No one can match the Golden Girls for this reason…

Stan also revealed something the four female stars of The Golden Girls did which actors in Hollywood seldom do; thank the writers and credit them in interviews. Stan said: “And I have to say and thank those four ladies because they went and talked about the writers, pretty much every talk show. They always complimented us as writers. And you don’t usually see that. And so I’m forever grateful for that.”

And, contrary to popular belief, the actresses never did ad-libs on the show! A lot of times, Stan says fans think certain scenes were ad-libbed, with the actresses coming up with things on the spot, but that was not the case.
Stan recalls: “Season one, they said every word, every comma, every period. They said what we wrote.”

Zimmerman wrote about his enthralling experiences with The Golden Girls and more in his book The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore. Within its pages, he details his experiences with some of TV biggest women, including the four Golden Girls, Roseanne, Lauren Graham, Lily Tomlin, and more!

He is currently touring with his play ‘Right Before I Go‘, a poignant story inspired by a close friend’s suicide 13 years earlier.

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