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Archie Bunker’s favorite nickname for his loving but long-suffering wife Edith may have been “dingbat.” But devoted All in the Family viewers knew that Edith was hardly a pushover. And ...
No need to adjust your TV sets: It’s not the 1970s, despite ABC’s best efforts to make you think so Wednesday night. The network, aided by of Norman Lear (One Day at a Time) and Lear superfan ...
Archie is what a particular recent presidential candidate might call a “deplorable,” and his views in many episodes are surely that: racist, sexist, retrograde. The show’s fans know this.
"Archie Bunker couldn’t exist today." It’s a refrain that’s landed in my inbox more than once since t he death of “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear on Tuesday.
Archie’s outdated views of African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Asians, women and even Jews were supposed to be the mark of Cain for him. Instead, they made him endearing to many Americans.
We think we’ve just found NRA chief Wayne LaPierre’s favorite episode of “All in the Family.” Way back in 1972, Normal Lear’s patriarchal masterpiece Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor ...
By L. Benjamin Rolsky Since the 2016 presidential election, images, memes and stories involving the infamous television character Archie Bunker, the notoriously blunt, occasionally racist ...
The character’s prejudiced views about women, people of color, and sexuality ... Archie Bunker, and the Lears in his 2020 book, Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters. ...
The post-Bunker era found O’Connor doing his most regular work as star and producer of a TV version of In the Heat of the Night (1988-94), which won him another Emmy and gave a supporting role ...
Those obituaries for Jean Stapleton, the remarkable actress who played the guileless and good-hearted housewife Edith Bunker on <i>All in the Family</i> who died recently at 90 years old<i>,</i> ...
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear who is known for being the creator of politically incorrect characters like Archie Bunker in “All in the Family” said Wednesday he thinks Donald Trump is the ...