I think the Maureen's death episodes of The Locher Room illustrate Locher's strengths and weaknesses. The Parker/Sloan/Kinkead/Brown interview was real and it provided some insight and information. Sloan and Parker did not need or want protected. Curlee and Demorest were also honest. The JFP interview was fine for what is, but it was PR spin because he was constantly trying to soften whatever decision she had made or change the subject because she did want to be protected or forgiven.  

12 hours ago, chrisml said:

The JFP interview was fine for what is, but it was PR spin because he was constantly trying to soften whatever decision she had made or change the subject because she did want to be protected or forgiven.  

Or forgiven, yeah, right, AS IF.

18 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Edit to add: I meant to say didn't RH do a way OTT story about Delia & a gorilla? Makes me wonder if Reilly wrote that. I think I'll ask Tom Lisanti if he knows.

Tom did know but it was, hard to believe but so, Claire Labine writing it. It's called the Prince Albert storyline. I guess that is marginally better than saying 'Delia with a gorilla.'

1 hour ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Tom did know but it was, hard to believe but so, Claire Labine writing it. It's called the Prince Albert storyline. I guess that is marginally better than saying 'Delia with a gorilla.'

I thought I remembered Labine had written that storyline, but I wasn't sure.

Reva's portrait story was under Lloyd Gold/Chris Dunn as head writers but we don't know if they hatched it or a CBS exec.  The clone story was under Brown/Estensen but revealed in articles at the time that it was conceived by CBS exec Wendy Fischman.  

4 minutes ago, VelekaCarruthers said:

Reva's portrait story was under Lloyd Gold/Chris Dunn as head writers but we don't know if they hatched it or a CBS exec.  The clone story was under Brown/Estensen but revealed in articles at the time that it was conceived by CBS exec Wendy Fischman.  

Thanks for that. Yesterday I couldn't think of the name Fischman. 

On 1/25/2025 at 2:57 PM, Mitch64 said:

Sorry, this website is always so glitchey with me...anyone else? What I wanted to say was the the Clone did come to catch the trend of "outrageous" storytelling, but there were a lot of factors...Kimmer was hot to play a twin storyline and lobbied to play what would be Cassie...the first introduction of face tape for Zimmer. Even with that they knew they could not get by with Zimmer playing it, so they begin looking around for ways to get her in a twin storyline (which is Emmy bait for the idiots who vote for the Emmys) and the Clone hit all the checks...keep Kimmer happy...Reva and Josh front and center in between bringing Annie back..and ramp up attention.

Good grief....did KZ really think she needed emmy bait? When did she never not have emmy material handed to her on a silver platter?

14 hours ago, P.J. said:

Good grief....did KZ really think she needed emmy bait? When did she never not have emmy material handed to her on a silver platter?

I don't know if she specifically wanted it for Emmy bait..though she did want to do a "twin" story..and since the dummies in daytime automatically rave over a double story I made that assumption. 

I think it would have been much better all around and make much more sense for Reva to have a split...she basically did when she was both the ugh..Queen and then as Rebecca. I think Zimmer would have done well with it..(but what would Reva's split be...a mousy librarian who didn't like attention or sex??)

33 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

(but what would Reva's split be...a mousy librarian who didn't like attention or sex??)

Geneva, president of Marah and Shayne's PTA.

11 minutes ago, Franko said:

Geneva, president of Marah and Shayne's PTA.

Now that sounds like a thing she could get a handle on!

If Reva had had a twin, it would've been a nun.

Nun Reva would've burnt down any church she entered, that's a fact.

I thought it was interesting that Grant Aleksander (in an interview with Alan Locher) called Kim Zimmer the "star" of the show but Jerry Ver Down the "heart." I thought that was telling. 

 

5 minutes ago, chrisml said:

I thought it was interesting that Grant Aleksander (in an interview with Alan Locher) called Kim Zimmer the "star" of the show but Jerry Ver Down the "heart." I thought that was telling. 

Jerry was their union rep!

In looking for other things, I came across Michael Zaslow writing about getting sick and having to talk to Paul Rauch about it. I had forgotten that Zaslow and Rauch had worked together on OLTL as well. Zaslow's comments are interesting about Rauch and in relation to what later happened re: Zaslow's departure.