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...Connor's death resonated with so many largely because All in the Family, and his bigot nonpareil Archie, had a second life in reruns for decades. But TV rarely basks in this kind of glow, for two contradictory reasons. On the one hand, it's too accessible. Its masterpieces and its misfires are readily apparent to anyone with a remote; the same people who complain that "there's so much garbage on TV" can remain blissfully unexposed to the chaff that makes up most of the books published, movies screened and records released in a year. And on the other...
DIED. CARROLL O'CONNOR, 76, Shakespeare-schooled actor who left an enduring mark on TV history as the coarse but lovable working-class bigot Archie Bunker on Norman Lear's All in the Family (1971-79); of a heart attack; in Culver City, Calif. O'Connor won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Archie; he won another for his role as a liberal-minded Southern cop on the NBC drama In the Heat of the Night (1988-94). In his later years, after his drug- and alcohol-addicted son Hugh committed suicide in 1995, O'Connor became an outspoken...
...Laura Z. Hobson, who prodded the public conscience with her 1947 novel about anti-Semitism, "Gentlemen's Agreement," complained that "you cannot be a bigot and be lovable." Lear replied that bigotry was most common and most insidious when it occurred in otherwise lovable people. Since then, Northwestern University Sociologist Charles Moskos has supported both the Bunkers and the de-Bunkers by arguing that "Family's" humor cuts two ways: "It is a cheap way for tolerant uppermiddle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment of bigotry...
...curse of the greatest TV actors is that no one believes they're acting. As Archie Bunker, the beseiged blue-collar bigot and patriarch of "All in the Family," Carroll O'Connor became his character so completely and physically that it was impossible to imagine him as a separate person. It wasn't just his New York-y delivery - those "youses" and "terlets" - but the way he carried himself: the tousled hair, the bone-weary shamble, the plaintive Irish eyes rolling heavenward at the dingbats and pinkos who surrounded him in his own house...
...naming pop musician Eminem as the worst in music last year, you noted, "Attacking women and gays isn't rebellious, it's archaic." That is the smartest thing anyone has ever written about Eminem. Too bad other magazines gave kudos to the year's most visible bigot. Thank you, thank you, for not including Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP on your list of the 10 best albums. THOM RENTON BRITTANY Seattle...