Over the weekend, Janet Jackson performed at the Essence Fest, and she was reunited with an old friend Kim Fields. Both women share the same mom. How? Chip Fields is Kim’s biological mother, and she played Janet’s mom on Good Times in three unforgettable episodes in 1977. Chip’s character physically abused Jackson’s.
Not only did they share that connection, but Fields also guest-starred on two episodes of the sitcom.
So, they obviously have a connection. Therefore, as soon as they saw each other, it was like no time has passed for the two actresses who have known each other for 45 years. And neither woman looks close to being old enough to have known someone for that long.
Kim Fields has been acting for 45 years. Therefore, you would think that she wouldn’t still get excited by stuff like new actors do when they see their names and faces in lights for the first time. You would be wrong.
The actress is in NYC and saw a moving poster for her show, The Upshaws, on Netflix in the middle of Manhattan. “I wish I could fully express this surreal stunned joy to be a girl from Harlem and see yourself on a Times Square billboard,” The Facts of Life star wrote. “This is my 3rd time and my mind body and spirit are yet again blown awayyyyyyyyyyyyy.🙌🏽”
Seriously, her reaction was so cute; all I could see was the little girl we got to know with braces who wore pigtails and got around on rollerskates. She might be a little older, but moments like this turn her into Tootie.
Before Nancy McKeon was playing softball on The Facts of Life, she was doing it for Best Foods Mayonaise. She looks the same now as she did when she was 12 in that 1979 commercial.
Tonight at 8p on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear are doing another Live In Front of a Studio Audience. This time around, they are doing Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life with actors in their 40s, 50s, and a 61-year old playing the lead roles that originally were played by minors.
That got a lot of people wondering why they didn’t just use the original actresses since Kim Fields and Jennifer Aniston are the same age. I mean, I would love to see Lisa Whelchel, Nancy McKeon, Fields, and Mindy Cohn reprise the roles that made them famous over Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Gabrielle Union, and Allison Tolman.
While the OGs might not be playing their characters again, it looks at least Cohn, who played Natalie Green, will be part of it. That is because she shared a photo of herself with Kevin Hart, who is starring as Arnold Jackson in the Diff’rent Strokes recreation, from what looks like the set.
What part will Cohn and possibly her former co-stars play in the special? I think they will just make an appearance before a commercial break like Good Times’ BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie Walker, and the late Ja’net DuBois did when they recreated their sitcom.
Back in the early ’70s, kids loved Eve Plumb as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch. Then at the end of it, we got to know Mindy Cohn on The Facts of Life. However, their two characters were never to meet.
But in real life, the two actresses met and are now friends who are “falling on the streets.” Who else besides me wants to fall on the streets with them?
Now, can we talk about how great Plumb, 63, and Cohn, 55, look for the ages? So much so, I am wondering what it would’ve been like if one of the Brady girls went to Eastland Academy? Jo would’ve given them a lesson that even Mike and Carol Brady would not be able to handle.
