Remington Steele with Stephanie Zimbalist – Part One

11/23/22 • 61 min

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Susan and Sharon sit down with a true show business icon and classic 80’s TV Lady -- “Remington Steele’s” one-and-only Laura Holt -- Stephanie Zimbalist.
In a career spanning six decades, Stephanie has performed on stage and screen with everyone from Alec Baldwin, Walter Matthau, Jessica Tandy, Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Patricia Neal, Alfred Molina, Tommy Tune, Jimmy Stewart AND her own father, the legendary Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
The Conversation...
- Growing up Zimbalist: what it’s like to be born into a true show business dynasty.
- How Stephanie started writing, directing and producing – at the age of seven.
- How she attended Julliard with friends and classmates Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve -- and then got kicked out!
- Winning – or not winning – an “Enema” (oh wait -- “Emmy”)
- A Life in the Theater: performing award-winning roles in classic plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and more.
- The gift of making “big choices” on stage – and screen. And the pleasure of refining and reinventing a performance over a long run.
- Playing Katherine Hepburn in “Tea at Five” – and how she discovered they’re cousins!
Turning down the role of Laura Holt three times before finally taking it on.
- “Backwards and in High Heels” – on water skis! Stephanie takes us through doing her own stunts on “Remington Steele” -- and working with legendary stuntwoman Debbie Evans.
Join Susan and Sharon (and Stephanie) as we talk fame, fedoras – and wet-biking in France with Pierce.
PLUS -- MORE listener mail!!
AUDIO-OGRAPHY
Native Land Digital - https://native-land.ca/
LAist on Land Acknowledgment - https://laist.com/news/what-to-know-about-land-acknowledgment
Stephanie Zimbalist - https://www.instagram.com/stephaniezimbalist_net/
http://www.stephaniezimbalist.net
Steele Watching Podcast - w/ Kerry Carlock https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steele-watching/id1509551051
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Writing Remington Steele with Robin Bernheim, Part Two

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But did they?
Join Part Two of our interview with TV writer/producer Robin Bernheim, to discover the complicated answer to the burning question: Did Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan get along while filming “Remington Steele”?
The Conversation:
- Laura vs. Remington: Who got the most screen-time? Who got to drive the car? And whose show was it, anyway?
- How did a writing staff of mostly men handle writing a female voice?
- An episode where Laura Holt poses nude?? The script, Stephanie Zimbalist’s reaction – and the re-writes that followed...
- Being “one of the boys” with Michael Gleason and Brad Kern: vodka, cigars... and barfing.
- Writing Quantum Leap -- and the good (and bad) side of working for producer Donald Bellisario.
- Writing and producing “The Princess Switch” -- with three versions of Vanessa Hudgens!
Along the way we talk about watching “Moonlighting”, “The Boys”, “Silicon Valley” and “Murphy Brown”; writing “Star Trek” and “When Calls The Heart”; and how one very dedicated fan took a favorite line of Robin’s – and had it tattooed on her arm!
Join Susan and Sharon as we get Robin to explain about thriving in the writer’s room, pitching from the Ladies Room and what to do when Pierce Brosnan calls you “Boo”!
PLUS – fan shoutouts, fan mail and fan love from all over the world for our own “80’s TV Ladies”!
AUDIO-OGRAPHY
For Fan Fiction of Remington Steele and other TV shows:
Fanfiction.net
ArchiveOfOurOwn.org
Book:
Steel Loved After All These Years: A Remington Steele Retrospective by Judith A. Moose
On Abe Books: https://www.abebooks.com/9781593930981/Steele-Loved-After-Years-Remington-1593930984/plp
Look on eBay for a bargain. https://www.ebay.com/itm/265353913608
8TL Fan ShoutOuts - Thank you, Fans!
Marie K.
Jesse B.
BizzyLizzy1605
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Remington Steele with Stephanie Zimbalist – Part Two

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Steele Talking: Susan and Sharon continue their interview with award-winning stage, TV and film actress Stephanie Zimbalist who created the 80s iconic character, Laura Holt...
THE CONVERSATION
- Working with her real-life dad – showbiz legend Efrem Zimbalist Jr – How he became a father figure for co-star Pierce Brosnan. (And how he taught Stephanie the secret to “playing drunk”...!)
- Her decades-long friendship with Alec Baldwin.
- When James Stewart was almost on Remington!
- The Amazing Remington Steele Guest Stars, including...
- Paul Reiser – and how Pierce broke up every time he said a line.
- Louie Anderson – and that horse...
- And Beverly Garland – Laura’s mom! (Wait -- were Laura Holt and Amanda King sisters??)
- How she was cast in – but had to quit – ROBOCOP.
- Why she has never gone back to rewatch “Remington Steele.”
- Why “the blood isn’t real on “Remington Steele” -- and how humor on TV has changed...
- How curiosity leads to love.
- New York, noodles – and a “rude awakening” in the theater...
Listen in as Susan, Sharon and Stephanie talk “Moonlighting”, memories and Mary Tyler Moore!
AUDIO-OGRAPHY
Stephanie Zimbalist Fan Page on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/StephanieZimbalistFanPage
Renegade women in film and tv – by Elizabeth Weitzman and illustrated by Austen Claire Clements
Hardcover:
https://amzn.to/3VEmK9h
Kindle:
https://amzn.to/3VNiOD0
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