What next--Jodie Sweetin is a meth addict?

Wasn't she Meredith Baxter Birney at one point? What does this say about David Birney?

(But seriously, Meredith. Congrats on her late life awakening and I hope you have lots of lesbic joy.

Saw David Birney on 42nd St. last summer. Not lookin' good, he has surgery that looks like it was done in Mexico. Thought "Family Ties" sucked, "Bridget Loves Bernie" was better.

Always loved her. She's made some great TV movies of the week.

I remember her from the 70'S TV show called Family.
Forgot she did 80's show Family Ties after that.

Kristy McNichol played her sister in Family, Wonder if they are still in touch

Hell, I remember Meredith from her appearance as a runaway on The Partridge Family, when she had very long brown hair. I could tell even then, decades before she herself knew!

Kristy's an even bigger dyke than she is,

She appeared nude in the 90's movie My Breast , about breast cancer . Check the scene at the doctor's office making a breast exam. Last week I watched this movie via internet television ( LoggTV.com ) Wow and she is really hot. I loved this woman.

no wonder the character of nancy on "family" was always such a twat, she was miserable! of course, adding kristy to the mix, maybe it was something that kate put in her casseroles?

Meredith is in her sixties but says she only realized she is a dyke seven years ago, after four failed marriages (including fully 15 years with David Birney) and now she lives with a diesel dyke contractor. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. With this kind of inner knowledge, Dick Cheney may decide he is a transsexual after all. How difficult is it to decide you prefer muff diving and hair pie eating to dick? Tell us Miss Musto you big ol' dyke you!

Didn't a similar thing happen to whats her name--the Nancy Grace type on that channel?

I am pretty sure she has always been a supporter of LGBT rights and has even played a supportive mother of a gay son in some movie.

Meredith couldn't come out on "Family Ties" because that would have grievously offended her conservative son played by Michael J. Fox.

Always a good actress; better than most of the parts she played.

Hope "Ellen" books her son; they should have fun.

Shit! "Books her SOON."
Although her son might be a nice addition.

I wrote a novel about a woman coming out late-in-life called Seeking Sara Summers http://www.SeekingSaraSummers.com. For these women it isn't about getting their 15 minutes of fame, it's about getting a life. I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage to simply be who you are.

What the HELL ? I am a Lesbian, Trapped in a Mans body..... wanna fuck ?

Okay that's hilarious that she was married to Lance from Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, whose character got beheaded Z-Man who turned to be a shemale after Lance killed her 'an ugly broad'. Okay maybe ironic is a better word.

I bet having a lesbian TV mom is how Michael J. Fox caught the Parkinson's...I hear that's one way you can get it.

That and using your middle initial in your stage name...they never tell you these things when your start out in show biz.

You gotta learn the hard way.

Sincerely,
Cookie Cutter

It's just a theory of mine, but I think Betty Broderick's compelling powers have claimed another. You'll recall, she shot her ex-husband and his new wife as they slept and then tried to pass herself off as a wronged wife. Meredith Baxter played her--BRILLIANTLY--in two TV movies in the 90's. I'm convinced that Meredith was as straight as an arrow until the spirit of Betty Broderick inhabited her, and she became a man-hating lesbian. Just a thought...

Very informative read, I can say I did not know that before!

I always had a feeling about Meredith. She gave of that special vibe. Felt so happy when Meredith came out. She is a funny, gorgeous, talented, sophisticated woman -- and such a good role model for the glbt community. And 62! Dang :)

I feel that way often in person and sometimes on blogs — that the conversation is so established I would be interrupting. I know exactly what you mean about that.