Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls, Roseanne & Brady Bunch Movie Writer — Stan Zimmerman

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by TV & film screenwriter, Stan Zimmerman! Zimmerman chats about his career writing on THE GOLDEN GIRLS, ROSEANNE, GILMORE GIRLS, THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE (and its Sequel!). Topics: staying closeted while writing The Golden Girls, RuPaul, Estelle Getty, Madonna's voicemails for Sandra Bernhard, Roseanne & Tom Arnold, loving THE L WORD & more!

Stan's book: The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore

IG: @jessxnyc

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and my next guest is a prolific
0:19.2	television and film writer having worked on the Golden Girls, Roseanne, Gilmore Girls, and
0:25.4	written both of the Brady Bunch movies among so many other projects.
0:30.0	He's the author of the new memoir, The Girls,
0:33.0	from Golden to Gilmore, stories about all
0:35.8	of the wonderful women I worked with, and Roseanne.
0:39.2	He said that beautifully.
0:40.7	I couldn't have directed you better in that you got the job
0:44.3	Stan Zimmerman and also the asterisk the asterisk and rozan is
0:48.3	well it's dot dot dot yeah so there was a big fight about that because I wanted Anne Rosanna on the cover and I think my publishers were a little weary of what she might do and I'm like bring it on baby.
1:01.0	What is she going to do? What is she going to do exactly? Help sell more books maybe. on her
1:03.6	baby. What is she gonna do exactly so help sell more books maybe.
1:04.4	Have you on her podcast? I I've thought about pursuing that. I would be
1:10.3	slightly scared but I would love to hear her side of what it was like when I was
1:17.0	on the original Roseanne. I want to go like kind of on chapter by chapter of your life.
1:22.8	Oh my God.
1:24.2	You better start pouring the vodka now.
1:26.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:27.4	The sort of the tent poles.
1:29.4	Oh my God.
1:30.4	A lot of tests.
1:31.8	I want to say this. I love how you structure the book you've kept a diary since you were a kid and
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