You Take The Good, You Take The Bad

Nobody rocked a loose bun while dispensing words of wisdom at an upstate girls' school quite like Edna Garrett, Eastland's unflappable house mother in '80s television jewel The Facts of Life, and no memoir in recent memory promises as many juicy nuggets as Charlotte Rae's.  There's alcoholism, an autistic son and a husband who decided he liked to ride the peen after twenty five years of marriage, but I'm probably going to skip over all of that and get to the part where she caught Cousin Geri going down on Jo in Blair's trailer, watching for a few seconds while softly stroking her pearls before she broke it up with a yardstick.