico a roll of paper towels as if it were a cleanup on aisle four?

It seems to me that Les (and Jeff Fager) isn't the only person who needs to be purged from CBS' ranks.

Thanks, YRfan, for uploading the 1975 episode! It was certainly a treat!

It doesn't surprise me one bit to know he tried to buy the woman's silence with a job offer. Anything to keep their mouths shut, right, Les? You know, the more I read about this mess, the more it reminds me of the late James Aubrey, a.k.a. "The Smiling Cobra," who once ran CBS (and MGM), and was just as predatory toward females as Moonves has been.

Good God, what a mess.

D'oh! I forgot about "Judging Amy"! Thanks, Carl! It might well have been Kramer or Gless, but there's so much vague and conflicting information that we might never know. (Either way: Angie, baby, I'm-a need you to come ouchere and set this record straight that it wasn't you, lol.)

You know what's also sad about this? We read the excerpts and several of our minds said "Sharon Gless" and NOT "Tyne Daly." Now what does THAT say about us, boys and girls, lol? LMAO! I'm fine, thank you! That was part of it (officially, anyway). I also recall hearing at the time that Kramer wanted to focus more on music. In retrospect, however, all that might have been just smokescreen.

Here's why I'm not sure it's Sharon Gless: 1) As I've mentioned before, "Cagney & Lacey" was done (save for the four TV movies) by the end of the 1987-88 season, long before Moonves took over the network; and the way LBT words it -- "coming off the cancellation of her iconic detective show" -- it sounds as if the series in question was cancelled either during Moonves' regime, or immediately before. 2) Gless starred in one other series that I know of -- "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" -- that ran on CBS after C&L. However, Rosie was an attorney, not a detective (or a cop); and it, too, was already dead-and-gone by the time Moonves arrived at CBS, in '95. However, it'd make sense to assume it was Gless, since C&L was and is an iconic show; and it and DW once shared the same night (Monday) at the network. No, it wasn't. Moonves wasn't at CBS when Barney Rosenzweig replaced Meg Foster with Sharon Gless -- who, by the way, had been his original choice for the role from the start, going all the way back to the original, two-hour TV movie -- nor was he at Orion/MGM, which owned the show. AFAIK, Moonves was still at 20th Century Television. Remember, though, that "Hunter" was on a different network (NBC); and in fact, it wasn't cancelled until the year AFTER Kramer had left the series (remember when GL's Robert Newman played her new husband, who spirited her out of town and away from the force?) and had been replaced as Fred Dryer's sidekick with Darlanne Fluegel (and later, "The Nanny"'s Lauren Lane). And to this day, I've no idea WHY Moonves would allow that to happen -- unless, not doing so would have resulted in enormous penalties for the network -- when he was so eager to kill the series by moving it from Sundays, where it was still a top 10 series, to Thursdays, where it was killed in the ratings by "Friends."

I think that's how I would feel as well. There must come a point for some people (who aren't "MAGAts") when you just get sick of the drama -- and from the start, it seems like that's all we've gotten from him and his administration, too. You know it's bad when people like Bannon, McMaster, Scaramucci, Spicer and Tillerson all seem like relics of a previous administration.

Maybe, but C&L went off the air in '88. Remember when the media would tout all the women Les Moonves promoted within the network? Now I wonder what those poor ladies had to do to GET promoted.

"Did Les Moonves assault Angela Lansbury?" Angela Lansbury is a treasure on BOTH sides of the Atlantic. If he did, indeed, assault her, then he just might be the sickest bastard alive. He deserves nothing less than to be left broke and on the side of the road.

IKR? Reading the article just made me love (and miss) "Designing Women" and Julia Sugarbaker all the more. At first, I wasn't up for rebooting that particular show. However, now that I've read her piece, I've almost changed my mind. LBT deserved better treatment, as did everyone affected by Moonves; and we deserve to have her unique voice back on the air. Agree. Jeffrey Lane was SO not the person to develop or produce a show for the likes of Bette. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (or even Diane English) would have been a far better match.

From Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's article: Soon, I would hear how he had invited a famous actress to lunch in the CBS dining room. Coming off the cancellation of her iconic detective show, the star began pitching a new one. He informed her that she was too old to be on his network. She began to cry and stood up to go. He stood up too, taking her by the shoulders and telling her, “I can’t let you leave like this.” She reacted, suddenly touched. Then he shoved his tongue down her throat. I know this happened because the star is the person who told me. Please tell me that was not Angela Lansbury.

You know, I'm-a have to go with Carl: as much as I would LOVE to see the GOP lose control of the Senate (and the House), I just don't see it happening. What's more, I think the media is gonna keep up with stories like this because (again, as Carl would say) they want the narrative to be that the GOP pulls a surprising upset in the midterms, crushing the Democrats hard, and giving them (meaning, of course, the media) more "oooooooh, look at what the big, bad bullies in the GOP are up to NOW" stories over which to salivate.

At one time, AMC was reportedly the most videotaped series on TV.