Just about everybody loves the recently departed wrestling great Randy “Macho Man” Savage. A lot of covers from Superman spin-off comics for Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are featured. The premise behind Superdickery is that they post vintage (and sometimes recent) covers from Superman comics that further prove that everyone’s favorite blue-and-red-clad boy-scout is actually not a very considerate fellow. Some of you who are into internet memes might be familiar with the site. Here are some recent Tumblr pages that I’ve come across, thought I’d share… Superman is a dick! UPDATE: Check out this video of the cast of The Facts of Lifereuniting on Good Morning America last year, one night after being honored at the TV Land awards. We wish her congratulations and best wishes on this special day! Ford on the “I Heart Mom” episode of Life.”Ĭurrently in good health and in remission from a recent bout with pancreatic cancer, Charlotte Rae is hopefully living comfortably wherever she is today. On Februshe appeared in a small role as Mrs. In the 2008 movie You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Rae has a role as an older woman who has a fling with Adam Sandler’s character. In 2007, she appeared in a cabaret show at the Plush Room in San Francisco for several performances. In 2000, she starred as Berthe in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Pippin. She appeared in The Vagina Monologues off-Broadway. “In 1973 Rae played the role of Southern Comfort in Terrence McNally’s spoof Whiskey at Saint Clements’ Theatre off-Broadway. Edna Garrett wants you to sample her edibles.Īs for her other roles, I’ll let Wikipedia tell it… Garrett, she helped transform the girls to women on the show and even branched out into small business ownership, putting the girls to work at her baked goods sweatshop quaint bakery “Edna’s Edibles” ( pun not intended) and appearing in two made-for-TV Facts of Life movies: The Facts of Life Goes To Paris (1982) and returning years later for The Facts of Life Reunion (2001). Garrett with the girls from The Facts of LifeĬharlotte Rae left The Facts of Life in 1986, her starring role subsequently picked up by fellow acting veteran Cloris Leachman. She even sang a few bars of the original Facts of Life theme song! Garrett found a way into our homes and lives on a weekly basis. Whether it was fixing chocolate cake for Arnold & Willis (none for Kimberly, thanks, as we would later find out why!) or keeping the Blair, Jo, Natalie, a roller-skating brace-faced Tootie and even a young Molly Ringwald in line at Eastland School for Girls, Mrs. Garrett, she dispensed wisecracks and sagely advice to the kids on both shows, and by extension to all of us children of the 80’s who grew up watching both shows in either first run or in syndication. Garrett, the first of many maids on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes"Īs Mrs. Garrett for seven more seasons on The Facts of Life (1979-1986), which was the spin-off of Diffrent Strokes featuring Charlotte Rae in the starring role. Garrett, the maid to the Drummond family on the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes from 1978-79. Edna Garrett on not just one, but TWO successful TV sitcoms! She played as Mrs. She is an accomplished singer, comedienne, dancer and actress of both stage and screen with a career spanning six decades on television. Let's take a look at what happened to the rest of the cast, what they're up to now, and what the show has meant to them.Charlotte Rae turns 86 years of age today. While actors like Rae, Cloris Leachman, and Alex Rocco have sadly left us, many of the show's stars remain active today. More than four decades have passed since the show's premiere, but "The Facts of Life" remains a true classic, with talks of reboots having circulated in recent years and a temporary revival via ABC's "Live in Front of a Studio Audience" series. By Season 2, the girls were pared down from seven to a core four, and all the other adults in the room were pushed out to give Rae her spotlight back. The show had its own growing pains in Season 1, with a huge cast of characters being squeezed into just 30 minutes of airtime per episode. Initially, critics weren't too kind to "The Facts of Life." Tom Shales of The Washington Post called it a "formula for mediocrity," but audiences embraced the show and its themes of adolescent growing pains, making it a bona fide hit.
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