Guiding Light Discussion Thread

[chrisml]

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.  

[Contessa Donatella]

Or forgiven, yeah, right, AS IF.

[Contessa Donatella]

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.'

[Mona Kane Croft]

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

[VelekaCarruthers]

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.  

[Contessa Donatella]

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

[P.J.]

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?

[Mitch64]

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??)

[Franko]

Geneva, president of Marah and Shayne's PTA.

[Contessa Donatella]

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

[Khan]

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

[P.J.]

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

[chrisml]

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. 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

Jerry was their union rep!

[chrisml]

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. 

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