Cousin Geri is a lesbian?

Wasn't she the, er, "Special" one?

Is she out? I never knew she was gay.

OP, you thought the cane was for her CP?

Wow. It's too bad it wasn't known then. It would have made for a very very special episode: Blair's ashamed of her cousin Geri for being a lesbian and ? (can't recall what was wrong with her.)

Speaking of "special" was Mrs. Garrett a drunk or taking pills? She always seemed "off".

She wrote a book R2.

"Indeed, the double meaning of the title: I'm Walking As Straight As I Can, refers both to Jewell's sexuality and to her extraordinary struggles growing up with cerebral palsy."

She was also in Deadwood, which was filled with lesbians - Kim Dickens and the woman who played Jane.

Oh I am so getting this. I'm betting there won't be too much FOL dirt but she was fired from the show so maybe she carries a grudge. Fingers crossed!

So Cousin Geri, Nellie Oleson - what other supporting cast member from classic TV needs to write a memoir? I vote for Beverly "Iola" Archer from MAMA'S FAMILY. I would LOVE to hear her Vicki-Lawrence-is-a-cunt stories - and any scoop on Bubba's bulge.

Her shaky, twitchy fingers must have made many gals happy.

Charlotte Rae was extremely mean and cold to Geri on the set of 'Facts'

She says she was hooked on coke at one point too. Can you imagine having CP and doing coke?

Charlotte Rae wasn't warm to any of the girls imo.

Mindy Cohn was on a show the other day, and the interviewer brought up Charlotte Rae. And Mindy was polite, and seemed non-committal in her responses.

But when Cloris Leachman's name came up, Mindy's eyes lit up and said she LOVES Cloris and considers Cloris her acting mentor.

Hmmm.

R11, A guy with less severe C.P. said the meds enhanced the coke and helped him focus. The only problem was you had to come down.

It would've been a much more interesting show had the charcters reflected the actresses lives. A cold, detatched Mrs. Garrett, the girls dealing with weight issues, Natalie's promiscuity, Blair's fundamentalism, Geri's lesbianism...

I really want Mindy Cohn to work more.

Agreed. She had Wendy Sperber tragedy written all over her. People will miss her when she's gone.

Do you think Cousin Geri sampled Edna's Edibles?

Geri Jewell and Charlotte Rae discuss their tensions on the set

Charlotte and Geri later made up with a hot finger fucking session!

Mindy Cohn is a sweetheart and hilarious. I hung out with her one night in a gay bar in Weho.

Thanx, r19. Somebody always explains the situation in these threads but the explanation just doesn't seem to stick. Maybe now that it's been corroborated by actual tv footage it will be acknowledged as factual. Things just don't happen unless they're on tv.

I'm jealous, r21! Which bar? I'd love to hang with her - I bet she'd be a hoot.

Remember Mickey's? Mindy was there with a few friends, as was I, and we talked at the bar. She's really funny. No Facts of Life gossip, alas, and I would have felt awkward asking her.

I'm surprised to hear that Mindy was so enamored of Cloris Leachman, since Cloris really, really dislikes overweight people and is not shy about expressing that opinion.

Mindy should play Elizabeth Edwards in the inevitable Lifetime Original Movie.

Boy, that Kim Fields had some large hooters.

WEHT the Lisa Whelchel Troll? I miss you, LWT!

I think Mindy was just cast on some ABC Family pilot. Her career seems to be picking up. I'm too lazy to search for a link.

If only Bonnie Mace were still around.

The photo of Geri Jewell on the book cover was a surprise -- when she is quiet and holds still, she no longer looks like...well, Geri.

Geri's explanation about the tension between her and Charlotte seems sincere and insightful. She doesn't seem to bear a grudge, she's just being honest.%0D %0D Charlotte Rae, on the other hand, is being a total bitch about it. "Well, I guess it's HER problem"

R13 here

The show I was referring to was Totally Tracked Down. Both Cloris & Charlotte were interviewed about Mindy (Separately)

Charlotte was pretty reserved about talking about Mindy. But at one point admitted that when Mindy was a teen, she gave her a book on Masturbation to boost her morale!

Didn't Rae keep her distance from all the young actresses on the show? Maybe Jewell felt mistakenly singled out for her disability when really she was just experiencing the same thing as all the other girls.

Joan Collins is a BITCH!

thanks R35. %0D %0D I worked at a paint your own ceramic store in the 90s in Los Angeles and Mindy Cohn worked there for a while too. Very nice and she didn't talk about 'Facts of Life' often, but I do recall her telling a postivie story about Cloris Leachman during the 'Facts of Life Goes to Paris' trip.

"Mindy Cohn is a sweetheart and hilarious. I hung out with her one night in a gay bar in Weho."

Mindy Cohn seems like she would be the perfect archetype for a fag hag. The absolutely perfect archetype, I say!

Geri was fabulous.

Show would keep my skate key in her private parts so I wouldn't lose it.

I love Geri. With her around I saved countless pennies on batteries for my vibrators.

[QUOTE] but I do recall her telling a positive story about Cloris Leachman during the 'Facts of Life Goes to Paris' trip.

That's funny because Cloris Leachman wasn't on the show when the girls went to Paris. You're thinking of the Australian movie, where Tootie befriends a koala bear.

I could never stand Geri whatsherface.

It's JEWELL, r41. A pioneer in the rights of the disabled on tv, and don't you forget it!

So what about Jo...Nancy McKeon. Is she confirmed gay?

Poor Nancy -- she's a dykey-looking straight girl. They usually hate lesbians more than anyone else.

Her brother Tommy on 'Alice' was allowed to go on a solo camping trip with his gay scout master, so she may be more liberal than you know.

Lisa and Geri lived together for awhile in LA.

Wonder if Lisa ever let Geri go down on her.

[quote]So what about Jo...Nancy McKeon. Is she confirmed gay?

I've posted here before about Nancy. My sister knows her. She lives with her husband and kids outside of Austin TX. Her husband works on the set of Friday Night Lights. (Maybe that's past tense now? I don't know if they finished production.) Nancy's kids are about my nieces' age, so that's how my sister knows her. She seems like a regular wife/mother, and my sister doesn't think she's a lesbian.

She still acts a little bit. She plays the mother on that Demi Lovato show, although I don't know if it's still on know that Demi is all fucked up.

Even when I was a kid I knew she was gay, same with Jodie.

"Is she out? I never knew she was gay."

I mean, really! How could anyone not think she was either asexual or lesbo? Even without that cane, Cousin Geri is the very epitome of the cane-faced lesbian in facial structure & voice!

Well, she won't need to use a vibrator.

I didn't know Mindy was on "What Not To Wear":

The Enquirer is reporting that Lisa is avoiding Geri's calls/emails!

Didn't Nancy have some critically acclaimed show on lifetime or some such network in the late 90s or early 2000s? I remember liking the show and thinking she came off very well in interviews. There was some thing where they did a where are they now to promote their new projects and they all came off as distant except for Nancy and Mindy

Is Mindy gay?

R48 - the trifecta of child star ping: Nancy, Jodie & Kristy McNichol.

I suppose the new standard wod be Kristin Stewart.

Hot dyke

I never saw Deadwood

Too bad the name of her autobiography wasn't "I Have Cerebral Palsy AND I'm Drunk".

Cousin Tardy, ah Geri should get down on her pervert knees and thank the lord that Rae would even allow her to be in the same studio as her.

Charlotte was always spoken highly by the Diff'rent Strokes folks. Only Lezzies and fatsos were upset by her.

I wonder what her pussy looks like.

Oh, R59, because the opinions of the Diff'rent Strokes cast would be of importance? Gary, Todd and Dana?

Bitch please.

Geri Jewell did say Charlotte Rae was COLD to her on the set of Facts of Life.

Geri is a cunt

Charlotte Rae had a severely autistic son who was institutionalized (her gay ex-husband was the father), and it's possible Geri reminded her of him.

Charlotte Rae is freaking hilarious on Car 54. Check out the episode A Star is born in the Bronx or 142 Tickets on the Aisle.

[quote]Wonder if Lisa ever let Geri go down on her.

It would've been like getting eaten out by a washing machine on the spin cycle.

You know, of all the Facts of Life girls who turned out to be a lez, Geri wouldn't even have been my third guess.

Any pics of Geri's pussy?

When is the Geri Jewell comeback happening?

She was all jerky from the static shocks she got while munching carpet

In her book she mentioned being walked in on having lesbian sex by Lisa Whelchel while they were roommates.