This was a lovely tribute, thanks again for posting! I wish Fiona's connection was better, but I'll take what we can get, I think this was during the early Covid years. LOL at her calling Rauch an overbearing male producer. The ladies all laughing after that is very telling at how popular he wasn't with them.
Seeing Simms, I didn't realize, or I forgot if y'all told me, that Roger/Mindy had such a close connection/storyline together. I only saw Mindy's last few months on the show and she never really interacted with Roger. That reminds me, Mindy's departure in 1995 was one of the first departures for me and it made me realize that GL just doesn't do a good job of sending characters off. She just left overnight and there was a throw away line that she went off to Europe (or something like that).
It was interesting to hear the ladies talk about when they first noticed his speech going (26:00 mark), which Fiona was first to notice. She thought maybe he was losing his hearing first, or then perhaps having a stroke. But it made me think back to Jenna's return in Dec 1996 and I just don't really remember Roger and Jenna having much interaction on the show then. Her return storyline was pretty siloed with Jenna/Buzz/Jeffrey and Harley/Phillip. Anyway, I wish Rauch would have listened to literally everyone and allowed Zaslow to stay and let Holly take care of him. The alternative was just recasting him and then shipping him out of town? What was the point.
I loved seeing Jerry pop in as a surprise. So sad to think he died a year later from this interview :( I wonder how close Jerry and Liz Keifer were in the years after GL was canceled.
Zaslow's daughter is very sweet. Is she Asian or was Zaslow's wife Asian? I tried to google and couldn't find anything, but I did read that his second daughter sadly passed in 2004 at 19 years old which was so sad to read too.
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