Cutie Pa-Tootie

Believe it or not, there are some Hollywood execs who still haven't gotten over their childhood crushes on The Facts of Life's Tootie. "I had one executive that was so excited to meet me because when he was 15 he wanted to do Tootie," recalls 31-year-old former sitcom star Kim Fields on Child Stars: Their Story, an upcoming two-hour A&E documentary (Sept. 4, 9 pm/ET). "He [couldn't] get past the fact that I was that ? that I've evolved as a person, as an actor, as an artist."

Fields, who runs a production company and occasionally acts (she was a regular on Fox's Living Single and is slated to make a cameo in ABC's forthcoming Facts of Life reunion movie), grows teary-eyed recalling the moment when she realized that her days as a child star were over: "They got what they needed from me," she says. "Those are very tough pills to swallow when you are a young person."

Among others featured in the special:

- Former child star Bill Mumy (Lost in Space) recalls the terrifying words said to him on the set of Alfred Hitchcock Presents by the imposing late director: "If you don't stop moving about I am going to get a nail and I'm going to nail your feet to the mark and the blood will come pouring out like milk."

- Former Witness kid Lukas Haas says he was more amused than terrified when director Frank LaLoggia tried to intimidate him into crying on the set of 1988's Lady in White: "He took this picture of my mom and came into my trailer and started ripping it up and saying, 'Your mom is dead; how does that make you feel?' I was sitting there about to crack up. It seemed so dumb. It made it much harder to cry because it was so ridiculous."

- Ex- Partridge Family moptop Danny Bonaduce has had his share of ups and downs, but says being a child star wasn't all bad: "I was short, fat, with red hair and freckles, and I took two cheerleaders to the prom! I had a golf cart at 10! Life was wonderful!"