Can anyone find evidence ("reliable sources" in Wikipedia parlance) that the producers of the show thought of Lilith when naming this character? As in "a first wife who turned into a minor demon". It is rather hard to imagine they would not have known the mythology when naming this character. Might warrant a mention in this article if sources can be found.
Extra points for deciphering the meaning, if any, of the last name "Sternin". 85.76.41.21 (talk) 16:02, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
- Writer-producer Cheri Steinkellner connected Lilith Sternin to the mythic Lilith in an interview published by the Hollywood Reporter in 2018:
We named her Lilith for Adam’s first wife, who comes from the same earth he does. She’s his shadow — not bad, just dark and misinterpreted. We named her Sternin for our friends, Prudence Fraser and Robert Sternin, who co-created The Nanny.
- Though a 2015 blogpost by writer Ken Levine claimed to copy a Facebook post by Cheri Steinkellner stating that Lilith Sternin had no connection to the mythic Lilith.
Cheri Steinkellner was gracious enough to answer the question on Facebook, but I wanted to share it with all of you. So here it is:
Last name first, Billy and I named her Sternin as a pairing for Frasier in honor of our old "Who's The Boss?" writing buddies, Rob Sternin and Prudence Frasier (they went on to co-create "The Nanny").
We wanted a first name to go with it that embodied stern-ness […] "Lilith" was the sternest, least-nonsense, comb-mark-counting-est name we could find. The Biblical badass didn't factor in. It just sounded right to our ears and made us laugh.
- My cursory Google search using the search terms
site:facebook.com "The Biblical badass" did not turn up a Facebook post or comment by Cheri Steinkellner corroborating Levine's blog post, though I don't know how well Google indexes Facebook.
- Lovelano (talk) 19:03, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
