The part of Michael “Meathead” Stivic was originally offered to Harrison Ford. Ford, however, turned it down, finding the character of Archie Bunker too offensive. In May 2013 Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) died of natural causes at the age of 90. On June 5 that year the lights on Bro...
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Completing the Bunker household was Archie’s slow-witted but honest wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), whom he referred to as “Dingbat”, his married daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and his unemployed, ultra-liberal student, Polish son-in-law, Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner), who he nicknamed “Mea...
“All in the Family,” which starred the “lovable bigot” Archie Bunker character, has also been appraised as one of the earliest TV shows to deal with antisemitism in the United States — though Lear’s intention to paint Archie’s opinions as abhorrent backfired wh...
Most people today know Betty from one of her TV series. She played Archie Bunker’s liberal counterpart Irene Lorenzo on “All in the Family” and in my opinion she was TV’s first true feminist. While Bea Arthur’s “Maude” also sparred with bigoted Archie Bunker before getting her own...
On All in the Family, the arrogant George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) and his patient wife Louise (Isabel Sanford) lived in a blue-collar Queens neighborhood right next door to Archie and Edith Bunker. Hemsley was so instantly electric opposite both Sanford and Family star Carroll O’Connor tha...
and darkly nostalgic, it’s pure distillation of the obsessions that would follow Cobain for a career: Childhood (crackly kids records), meta-commentary on music (the repeating word “disco”), KISS (the opening ofAlive), homophobia (Archie Bunker) and the human body (puerile toilet noises)...
Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor), a deeply prejudiced working-class white guy living in Queens, spoke brashly and without shame. Rude and stuck in his ways, Archie was a man living during the rapidly changing 1970s who was roiled by societal shifts, reflected within his own household, that...
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