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>> Even Ed O’Neill observed in an interview about his “difficulties” with Amanda that in the 12 years of the show, she moved away from being pretty/feminine (lesbian) in the early years to more masculine towards the end. If they were to do a reunion, it would probably make sense to have her become a bulldyke (having Jefferson divorce her). <<

An interesting story that apparently happened in reverse (some previously culturally hedonist person becoming all chaste and pure) was the well-publicized story of when Kirk Cameron converted to Christianity in the middle of the sitcom Growing Pain's run. There's been a ton of books written on the topic, but they should really do some "behind-the-scenes" tell all movie about it, it would be FAR more interesting than the show itself was.

Cameron's a hard-core Christian conservative now, so of course he has a big fan base on FR. I have a negative view of him in much the same way Ann Coulter used to rub me the wrong way, but tons of FReepers loved her. My problem with Cameron is not what he does but HOW he does it. FReepers used to bash Rick Santorum when he was running for President and accuse him of being an overbearing holier-than-thou type, which IMO is more true of guys like Cameron. It's great that he's a staunch pro-life Christian now, its NOT great that he is a sanctimonious ass about it.

From what I've heard, he became extremely difficult to work with and very demanding on the show after his conversion (refused to do any scripts that went against his worldview, for example, demanded episodes that depicted pre-martial sex get rewritten). His co-workers said he gave them the cold shoulder after the show ended and refused to talk to them because they "weren't Christians" (ALL of them, Kirk? I find that hard to believe that not ONE person in the cast besides you attended church...), which ironically seems like very UNchristian behavior to me.

Also interesting, both former 80s teen heartthrobs/bad boys Kirk Cameron & Marky Mark have now become devout Christians (in Marky Mark's case, a hardcore practicing Catholic), but you never hear about Mark's profound spiritual change of heart, because again... he's NOT a sanctimonious ass about it!

I’ve wondered whether the dislike for Kirk Cameron from Hollyweird was based on his being a Christian Conservative or because he actually is difficult to work with (then again, so are many leftists - Streisand is notoriously horrid to work with). I’m guessing it’s a mix of both bigotry and some reality.

That’s quite a hate filled rant on a fellow Christian.

Thanks for showing us your true heart...or lack thereof.

Now slither back to DU...