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Thursday, 03 December 2009 09:00 |
Meredith Baxter Admit to World She's Gay; World Sheepishly Admits to Having Forgot Meredith Baxter
 Hollywood, California: Meredith Baxter, star of 1980s sitcom Family Ties, might have said to the world ‘I’m gay,’ but exclusive to The Daily Mirror is the story of how the world completely forgot who she was.
‘We were at this little affair, a party out in Palm Springs’ said the world,’ and we saw this woman heading toward us. Blonde hair. You could tell she was good looking once upon a time, and we knew we had met her before, my wife and I, but for the life of us, we just couldn’t place her. So we immediately turned toward each other and started going through the alphabet. A, B, C, D…When we got to M, we knew that was either the first or last name. Margaret? Mary? No, it was something different. Not an ordinary name.’
With Ms. Baxter and her consort drawing close, Mr. And Mrs. World went from nervous to frantic. ‘It’s always embarrassing, isn’t it,’ asked the world. ‘I always say to my wife, if we ever meet someone on the street or at a party and I don’t introduce you, it’s because I’ve forgotten their name. Just introduce yourself. But this time it wasn’t going to work because we knew we had both met her before.
‘I think what threw us,’ said the wife, ‘is that she had a girl on her arm, and it looked very much like they were a couple. We knew she had been married before, had kids, so we just didn’t put it together.
There was a moment of tension as introductions were made and it seemed that the world would have to admit to having forgotten her name. That was till Ms. Baxter’s lady friend finally gave it away. ‘Meredith,’ she said, ‘I can use a drink,’ and for the world the light went on. ‘Okay, so we had the name’ said the world, ‘but we still couldn’t name the show she was on. My wife was thinking Kojak and I seemed to have some recollection of seeing her on The Ken Berry Wow Show. It wasn’t till afterwards that we found out she was the mother on Family Ties, but in our defense, you’re talking twenty-something years ago. Besides, that was eighties,’ said the world ‘and I was doing a lot of crack back then.’
It was unknown if Ms. Baxter’s lady friend ever got that drink she so badly wanted, the world saying it had to leave early to get up for a six a.m. shoot.
In a related story, while gay rights groups are lionizing Ms. Baxter for coming out at the age of 62, other factions are calling it a cheap attempt for publicity by a fading actress. Amongst those in the vociferous opposition is Valerie Harper, television’s Rhoda who is also the current land-speed record holder for a septuagenarian sitcom actress. Though having suffered a fractured jaw (see article dated Dec. 2) it was in a statement made through her agent that Ms. Harper decried Ms. Baxter’s mad grab for attention. ‘So she’s sleeping with a woman,’ said Ms. Harper. ‘Big deal. Let her strap a rocket to her ass like I did and then maybe the world wouldn’t forget her so quickly.’
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