Posted on 10/02/2014 8:25:47 PM PDT by iowamark
[Norman Lear wryly titled his memoir Even This I Get to Experience (out Oct. 14, Penguin) as a wink to his belief that even the bad times in his life were worthwhile because they made the living interesting. And over the course of 92 years, Lear has led as interesting a life as anyone in Hollywood. Born in 1922 in Connecticut, Lear lived with relatives for a time while his father spent three years in jail from 1931 to 1934 for a dodgy get-rich-quick scheme...]
[All in the Family: Season 2 Carroll O'Connor's insecurities and fears drove him to great heights as an actor, but they almost brought an early end to the show]
Lear: Carroll sat down to every reading worried and unhappy. It seemed to make little difference whether his problems with the script turned out to be few or many, small or large. Most of the time we'd hear, "It just doesn't work." He wasn't always wrong, of course. But much of the time we were facing fear, a fear that could render Carroll impossible to deal with. It was understandable to a degree. He was, after all, at the beginning of a process where he was to shed the gentle Irish intellectual Carroll O'Connor to become the poorly educated, full-of-himself blowhard Archie Bunker, spewing a kind of rancid, lights-out conservatism for a television audience that grew quickly to more than 50 million people...
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amen.
i also don’t discriminate in who i view as potential threats.
I detested the left wing Maude show, just as I despised All in the Family, Andy Griffith was great.
And yes, isn't it interesting how All in the Family is still watchable and funny, but who the hell watches Maude re-runs?
Do they even broadcast those?
I'm sure Lear thought viewers just couldn't get enough of Maude's liberalism, but it is SO stale and unfunny by today's standards.
I was a kid, and I couldn't tell you a single episode I remember.
I still remember Archie and Meathead though.
Something that Bea Arthur appeared to be ashamed of and tried to conceal.
I still thank her for it as it supported my late father fighting in the Pacific, if even in a small way. Her head was obviously in the right place at one time. All gave some, some gave all.
Poor guy had a rough life. He had paranoid schizophrenia and that’s about as bad as you can get. He believed white people had hooked up machines to his brain to steal his musical ideas.
He was a very talented man. It’s sad his life ended the way it did.
What do you mean by filth? Yeah, he interjected his Leftist views into his shows but I don’t remember seeing anything of a vile nature.
The Meathead was worse when it came to being cocky. He was very full of himself.
My dad was in the Pacific and Europe, but it doesn’t affect my disdain for this sorry woman.
You misunderstand me, I’m thinking. She was right-thinking enough once to join the Naval service, even if it was in a much less dangerous position than what your father and mine occupied. That’s just the way things were at the time, she had no control over that. She still served honorably, so far as I know of, in the military and I appreciate that, no matter what she later became. Was she wrong-headed when we knew of her? Sure. Hollywood is full of that. The father from “The Waltons” once came to a nearby church (he was an ordained minister) to warn parents not to allow their children to go into show business. I lived in Southern California at the time.
You should read Ben Shapiro book
Primetime Propaganda
Excellent
Lear was one of many...a particular demographic most raised in 200 mile strip of the northeast....
Destroyed TV
Sarnoff was about the only decent of the whole lot....
Its no wonder everyone is brainwashed
She was a lefty bitch, what difference does it make that she served in the military?
I have known disgusting people who served in WWII that you wouldn’t want to know, or be around, from murderers to a true Stalinist, and radical leftists and socialists.
None whatsoever
Adrienne Barbeau
Those old “All in the Family” re-runs are still good, if you can find them. I loved it when Mike had an effeminate friend over to visit...Archie said they ought to open up a window and watch him fly out.
I’m in the minority when it comes to the Andy Griffith show; I don’t much care for it. I know Griffith’s sheriff character was supposed to be folksy and kindly, but whenever he grinned, he looked sinister and sharklike to me...totally fake.
Andy was just the straight man. The real laughs on that show came from the town characters like Barney Fife, Otis Campbell, Ernest T. Bass, Floyd the Barber, et al.
I'm probably one of about three people on earth who hated the Andy Griffith character.
I respect the values he tried to instill in Opie, but I always disliked his patronizing attitude towards his "underlings".
And his politics in real life, exposed in his dotage confirmed what I thought of both the man and his character.
A complete elitist liberal douche, who sneered at the "little people" he happened to be "sheriff" of.
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