FROM CLONING TO CASHMERE

Peter Hermann, the fellow who can proudly say he performed daytime's first cloning on Guiding Light (well, if you don't count stories that get cloned over and over and over again -- whether they were a hit the first time around or not), will be featured in Cashmere Mafia, an ABC show coming next year from Sex & The City creator Darren Star.

Hermann played Dr. Michael Burke, the scientist who convinced a grieving Josh to clone his beloved Reva (Kim Zimmer(s); above) in 1997.

In real-life, Hermann is married to Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay (who did a soap stint of her own on primetime's Falcon Crest). They have a son, August, who appears in those milk ads with his mom.