Don't forget to watch Grey's Anatomy on April 30th!
I've never watched it.
But Kellie Martin will appear on it that day!

By the way.
If you need a temporary moderator?
I might be able to fill in for a bit.
Until I find you a less busy potential moderator
from the group I moderate....the KMML.

The one thing you need is to trim your membership!
4/5ths of your members are (bouncing)
And thus their mailboxes are full and not in use anymore!
And then you need more Kellie updates like...

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And articles:

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"Life Goes On" Forever - And In Style
In the history of classic television, there are many shows that address the
issue of diversity and prejudice (e.g. All in the Family, Bewitched, The Golden
Girls). None, however, so directly tackle the topic more than Life Goes On. The
unique flavor of this series (which debuted on ABC in 1989, and remains popular
in syndicated reruns and on DVD) went straight to the heart of the American
public.

Life episodes about the disabled, disease seminars, and anti-gay-bashing have
done more to inform the viewing audience than current events. Issues are
genuine. High-school locker scenes are authentic. Family dinner sessions remain
true to, well, life.

When Life's parents Drew and Libby Thacher (played so wonderfull by Bill
Smitrovich and Patti Lupone) believe their son, Corky (the awesome Chris Burke),
is out of line, they reprimand him. If this was any other television program,
such behavior would be par for the course.

But that's not the way Life goes. Corky has Down's Syndrome (as does Burke in
real life), and is a high-school student with a challenging life. Corky's
younger sister, Becca (played by the ever-capable Kellie Martin, who went on to
star in the Hallymark Channel's hit, Mystery Woman then falls in love with Jesse
(the Emmy-winning Chad Lowe), who is HIV-Positive, and later develops AIDS.

Down's and AIDS: traits certainly unusual for weekly characters on television, a
medium infamously circumspect of figures that viewers find jarring.

Still, Life was legitimate from the onset. Corky's particular adjustments are
presented as filaments in the functional family component. He was unveiled to
viewers without affectation or manufactured uplift. The series never set out to
beat the viewer over the head with the idea that Corky was saccharine. The
portrayal of the character was realistic, based upon his legitimate condition
and feelings, not ideally, on what he should have said or how he should have
behaved. It would have been irresponsible to make him either too distressed or
too unaffected.

In 1991, as Magic Johnson revealed in real life that he was HIV-positive, Chad
Lowe's Jesse contacted the virus. Life imitated life?

No. Just a parallel incident.

Yet after Life creator/executive producer Michael Braverman interviewed small
focus groups and discovered that many teens thought AIDS could be contacted
through casual interaction, he set out to dispel that ignorance, as well the
scorn aimed at those like Jesse and Corky.

Diversity and the respect for other peoples' truths was explored on other Life
avenues.

In an episode from the third season, Corky's father, Drew, who owns and operates
a successful restaurant, finds his hopes and dreams up in smoke. His enterprise
is destroyed by fire shortly after the birth of his new child. Wife Libby
wonders how she can help in the crisis. Jerry Berkson (Ray Buktenica), her
usually greedy advertising boss, pays to rebuild the Thacher house.

At once grateful and surprised, Libby asks Jerry, who is Jewish, to be godfather
to her son at a Catholic baptismal. Jerry declines. Libby reminds him of a note
that he thought he anonymously delivered with the money to reconstruct the
restaurant. It reads: "Generosity of spirit is the measure of a man."

Jerry to the ceremony, vicissitude and munificence are held in mutual regard,
and a television show, once pegged a failure by some, files itself as a classic.

Once misunderstood, those with Down's and AIDS are now perceived more clearly
because of Life. "It's nothing short of a miracle," Braverman once said about
the show's influence. Burke has become a spokesman for the National Down
Syndrome Congress and Ronald McDonald Charities. He has received numerous awards
from various organizations, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting
Actor In A Drama. He's still a favorite feature on the talk show circuit, and in
several anti-drug commercials, and in travels the college circuit with a rock
band.
A few TV seasons back, he joined the cast of the CBS hit, Touched By An Angel,
playing, what else: a heavenly messenger.

In this 21st Century, Burke and Life's diverse eye on the family remains
wide-open. Setting the standard for quality television programming, Life Goes On
has found its place as one of the most popular American family shows in history
(right beside The Waltons).

Life continues to inspire viewers, and reaches beyond the realm of average
entertainment with superior production values and credible, yet compelling,
universal stories, each delivered with a sincere dedication in presenting good
television.

Life goes on to say more than, "I'm okay, you're okay." It affirms: "I'm great
and so are you. And though we may be unique unto each, together aren't we
grand."


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