![]() They believed each other always when it came to boys, though not always other things. They bickered, they fought, they argued, but they also had each other’s backs. Ten Times They Were Really Gayįrom day one, Jo and Blair were at each other’s throats. Plus her favourite grandfather (Judge Carlton Blair) was a member and supporter of the KKK. Blair has lived through her mother’s multiple marriages and divorces, and doesn’t see her father (any of them) all that much. She’s incredibly proud of who she is (rich) and quite ignorant about everything else. Her mother has been married three times, and Blair is the heiress to Warner Textiles. Blair is smart, though she lacks common sense from time to time, and she’s absolutely stuck up on appearances. Blair Warnerīy contrast to Jo, we have rich, blonde, Blair. Jo has the highest grades on the entrance exam (her 98 beats Blair’s 96) and she’s very much not en vogue with the rest of the students. In no short order we find out Jo doesn’t want to be at school, but was sent there because her single mother thought she was getting too serious with her first boyfriend, Eddie (who at 17 was in the Navy already). ![]() She arrives dressed head to toe in denim, and is straight away confused for a boy: Seriously, why does Jo have tape hanging off her belt? In season two, we meet the new scholarship student, Polish, Bronx born, Jo. The first season concentrated on seven girls and three adults.īut if you ask the queers, it really starts in season two when we meet Jo. Girls of all ages live in the same house, sharing space an interacting, dealing with life and boys and peer pressure. In this world, we originally have a boarding house where a group of girls all live, monitored by a house mother, Mrs. ![]() In the 1980s, it was still relatively common for well-off or upwardly mobile families to send their children off to school as young as 11. This is, by the way, a real town in upstate New York (along the Hudson River), and there are many boarding school setups like this in the area. Eastland Academy is based in Peekskill, New York. The Facts of Life takes place, as I said, in a boarding school. Created by Tim Kring of Providence fame, the weekly, 60-minute Crossing Jordan was to have made its NBC bow on September 17, 2001, but breaking news events pushed up the series' premiere date to September 24.My dear queers, let me help explain the passion our generation has with this silly little show. Rounding out the cast was Miguel Ferrer as Jordan's combative rule-bound boss, Garret Macy. Acting as Jordan's unofficial leg man was her father, Max (Ken Howard), an ex-cop plagued by memories of his murdered wife and by the scandal that cost him his job. The heroine was the sort of forensic sleuth who popped up at funerals to snap the cuffs on the "grieving" spouse in preparation for a murder charge. A brilliant Boston-based medical examiner, Jordan tended to rub her superiors the wrong way with her feistiness and insubordination, but her expertise and persistence inevitably proved to be indispensable to Beantown's coroner's office. Jordan Cavanaugh, played by former Law and Order regular Jill Hennessy. The title of this NBC detective drama referred not to the Biblical river but to Dr.
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