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Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie’s Better Angel, Dies at 90
NYT ^ | June 1, 2013 | BRUCE WEBER

Posted on 06/01/2013 3:26:50 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron

Jean Stapleton, an actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s, died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 90.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: allinthefamily; dingbat; edith; edithbunker; jeanstapleton
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To: Las Vegas Ron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCzMzJpF3qg


61 posted on 06/01/2013 6:16:58 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Las Vegas Ron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkhU5hRA01Y


62 posted on 06/01/2013 6:39:02 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: familyop

Remember ‘That Girl’? Sitcom with Marlo Thomas? Started in 1966 and was seen by many as feminist propaganda. Marlo Thomas later admitted that she was inspired by Betty Friedan’s writing to do the show.


63 posted on 06/01/2013 6:47:04 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Archie Bunker predicts conditions under Obama
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2013/05/archie-bunker-predicts-conditions-under-obama/


64 posted on 06/01/2013 6:49:00 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Borges

“Marlo Thomas”

I hear she’s a real shrew. Almost makes me feel sorry for Phil Donahue. Almost.


65 posted on 06/01/2013 7:03:19 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
The only member of the Bunker household who ever made sense is gone now.

Funniest "stifle" bit from All in the Family: Edith is on the phone saying nothing for several long moments. Gloria asks what's up. The Meathead replies, "I think Archie put her on stifle."

(p.s. For my money, Archie and the Meathead looked ridiculous, which I always thought was probably the real underlying point. Archie was barely literate and the Meathead was living, breathing example of education turning the brains into tapioca pudding. Or: Archie was an illiterate bigot, but the Meathead---if you also accept bigotry as meaning that you can't bear any view other than your own---was a literate bigot.)

Funniest line Jean Stapleton ever uttered: "I tried to have phone sex once but all I got was a busy signal." (In You've Got Mail.)

RIP, Jean Stapleton. And now that Archie and Edith are together again, maybe she'll put him on stifle for a short spell first!

66 posted on 06/01/2013 7:18:09 PM PDT by BluesDuke (What made America great: God, guns, and Gibson Les Pauls . . .)
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To: Fantasywriter; ReformationFan

I only watched “Maude” for two reasons, and they were both Adreinne Barbeau...


67 posted on 06/01/2013 7:41:17 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

So memorable in You’ve Got Mail.


68 posted on 06/01/2013 7:44:53 PM PDT by Moonmad27 ("I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit)
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To: Old Sarge

Lol. I just clicked on Barbeau’s images, I saw exactly what you meant.


69 posted on 06/01/2013 7:52:38 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter

Meathead always got the worst of the argument.

To me MH was hard to like. I was in my early teens theb.


70 posted on 06/01/2013 8:14:29 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: All

I always figured Norman Lear intended for Archie to be a dumb bigot, but to his surprise, America ended up liking Archie. IIRC, Archie never cheated on Edith, and he worked, supporting his wife, his daughter, AND his idiot son-in-law.


71 posted on 06/01/2013 8:19:49 PM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Borges
"Remember ‘That Girl’? Sitcom with Marlo Thomas? Started in 1966 and was seen by many as feminist propaganda. Marlo Thomas later admitted that she was inspired by Betty Friedan’s writing to do the show."

Yes. That's a great example for other readers, too, and here's why. I was only a child, the few times that I saw it, and didn't know that it was propaganda. If I were to watch it now, I would probably recognize that.


72 posted on 06/01/2013 8:31:55 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: o-n-money

“To me MH was hard to like.”

Agreed. I found him insufferable. A self-righteous know-it-all...living on Archie’s dime. Not a winsome combo.


73 posted on 06/01/2013 8:35:56 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Nea Wood

Good summation. For all his attitudes, Archie came across as eminently likeable.


74 posted on 06/01/2013 8:38:53 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter

My father lived with his in-laws for 6 months. He told me he never opened their refrigerator.


75 posted on 06/01/2013 8:55:13 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: o-n-money

Your father sounds like a man of character. They don’t make many like that any more.


76 posted on 06/01/2013 10:04:25 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Aww gee Edith


77 posted on 06/01/2013 10:12:19 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10))
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To: Fantasywriter

I miss the man. 8 years now.


78 posted on 06/01/2013 11:04:04 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Andy'smom

“If you can fid it, there’s a nice clip of when Archie baptizes is grandson, Joey.”

Here it is-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YutZBOcYk


79 posted on 06/01/2013 11:12:26 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: PLMerite

I figure Mr. and Mrs. Phil Donahue deserve each other.


80 posted on 06/01/2013 11:13:39 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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