The Facts of Life Spun off from Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life found the Drummonds' housekeeper Mrs.
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Mikey Facts of Life: Life is more fair than unfair.
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Hate to point out the facts of life but… oh fergetit.
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These were until very recently understood as basic facts of life.
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Their ongoing support shows they understand two basic facts of life.
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The Facts of Life may soon be making a return to television.
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Garrett in "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" -- has reportedly died.
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She doesn't know anything about the so-called facts of life, right?
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The film, in asserting that the facts of life must be the facts of life, and in attributing Wonder Woman's specialness to Zeus' power as a god, dismisses Marston's politics in order to tell a more conventional story.
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They're just facts of life in a country governed by Trump's Republican Party.
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Mother and daughter conferred only briefly and abruptly about such facts of life.
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Death, taxes, and winter are all inevitable facts of life outside the tropics.
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Always disciplined, referred to and taught about the facts of life in pairs.
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Nancy McKeon's Facts of Life costars are remembering her late brother Philip McKeon.
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Garrett on TV's "Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes," has died at 92.
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Terrorism and surveillance are treated both as facts of life and as vaporous abstractions.
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I loved "The Facts of Life," but I know it wasn't a great show.
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It felt like I was living in an episode of The Facts of Life.
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The basic facts of life in Rio, and Brazil in general, will still be true.
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George Clooney rocked a perfectly '80s mullet when he appeared on "The Facts of Life."
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The Facts of Life actress shared a touching 55th birthday tribute to Philip on Nov.
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My philosophy has always been that art has no business with the hard facts of life.
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The stars of The Facts of Life are coming back together, just in time for Christmas!
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But fantasy not grounded in actual social dynamics and the facts of life is merely escape.
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That night, her Facts of Life costars Kim Fields and Nancy McKeon gave speeches in her honor.
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New York (CNN Business)Data breaches and hacks have become facts of life in the 124st century.
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Garrett on "The Facts of Life" and "Diff&aposrent Strokes," died Sunday at the age of 92.
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Pittsburgh Steeler Antonio Brown and "Facts of Life" star Kim Fields each earned 19 points for their routines.
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As the hours roll by, the facts of life in the show's near-future Los Angeles remain vague.
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Khloe Kardashian is dishing out the facts of life on kids ... and truer words have never been spoken.
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Fans remember her as the adorable Tootie Ramsey on Diff'rent Strokes and later on The Facts of Life.
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How the 'Facts of Life' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star ended up in charge is pretty serendipitous.
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He spoke slowly, with a certain sombre attention, like a kindergarten teacher explaining the tragic facts of life.
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Don't argue with someone about their experience; they're reporting the vicious facts of life as lived by them.
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"He asked me if I was good," said Kerr, who appeared on The Facts of Life and Mama's Family.
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Garrett on 'The Facts of Life' and 'Diff'rent Strokes' died in her Los Angeles home surrounded by her family.
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All of these factors are basic facts of life, so we largely ignore their dramatic effects on athletic performance.
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Crime, violence and incarceration are facts of life, but no life can ever be the sum of such facts.
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" Comedian Larry Wilmore said," My first tv gig a millennium of moons ago was on The Facts of Life.
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Garrett on "The Facts of Life" and "Diff&aposrent Strokes," died Sunday at the age of 92, her publicist announced.
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"Facts of Life" Star Mindy Cohn Reveals Secret 5-Year Breast Cancer Battle, Plus Are J-Rod Moving in Together?
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The real horror Diop wants the audience to face doesn't come from anything supernatural, but from harsh facts of life.
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To the actress Laura Donnelly, growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles, these were simply facts of life.
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So Garrett's parents came to America in the '80s and they started watching "The Facts of Life" and thought Mrs.
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A source tells PEOPLE that the Facts of Life actress is struggling to come to terms with the unimaginable loss.
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In 2011, The Facts of Life cast reunited for the TV Land Awards, where she took home the Pop Icon award.
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" He composed the theme songs for the game show "Wheel of Fortune" and sitcoms "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts Of Life.
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Butterworth syrup commercial – leading to guest appearances on Good Times and then her run on the beloved The Facts of Life.
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You cannot shake up the world without treating what most people regard as facts of life as "problems to be solved".
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In Lawrence's paintings, ugliness and danger are inescapable — facts of life for black Americans in both the South and the North.
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Gaps in story lines were facts of life in a country where authorities believed "undesirable content" could corrode conservative Asian values.
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Fortunately, the former star of The Facts of Life knew the perfect actress: her real-life 23-year-old daughter, Clancy Cauble.
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One of the uncomfortable facts of life is that some countries — and within the U.S., some states — are more violent than others.
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"Trump will certainly have to adapt to his office and to some constraints, some realities and some facts of life," Barroso added.
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A child that age shouldn't be privy to the facts of life, but Anne has endured much more than the average girl.
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The show was an instant hit for NBC, running for eight seasons and spawning the equally-successful spinoff The Facts of Life.
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Among his work, The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes are some of the most memorable sitcom theme songs of their era.
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Tomboys, from Jo in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" to Jo on Norman Lear's 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life," are heroines.
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In Kurdish areas of Turkey, fear and destruction have returned as facts of life after government offensives leveled parts of rebellious cities.
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Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, her reps confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
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Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life — died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, her reps confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
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Unfortunately it seems there's a long way to go before everyone grasps the truth behind one of the most basic facts of life.
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In the clip, McKinnon, 34, sits down with three kids — Justine, Ricky, and Jillian — to walk them through the financial facts of life.
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Most residents have accepted the narrowing of the roads and roundabouts, the blocking of the views of iconic buildings, as facts of life.
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Macy's other TV credits include Seinfeld, St. Elsewhere, My Name Is Earl, The Love Boat, One Big Family and The Facts of Life.
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That spin-off became The Facts of Life, a sitcom about a girls' boarding school and their (once again) kooky and kind house mother.
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We can now look forward to new seasons of Murphy Brown, Daria, The Facts of Life, ALF... Honestly, there are too many to name.
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Creative editing and re-shoots prevented the Teletubbies audience from getting an unintentional tutorial on the facts of life, courtesy of the rabbits. 113.
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These family-unfriendly facts of life on the job do yank success further out of the reach of women who combine career and children.
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Family Matters, The Facts of Life, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air all frequently devoted episodes to topics that subdued their studio audiences.
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The judges think the Facts of Life star has the confidence and attitude but needs to work a bit more on the technical elements.
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He began his career with a show about teenagers, then helped get "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "The Facts of Life" onto the air.
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On "The Facts of Life," I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish — many ways of being female, and I'd feel quietly reassured.
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Let's see the math: Don't forget Pareto: 80 percent of returns come from 20 percent of startups Facts of life are that startups are hard.
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Former child stars Kim Fields ("Facts of Life") and Jodie Sweetin ("Full House") impressed the judges with their energy and power, scoring 20 points each.
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Centuries ago, myths were created about the stork's role in delivering babies, a tale that lets parents avoid discussing the facts of life with youngsters.
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Disenfranchisement and economic despair were facts of life for Chandler as he grew up in the poor, predominantly African-American town of Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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All that started to change in middle school, where social currency is made and spent and where cruelty and fear become daily facts of life.
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While shootings and bombings have become largely a thing of the past, the sectarian murals and lingering divisiveness remain facts of life in Northern Ireland.
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Conceptually, the album presents the listener with the unpleasant facts of life, set against the fume-choked backdrop of provincial Northern towns and decaying cities.
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"The Facts of Life," a spinoff of "Diff'rent Strokes ," aired on NBC from 1979-88, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the decade.
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The actress was married four times and has three children, including "Lord of the Rings" actor Sean Astin and "The Facts of Life" actor Mackenzie Astin.
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" Americans, he wrote, were now "required to think of our prosperity, our policy and our first principles as indivisibly connected with the facts of life everywhere.
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If we're going according to the world of Game of Thrones, however, the facts of life — and what can happen after it — get a little murkier.
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But I'm not going to dispense the inarguable and definite facts of life to a man so clearly possessed by the pursuit of an unreachable dream.
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Criminality and graft have come to be seen as such incontrovertible facts of life in India that, in my experience, people seldom mind discussing them openly.
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We'd had the boarding school of The Facts of Life (1979–1988) and the gifted kids on Head of the Class (1986–1991), but those were comedies.
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Kim Fields' performance for Monday's Dancing with the Stars "Most Memorable Year" week was a trip back in time – way back, to her Facts of Life days.
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Which means teams won't just be featuring actors from today but also from television shows past, like L.A. Law and Happy Days and The Facts of Life.
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But I can't shake the feeling that the little girl with the teddies is going to grow up pretty confused about some absolutely crucial facts of life.
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Kim Fields rose to fame as Tootie on The Facts of Life, experienced drama on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and is now going for the Mirrorball.
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Some suggested his obsession for the libidinous stemmed from his mother who had, the story goes, taught him the facts of life by buying him pornographic magazines.
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When Jo joined "The Facts of Life" in 1980 for its second season, she was among many tomboys on the big and small screen in that era.
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"We cannot fall into a trap of viewing the challenges the IRS faces as facts of life, but we must work together to solve them," he said.
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They numb players to one of the only certain and terrifying facts of life through mindless and repetitive reenactment, rewarding the player's triumph over death without real consideration.
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There are a few things that are just facts of life; death, taxes, Donald Trump saying something fucking insane, and Rolex being considered a top-tier luxury brand.
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Given that no one has the ability to sit Mr. Trump down and explain the facts of life to him, this does not bode well for the future.
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On the upcoming season of DWTS, Chmerkovskiy is paired with The Facts of Life star Nancy McKeon, while Johnson is coupled with Bachelorette favorite Joe "Grocery Store Joe" Amabile.
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In case you aren't familiar with Fields from her The Facts of Life days or RHOA, here are five things to help you get to know Fields, 46. 1.
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"The idea of foxtrotting to the Facts of Life theme song sounds like complete oil and water and yet it works incredibly well," Fields told PEOPLE before the show.
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Kim Fields honored her The Facts of Life days on Monday's Dancing with the Stars, but she actually had all three of her hit shows represented in the ballroom.
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Working title: The New Facts of Life The pitch: Divorced and with her kids moved out, Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel) ends up working as the housemother at Eastland School.
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"Last Monday, I found out I have bone cancer," the actress, who played the beloved Edna Garrett on Different Strokes and The Facts of Life, exclusively reveals to PEOPLE.
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Knowing how fighters regularly suffer career-altering injuries is one of the most depressing facts of life in the combat sports world and Garbrandt's back issues are no different.
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Even embodied by the resourceful Mr. Greenspan, a miming king is a wearisome thing, especially when he is required to explain the facts of life to his son via charades.
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Her character's popularity paved the way for the creation of "The Facts of Life" in which she offered motherly guidance to the young characters at an all-girl boarding school.
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After co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews announced that McKeon and Tinashe were both in jeopardy of elimination, it was the Facts of Life star that was sent home.
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In addition to playing the Solomon family's landlady on 3rd Rock, Wendel also made appearances on episodes of Seinfeld, General Hospital, The Facts of Life and The George Lopez Show.
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" Loring, who co-wrote the Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life theme songs with her late ex-husband, says that the Growing Pains star "remained consistent throughout his entire life.
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If we can't come to an agreement on the basic facts of life, how on earth can we come to an agreement on the fundamentals of a united path forward?
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"Art and Revolution" involved Mr. Brus cutting himself, urinating, defecating and masturbating while singing Austria's national anthem, in an outrageous effort to show the facts of life with no filters.
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The Facts of Life ran from 1979-1988 and followed a group of girls living at an all-female boarding school: Blair (Whelchel), Tootie (Fields), Natalie (Cohn) and Jo (McKeon).
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"Hidden Figures" takes us back to 1961, when racial segregation and workplace sexism were widely accepted facts of life and the word "computer" referred to a person, not a machine.
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After being disappointed by her scores last week (and competing despite an injury), the Facts of Life star, 46, wowed the judges with her performance to The Jackson 5's ABC.
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In addition to her Facts of Life costars Charlotte Rae and Julie Piekarski, Fields' The Real Housewives of Atlanta costar NeNe Leakes was also in the audience during Monday night's show.
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One of the saddest facts of life in the American workforce is that if you really want to stick it to the man, you just need to take your vacation days.
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The Facts of Life featured a character with cerebral palsy, and a 1971 All in the Family episode revolved around how working class Archie Bunker handles his macho drinking buddy's homosexuality.
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But many Americans wrongly perceive their country's democratic features as inviolable facts of life, she warned, when they are actually only as strong as the institutions and norms that uphold them.
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In her upcoming Christmas movie, You Light Up My Christmas, Fields will reunite with former Facts Of Life costars Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn and Nancy McKeon in the film, premiering Dec.
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"I was walking around my neighborhood in Los Angeles and I suddenly got so tired," says the actress best known for playing Natalie Green in the '80s sitcom The Facts of Life.
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George Clooney (a TV vet with earlier stints on Facts of Life and Roseanne) starred in 13 movies and won an Oscar in the five years after he left ER in 2000.
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"The Facts of Life," created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, was nominated for three Emmys over the course of its nine-year run, including lead actress in a comedy for Rae.
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Rand's novel called attention to very different facts of life in the Soviet empire: chronic meat shortages, inadequate housing, oppressed populations in revolt (including the recent Hungarian uprising, quashed by Soviet tanks).
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"My Facts of Life sisters, as executive producer, I was able to just call some folks," the actress told PEOPLE at the It's a Wonderful Lifetime Holiday Movie Press Junket on Tuesday.
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If anything, the perspective of Midsommar is almost anti-humanist: People find ways to make the crude facts of life, the violence of acts of birth, reproduction, and death, seem less awful.
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But as he scrapped, sued, and screamed in pursuit of a world in which pornography and outrageous language are accepted as facts of life, Flynt helped create precedents that are still with us.
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An episode of The Facts of Life was playing on the big-screen TV over the bathroom door behind which, back in 1977, the fresh body of loan shark Ruby Stein was dismembered.
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Poverty and rootlessness have become facts of life since the forces of Bashar Assad, Syria's president, began raining rockets down on Mr Hamama's hometown in northern Syria at the start of the war.
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You were loved by everyone on our show and you were loved by everyone on the facts of life will miss you 'My heart is full of Pain' Rest in peace my friend.
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Where they struggle is in conveying how it would feel to live a life so tightly entombed in cataclysm that manipulation and abuse become simple facts of life, not dark horrors to overcome.
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What she probably meant was that we'll talk about how Muslims are like prepubescent boys and must be taken aside to be told the facts of life and the true spirit of Islam.
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Mackenzie, 12, is very audibly still at home with his collection of rock albums, which he plays when not in his seventh grade classroom or on the set of NBC's The Facts of Life.
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You were loved by everyone on our show and you were loved by everyone on the facts of life will miss you "My heart is full of Pain" Rest in peace my friend pic.twitter.
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"Harassment, discrimination, anxiety and debt are facts of life for far too many young women today," Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, Britain's leading women's rights charity, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Incredibly, it's the first dramatic portrayal of the Massachusetts-born poet, though her work was been referenced heavily in everything from Jane Campion's The Piano to a 1980 episode of The Facts of Life.
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The novel models what it means for women to have a creative relationship to the dull and limited facts of life under patriarchy, to take life's disappointing material and make art out of it.
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It is a universe of in-betweenness, in which the most basic facts of life, the things we absolutely expect to understand, spill and scatter like toast crumbs into the gaps between the floorboards.
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She originated the role in 20093 on another situation comedy, "Diff'rent Strokes," and her character proved so popular that "The Facts of Life" was created as a spinoff for her, also on the NBC network.
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Estelle on "Seinfeld," Edna Garrett on "The Facts of Life," Marion Cunningham on "Happy Days" and Tanya Baxter on "That's So Raven" are just a few of the TV moms we're celebrating this Mother's Day!
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Our ninth justice should be one who can craft solutions to our 21st century legal problems that are based on the values embodied in the Constitution, not the facts of life of a bygone era.
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As the series went on, the show focused on a smaller group of four girls: Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo. The show lasted nine seasons and had a Facts of Life reunion on ABC in 2001.
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From early TV credits on Roseanne and Facts of Life to winning Oscars for Best Supporting Actor for Syriana (2005) and Best Picture for producing Argo (2012), Clooney and his accomplishments were highlighted during the salute.
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It's Latin week on Dancing with the Stars and dance pro has found some fun and surprising ways to make rehearsal interesting for his partner, Facts of Life and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Fields.
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In a recently released excerpt, Wilson writes about a particular day on the set during which she was just bursting at the seams to share a bit of newly gleaned knowledge regarding the facts of life.
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At the time, Philip was starring in the CBS sitcom Alice as Linda Lavin's tall and toothily handsome son Tommy, while Nancy was playing the tough-talking, street-smart Jo on NBC's The Facts of Life.
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These facts of life make imperative the holding of substantial foreign reserves, both to manage the exchange rates of the yuan against hard currencies, and to ensure hard currency-denominated settlements with trading partners and foreign investors.
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Born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky, she was best known for her role as beloved housemother Edna Garrett, who first appeared on "Diff&aposrent Strokes" in 1978 before earning her own spinoff, "The Facts of Life," the following year.
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One of the few facts of life that both adults and children can agree on is that fast food is comforting, and no other establishment in the world epitomizes fast food better than those famed golden arches.
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Some apologists claim that these types of racist practices, and the codes of silence that are required to perpetuate them, are the unsavory but necessary facts of life in maintaining law and order in the big city.
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Now if Sanders and others on the extreme left had their way, pipelines would be shut down, and everyone would stay home — or in the senator's case, presumably Washington, D.C. But the facts of life are different.
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Outbreaks are often abrupt and confined; in poor, rural areas, this may mean limited or no access to drugs that may otherwise be facts of life in more developed areas closer and better synced to the pharmaceutical system.
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Sadly, bag checks and metal detectors have become facts of life at many theaters and halls in recent years, and after the horrific attacks at the Bataclan in Paris last year and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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Ms. Rae said she had begged the producers of "The Facts of Life" to allow her character to "lose her temper, yell at the kids, let her be a human being," she told The Associated Press in 2015.
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THE FACTS OF LIFE — Gallery — Pictured: George Clooney as George Burnett (Photo by Frank Carroll/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - 1992: Actor Gerorge Clooney poses for a portrait in 1992 in Los Angeles, California.
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" Nancy McKeon and Val Chmerkovskiy You take the good, you take the bad -- you take them both, and there you might have McKeon, best known for her starring role in the 1980s hit series "The Facts of Life.
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The facts of life that they deal with everyday are sort of funny at the end of the day when you think about it—the fact that Jeff can't wrangle this enormous 'morgue' and that it's less organized.
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According to the "Diff'rent Strokes" and 'Facts of Life' star's death certificate, Rae's immediate cause of death is listed as cardiopulmonary arrest, while metabolic acidosis -- an abnormal acid buildup -- and carcinoma of the right parotid gland were contributing factors.
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What true-blooded American would turn down the opportunity to see a sprint relay team featuring both Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) and Billy Crystal (Soap), or Michael J. Fox (Family Ties) and Kim Fields (The Facts of Life)?
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She is best known for her role as housekeeper Edna Garrett, first on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" and then the spinoff "The Facts of Life," with both shows launching in the 1970s and running several years into the '80s.
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So even as the audience joins in the quasi-title tune at the end — halfheartedly, the night I saw it — it is not so much facing the facts of life as comforting itself with a prettified version of them.
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In addition to his on-screen credits, the actor was a composer on Diff'rent Strokes from 1978-1986 and The Facts of Life from 1979-1998 (he co-wrote the theme song with his ex-wife, soap actress Gloria Loring).
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Fields, 46, is the daughter of actress and singer Chip Fields, who enjoyed roles on Days of Our Lives, Good Times and The Amazing Spider-Mantv sgiw and appeared opposite her daughter on several episodes of The Facts of Life.
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These little egg-shaped doohickeys were originally from Japan, and taught children some important facts of life: Being a caring, nurturing person is a real hassle, and if you don't feed your pets they will grow angel wings and HAUNT YOU.
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A fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and BJ Penn would be no curse; it would be the cold, hard, inevitable facts of life and decay pounded at last into the brain and blood of a fighter too stubborn to recognize them.
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" Actress Kim Fields, who worked with Rae on "The Facts of Life," said on Twitter that "you all already know my heart is heavy yet.... sorry, no words at the moment just love and tears... and yeah, smiles.... #charlotterae #ripcharlotterae.
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But her death shocked me nonetheless, probably because that's what death tends to do in societies like ours, where one of the only two sure facts of life—we are born; we will die—isn't well integrated into our conscious experience.
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Future historians may see this as a clash between postmodernism and facts: the facts of life, namely sex and reproduction, on the one hand, and the idea that sex, or at least gender, is defined by thoughts and feelings rather than bodies.
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Rae earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1982 for her role as Edna Garrett on "The Facts of Life," a series built around young actresses Lisa Whelchel, Nancy McKeon, Kim Fields and Mindy Cohn but held together by show business veteran Rae.
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Brought to you in a new amped-up, faster-paced format sure to delight younger fans who would kill to see the cast of The Big Bang Theory racing in kayaks but who have no idea what The Facts of Life is.
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Deadline hears a reboot of "The Facts of Life" is in early stages at Sony Pictures TV, with Appian Way, the company run by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, in negotiations to produce the project alongside Jessica Biel via her Iron Ocean Films.
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Once-famous celebrities coming back to dance include "Fuller House" actress Jodie Sweetin; "The O.C." star Mischa Barton; actress Kim Fields, who starred in "Facts of Life" and "Living Single"; and singer Wanya Morris, a member of R&B group Boyz II Men.
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Again and again, fights over civil rights in America (for black people, for gay people) have turned into fights over the barest, basest facts of life—whether this person can copulate with that person, whether this person can use a certain bathroom.
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Thicke was a jack-of-all-television-trades, a convivial personality who did soap operas, game shows, sitcoms, had his own late night gig, wrote for the great Fernwood Tonight, and even penned the theme songs for Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life.
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The show often feels like a cornball sitcom, milking the indignities of old age for laughs and offering "aw"-inducing nuggets of wisdom — in this case Harry's adult version of the facts of life, which begins and might as well end with gas.
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Garrett on "The Facts of Life" and "Diff&aposrent Strokes," died Sunday at the age of 229, her publicist announced ... The actress passed away in her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, according to the publicist, who did not provide a cause of death.
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If there are two facts of life in the modern American city, they are that rent will be too damn high, and that attracting investment from a mega corporation will seem to some local power players like the best way to stave off economic disaster.
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I learned about the interior lives of teenage girls from The Facts of Life, and the interior lives of not-so-teenage women from The Golden Girls; I learned American family values from reruns of The Brady Bunch and new episodes of Growing Pains.
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"The Facts of Life Theme," Kim Fields and Sasha Farber Fields called her Most Memorable Year performance "a love letter to the fans" – and that's just what she gave in a foxtrot set to the theme song from the '22s sitcom that made her a star.
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The actress told Fox News last spring that she still stayed in touch with her family from "The Facts of Life," and that when Kim Fields, who played Tootie, was on ABC&aposs "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016, Rae was in the studio cheering her on.
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Obsessing over tactical minutiae; planning major life events around the fixture list; refusing to speak to their nearest and dearest for much of the weekend when their side loses; these things are par for the course for dedicated football fans, and mundane facts of life for everyone else.
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That isn't to say power should stay in the hands of old, rich white guys, but that even as the pool of leaders (in everything from entertainment to publishing to politics) has grown slightly more diverse, discrimination and bigotry remain everyday facts of life for millions of Americans.
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In many countries with economic development comparable to that of the United States, the programs Mr. Sanders has built his candidacy on are mundane facts of life: Universal health care, subsidized child care and guaranteed paid parental leave are all de rigueur in much of Europe, for example.
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In a city where affordable housing can mean paying as high as 80 percent of the market rate, perhaps it's not surprising that there was a disconnect between Lumley's vision for the bridge and the material facts of life for most Londoners, manifesting in a strange unreality, symptomatic of wider inequality.
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Glenn Padnick, the former president of Embassy Television (as Tandem was renamed), recalled how Mr. Burton engineered "The Facts of Life," about four teenagers at a girls' boarding school, as a spinoff from "Diff'rent Strokes," which followed the story of two African-American youngsters adopted by a rich white man.
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To those of us who have lived with certain grim realities our whole adult lives — the widening moat between the rich and the rest of us, the sclerotic influence of money on politics, the N.R.A.'s unassailable coalition of greed and fear — they seem like facts of life as unalterable as death itself.
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The filmmakers capture changes both abrupt (one of Gemma's friends is the victim of a sudden act of violence) and slow-simmering (as Gemma's relationship with Pat disintegrates) and emerge with a heartening portrait of resilience in a setting where parental abandonment and prison time are treated as regular facts of life.
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO, JESSICA BIEL IN TALKS TO REBOOT 'THE FACTS OF LIFE' "During these past years, it has been humbling to hear stories about how &aposThe Next Generation&apos brought people comfort, saw them through difficult periods in their lives or how the example of Jean-Luc inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, pursuing science, exploration and leadership," he wrote.
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During Tuesday's Fox News town hall — which took place a day after the US recorded its highest single-day death toll amid the coronavirus crisis so far — Trump rested his case for relaxing social distancing by comparing possible exposure to the coronavirus with unfortunate things that we just take to be facts of life, like the flu or car wrecks.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 20023 She was known to millions of Americans as Edna Garrett, a part she played on two shows: "Diff'rent Strokes," where she was the housekeeper to three children, one played by Gary Coleman, and "The Facts of Life," a spinoff in which she looked after a group of teenage girls at a private school.
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With all these catastrophic scenarios now daily facts of life, the specter of climate upheaval—long held forth as the urgent, and quite possibly final, imperative to overcome tribal political divisions and the human race's retrograde hoarding instincts—is acting as an accelerant of global conflict, plunging nationalist powers into a regressive rivalry to seize scarce resources and deny access to putative outsiders of all descriptions.
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But Adlon — an onscreen fixture since childhood, from Facts of Life to Grease 2 to Californication to Louis, and a voiceover standout on King of the Hill and more — was pessimistic when she pitched the autobiographical project to the brass at FX. "I didn't think that I could sustain a show," Pamela tells Refinery29's global editor-in-chief and co-founder Christene Barberich in this week's UnStyled podcast.
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Ultimately, the decision appears to have been motivated less by the jobs saved (a lot of those people would have found work elsewhere, in a business where cancellations and turnover are facts of life) than the simple fact that ABC was on the hook for a lot of money in salaries to the other stars -- an expense that would have been thrown away had the network completely washed its hands of the whole experiment.
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"On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood," Sinclair wrote, "and it would freeze solid; if you leaned against a pillar, you would freeze to that, and if you put your hand upon the blade of your knife, you would run a chance of leaving your skin on it…" Bitter cold and extreme heat are still facts of life on "the chain," a nickname for the disassembly line of carcasses that snakes through every big plant.
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It was announced on GMA Tuesday that Zee and Sweetin will be joined on the dance floor by The O.C.'s Mischa Barton, Denver Broncos linebacker (and recent Super Bowl MVP) Von Miller, TV news personality Geraldo Rivera, The Facts of Life and The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Fields, UFC Fighter Paige VanZant, Boyz II Men's Wanya Morris, former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, deaf America's Next Top Model winner Nyle DiMarco, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and actress (and ex-wife of Donald Trump) Marla Maples.
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Garrett on "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes," has died at age 92 THE LEAD STORY - A SUSPICIOUS BLACK SUV AND &aposHUNDREDS&apos OF LEADS - A black SUV was seen circling the Iowa neighborhood where Mollie Tibbetts was staying on the night she vanished , a neighbor revealed to FOX News, in what could be a new clue to the college student&aposs disappearance ... The driver went very slowly around the neighborhood the night of July 18, according to a young woman who lives a block away from the home of Tibbetts&apos boyfriend, Dalton Jack.
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