Last year, Colorado authorities were preparing new charges against him for violating his parole, according to the Colorado Daily. He's also had mounting legal troubles, including for DUI and assault on his girlfriend. According to Fox News, he never graduated from high school, instead forming a rock band, "Late Bloomers," in 1998. Since playing the youngest sibling on "Family Ties," Bonsall has bounced around Boulder, Colo.
Sadly, he's followed the route of many former child actors. Perhaps Bonsall, whose face and neck are covered with numerous tattoos and piercings, is trying to forget his brief success as cute Little Andy. "Bonsall said he takes a lot of drugs and sometimes those drugs make him forget things."
"Bonsall then said that he and Trujillo both are bipolar and like drugs," the report said. According to the arrest report obtained by Colorado Daily, Bonsall struck Trujillo with a splintered bar stool, but remembers nothing. Both had been drinking heavily and arguing loudly. The 28-year-old was arrested in Colorado for investigation of an assault.Īccording to Colorado Daily, Bonsall was picked up by police last Saturday at the home of his best friend Micheal Trujillo. It's a testament to the show's enduring imprint that Meredith Baxter, who played the mom Elyse Keaton, could make headlines last week with the announcement that she is gay.īrian Bonsall, who played the Keaton's fourth child Andrew in the show's last two seasons, made headlines of a different kind this week. "We thought we were having fun with it, but it was having fun with us. Keaton, the ultraconservative, success-driven son. "We caught the crest of a wave there," said Michael J. At the height of its popularity, "Family Ties," which was about 1960s hippie parents raising their conservative children during the Reagan years, was watched by a third of the television audience. Michael J."By one of these quirks in the time-space continuum, we were the only nuclear family on television, the show's creator Gary David Goldberg told Matt Lauer when the five original cast members reunited on the "Today" show last year.Īnd America loved them.Gary David Goldberg … Executive Producer, Created by.To his great surprise, she returns his affections, saying that she appreciates his hidden “innocent and naïve” nature and was secretly hoping that he would be at the station when she arrived, and they decide to be together, sealing it with a kiss. When he finds her at the station, he says that he couldn’t bring himself to go to the dinner and names the many ways in which they are different, but professes his love all the same. He agonizes that he should have told Ellen of his feelings before she left, and ends up driving all the way to Lancaster to meet her train. However, he soon confesses to his mother that he is in love for the first time, and despite the circumstances, she is happy for him, saying that she can see Steven in him. At home, a tense Alex snaps at his sisters, but Mallory scolds him to stop feeling sorry for himself, and he tries to force himself to think about the economics dinner. She retorts that she was merely “humoring” him with the kiss and leaves. She points out that they met under dubious circumstances and he has no right to comment, but he accuses her of marrying young out of insecurity and fear. They then sit down to take an important test, but Alex is unable to write a thing as he dwells on his memories of good times with Ellen.Īt the train station, Alex suggests that he drive Ellen all the way there and admits that he wants to talk her out of marrying Dennis, but when she asks why, he cannot admit his feelings and merely claims he is being pragmatic. Alex desperately offers to drive her to the train station, and she agrees. She deflects, however, and reveals that her wedding is in fact that Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Alex is deeply distraught over Ellen, but cannot bring himself to tell his mother, as it a “guy thing.” In class, Tricia happily talks to Alex about an important economics department dinner that they plan to attend, but Alex is distracted by Ellen’s presence and attempts to talk to her about their kiss at the dance.
In the second half of this two-part episode (continued from B:45622), Skippy arrives at the Keaton home for brunch, but is dismayed to learn that all of the family members are otherwise occupied.
#ALEX P. KEATON LOVE SONG SERIES#
One in this comedy series about the Keaton family - Elyse and Steven, two aging ex-hippies, and their conservative, materialistic children.