Meredith Baxter-related stories
Posted Feb 7th 2008 1:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show

From
The Today Show,
for the first time in 18 years, the entire cast of
Family Ties got together to reminisce and talk about the show. Actually they got together to help series creator Gary David Goldberg plug his new book
Sit, Ubu, Sit, a memoir of his life and times. I grew up in the '80s and this show was a huge part of my growing up. My parents were liberal hippies, just like the Keaton parents. And while I had nothing in common with really any of the kids, I found myself drawn into their familial world anyway.
The entire group still looks great, and I wondered if it would be possible to do a
Family Ties reunion. The most obvious hurdle would be Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease. Even in this interview, it was difficult to see him struggling with it, so I would imagine it would be nearly impossible for him to hide it.
Continue reading Family Ties reunion on Today
Posted Mar 30th 2007 9:41PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities
Brian Bonsall, who played Andrew, the youngest Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties, was arrested in Boulder, Colorado for assaulting his girlfriend. She told police that he threw an alcoholic drink in her face while she was asleep, choked her, and threw her onto a bed. Bonsall says it was all in self-defense, because she cut him with a steak knife.
"Well it's like we've been together, for a million years..."
This isn't the first time Bonsall has been in trouble with the police. In 2001 he was convicted of drunk driving, and in 2004 he was arrested for the same offense.
If you didn't watch Family Ties, Bonsall played Worf's son on Star Trek: The Next Generation and starred in the movie Blank Check.
Posted Jun 26th 2006 1:15PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD

Can I tell you what kind of a 7 year-old I was? Besides watching cartoons and action shows and
The Brady Bunch, in 1972 I also loved a little romantic comedy called
Bridget Loves Bernie.
The short-lived Meredith Baxter and David Birney CBS show (yup, they later got married in real life and she became Baxter-Birney) is
coming to DVD on September 5. It will be a three DVD set.
It was a rather daring comedy at the time because it was about a Jewish cab driver who falls in love with a Catholic schoolteacher. I don't know if I understood any of that in 1972, but I remember liking this show a lot for some reason, so I think I'm going to get the DVDs.