All in the Family
All in the Family, with fellow CBS series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and M*A*S*H, redefined the American situation comedy in the early 1970s. Based on the hit British show Till Death ...
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Critical Essay by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
I was … taken instantly with [the] clever show [All in the Family], and count myself today as one of its many yet unjaded enthusiasts. Part of my deli...
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Critical Essay by Fred Ferretti
Tonight the Columbia Broadcasting System Television Network will find out if Americans think bigotry and racism, as the prime elements of a situation comedy, are funny...
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Critical Essay by M. J. Sobran, Jr.
All in the Family we have always with us. It is now reduced to buttocks humor—at the expense, of course, of Archie's arse. The latest episode showed ...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Harrington
"All in the Family," is kind of like wishing for a little more frankness in political dialogue and getting your wish in the form of Spiro Agnew. A...
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Critical Essay by Laura Z. Hobson
I have a most peculiar complaint about the bigotry in the hit TV comedy, "All in the Family." There's not enough of it.
Here, spade, spic, co...
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Critical Essay by Norman Lear
I have a most peculiar complaint about Mrs. Hobson's complaint [see excerpt above]. Nigger, kike, and sheeny were the words she found missing from in "All ...
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Critical Essay by Charles L. Sanders
Suddenly we have a new American hero. He's not an Audie Murphy or a Charles Lindbergh or an Ike or a Huck Finn or anybody like that. He's a wholly i...
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Critical Essay by Frank Levy
To assert, as the program's apologists do, that "All in the Family" is satire like "Till Death Do Us Part" is plainly to misunderstand ...
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Entrepreneurs looking to launch an innovative start-up -- and sell it for big bucks -- could learn lessons from Norman Lear, creator of a string of TV hits in the 1970s. Among the lessons?Knock on ...
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Stop, drop, shut ‘em down open up shop…When it comes to the Ruff Ryders, one of the most widely-spread street crews and movements in hip hop culture, they prefer keeping business a fami...
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They held a tour stop, and a family reunion broke out. Floyd Mayweather Jr. stood with his arm around his father Tuesday, showing him off to Oscar De La Hoya and making it clear that the senior May...
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Manila (dpa) - In a southern Philippine province, a Muslim
politician and his three wives are all running for public office in
upcoming mid-term elections in May.
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According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, we have nearly 26 million small businesses. Most are owned by individuals or families. Eventually, one of two things often happens to these firm...
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With family patriarch James Evans, Sr. killed off in the first episode of season four, matriarch Florida Evans is married and gone, leaving neighbor Willona Woods (played by Ja'Net DuBois) at the c...
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The three-disc set contains all 26 episodes of the fourth season. At the heart of each episode is George, the short-tempered dry cleaners owner who has a serious Napoleon complex. A two-part series...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Lo...
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All in the Family
Critical Essay by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
All In The Family Of Ideas
