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My Aunt
Charlotte

A Jewish News editor
shares her memories of
a very special relative.

KERI GUTEN COHEN

Story Development Editor

W

hen I was a kid, I knew
my Aunt Charlotte was
famous when her name
popped up in a TV Guide cross-
word puzzle. She'd really made it, I
thought.
Back then, I wasn't so
aware of her Broadway
and Off-Broadway work
or her regular appearances
on early television variety
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Beverly Hillbillies.
We stayed at my aunt's home in
Santa Monica and padded around
in our pajamas, raising a ruckus.
She loved it. I remember eating
oranges picked fresh from her tree.
That she even had an orange tree
delighted her after so many years of

54, Where are You?
Then along came
Diff'rent Strokes and The
Facts of Life. The power of
television made her and
her character Edna Garrett
tremendously famous —
and, by extension, I was,
too.
When people discovered
my celebrity link, they'd
search my face and see a
Actress Charlotte Rae, right, with her niece,
family resemblance.
Keri tauten Cohen, JN story development
They'd find I have what
editor, at Keri's wedding in 1986
our family calls "the
droopy Lubotsky eyes."
apartment living in New York City.
Or they were sure they saw some
We got to know my cousin Larry
other similarity.
well during these Thanksgivings. We
It was fun. I could supply occa-
saw his older brother, Andy, who
sional publicity photos personalized
by Aunt Charlotte. I could tell a few was close to my age, less often. He
had autism and died more than a
funny stories. But I realized I didn't
year ago.
know her that well.
Though she was divorced from
She sent birthday cards every year
Uncle
John Strauss, we still saw
with a little note. She talked to my
him,
too,
on these L.A. visits.
mom regularly. And she came to
every family wedding and bar/bat
mitzvah. But we didn't see her much
The Power Of Talent
in between like we did our other
The
three sisters — the aunts —
relatives in Milwaukee, where we
were
the force that kept our extend-
made regular pilgrimages from our
ed
family
so close. And they -were
home in Dallas.
the driving forces for family shows
She felt the separarion, too, and
wanted that closeness for herself and performed in honor of a member
celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah or
her son Larry. So she came up with
a plan, and coordinated with her sis- wedding.
ters Beverly and Mimi, my mom.
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Day parade. She was a participant
that year and we got to watch the
festivities from the "celebrity tent,"
filled with luscious food and other
celebrities waiting their turn to ride
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