Though they'll forever be preserved in the amber of syndication and on DVD, child stars grow up too. Take a trip down memory lane right through the present day at Snakkle, which has assembled the gallery "Hold On to Your Scrunchies! See Where Your Fave '80s Sitcom Siblings Are Today." Catch up with (the first) Becky from Roseanne (Alicia Goranson), Growing Pains' Ben Seaver (Jeremy Miller), Family Ties' Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and...
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Denise Richards' Wild Things character is starting to look rather sane by comparison. In a statement to TV's Extra, Charlie Sheen calls his ex-wife's latest round of court-paper allegations — which, in part, regurgitate the Two and a Half Men's star's predilection for online porn — "unlawful and diabolical," and says she's keepin' on with the crazy largely out of spite for his disclosing her request for his sperm to sire another child. "I will not dignify the majority of these allegations... with any measure of response," Sheen says. "On its best day, it remains laughable and inane" — like Hot Shots! Part Deux.... Family Ties alumna Tina Yothers gave birth to her and husband Robert Kaiser's second child, a son named Jake, says People.
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Barry Manilow has agreed to keep performing at the Las Vegas Hilton through 2008, the hotel has announced. In related news, Paris Hilton will continue performing wherever and whenever she is allowed to.... Michael Madsen and Daryl Hannah will walk the beat in the indie thriller Vice, about a squad of cops who start looking mighty suspicious when a passel of drugs go missing, the Hollywood Reporter says.... Rumor has it that among the D-listers trying to lose enough weight to get back on the C-list on the next cycle of Celebrity Fit Club will be none other than Family Ties moppet Tina Yothers.... A Harley-Davidson Night Rod has been cast as the titular vampire slayer's preferred mode of transportation in Spike TV's upcoming series adaptation of Blade, premiering June 28.
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Question: I was talking about this with my girlfriend and could swear I read somewhere that Family Ties was originally supposed to be about the parents but ended up being about the kids when they become popular. Truth or urban legend? Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Answer: Not only is it true, Peter, it was foreshadowed by Michael Gross, who played man of the house Steven Keaton, though he probably didn't know it at the time. In 1982, while shooting an episode of the series in which Keaton kids Alex (Michael J. Fox), Mallory (Justine Bateman) and Jennifer (Tina Yothers) run amok when Steven and wife Elyse (Meredith Baxter Birney) are away, the actor engaged in a bit of unintentional soothsaying. "Maybe after several episodes, Meredith and I will die, and then the series could really take off," he joked to TV Guide. "We could be kille
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