Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The comedian had previously been declared cancer-free in 2017. Monica Schipper/Getty Images Actor and comedian Mindy Cohn announced on Sunday that her cancer ...

The leading ladies of "The Facts of Life," including Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon, Mindy Cohn, and Lisa Whelchel, look gorgeous decades after the show wrapped.

(Clockwise from left): Kim Fields as Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey, Nancy McKeon as Joanna 'Jo' Marie Polniaczek, Mindy Cohn as Natalie Letisha Sage Green, Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett, and Lisa ...

The Facts of Life – the hit television show that became a staple of NBC's lineup in the 1980s – was a female-centric spinoff of another popular sitcom, Diff’rent Strokes. It ran for nine seasons and ...

“The Facts of Life” was a beloved sitcom that ran on NBC from 1979 to 1988. Featuring a colorful cast of characters, the show’s setting was Eastland School, a fictional boarding school in Peekskill, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Aug 24, 2025, 01:42pm EDT THE FACTS OF LIFE — Pictured: (clockwise from ...

Originally conceived as a spinoff of Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life now stands on its own as a hilarious, female-centric ensemble comedy, with Charlotte Rae reprising her role as Mrs. Edna ...

Mindy Cohn called one of her “Facts of Life” co-stars a “greedy bitch” while blaming the unnamed actor for sabotaging a revival of the popular ’80s sitcom. “We got into talks and we hired a writer.

"You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have... the facts of life, the facts of life." If you're a child of the 1980s, those words, the first lines in a theme song ...

While Fields would love to check in on her characters Tootie and Regine, she worries that if revivals "don't get it right, you are messing with people's beloved characters" Amanda Taheri is an ...

Jennifer McHugh is a Los Angeles-based writer. She refuses to binge-watch anything. Two of the biggest sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s, Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life, will be ...