"Geri Jewell, who I'm proud to have cast in The Facts of Life, and who has been a great inspiration to me. He said, 'You'll be hearing from me really soon, kid.' Three months later, he called me with the cousin Jeri episode, and I filmed it two weeks before Christmas that year." Lear and Jewell have remained close, with Lear even giving her a shout-out in his 2014 memoir, Even This I Get to Experience. "I got a standing ovation, and I ran into Norman in the elevator. "That particular night, Norman was in the audience," Jewell tells Yahoo TV. Jewell had been cast by producer Lear, who saw her perform at the Media Access Awards in Los Angeles in 1980.
FACTS OF LIFE CAST SERIES
Comedienne Jewell became the first performer with a disability to have a regular role on a primetime series when she made her first appearance in Season 2's "Cousin Geri," playing Blair's cousin who has cerebral palsy. "Norman Lear, who didn't want his name on the show, probably netted out about $30 million in his personal bank account for not wanting that show to exist," Tartikoff told the New York Times in 1988.Ĥ.
The show was not an immediate hit, however, and when NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff decided to give it another chance and order additional episodes, he had to convince the show's very successful producer to stick with the series. The Facts of Life was spun off from Diff'rent Strokes when the Drummond family's housekeeper, Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), took a new job at the all-girls Eastland prep school.
Garrett, Yahoo TV talked to Facts stars Lisa Whelchel and Geri Jewell and gathered up a slew of Facts facts that are sure to relaunch your love of all things Eastland.ġ. To get you in the mood for the sometimes goofy, sometimes "very special episode"-y teen angst antics of Blair, Jo, Natalie, Tootie, cousin Jeri, and their surrogate mama Mrs. And thanks to Shout! Factory's new The Facts of Life: The Complete Series DVD box set, we have the chance to relive all nine seasons of the 1979-88 comedy. The extreme 1980s fashions, the rollerskates, the iconic theme song you know all the words to… for many of us, The Facts of Life was a key part of our childhood viewing experience.
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