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...January 1971, when CARROLL O'CONNOR first introduced Archie Bunker to the American TV audience, CBS braced itself for a flood of protest calls. Instead, as TIME wrote 1 1/2 years later, the show sparked "a new era of candor...
...Archie Bunker burst onscreen snorting and bellowing about "spades" and "spics" and "that tribe." He decried miniskirts, "bleeding heart" churchmen, food he couldn't put ketchup on and sex during daytime hours. He bullied his "dingbat" wife Edith and bemoaned his "weepin' Nellie atheist" daughter Gloria. Above all, he clashed with his liberal, long-haired son-in-law Mike Stivic, a "Polack pinko meathead" living in the Bunker household while working his way through college...
Read TIME TV critic Jim Poniewozick on one of television's indelible icons: "As O'Connor played him, Archie Bunker was perpetually and evocatively tired: tired from his job, tired from dealing with the new world of strangers that moved into his Queens neighborhood... He put the lump in lumpenproletariat... He was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed... Archie was an Astoria King Lear." www.time.com/oconnor...
...enjoys relaxing with a wide circle of friends. He and his wife-former Actress Peggy Diem, by whom he has a son and a daughter-shuttle between a Spanish-style home in Beverly Hills and a rented beach house at Malibu, where Yorkin occasionally dons an Archie Bunker sweatshirt and barbecues hot dogs for neighbors like the Henry Mancinis. Although, like Lear, he describes himself as a putative liberal, he sometimes turns up for dinner with Henry Kissinger when the presidential adviser makes one of his forays into Hollywood salons...
...both, because it all goes in the same pot." The pot is growing bigger; what to do next is becoming a multimillion-dollar question. Indeed, what else is left for Yorkin and Lear now that they have given TV a new system of dating ? B.B. and A.B. (Before Bunker and After Bunker)? How much longer can they compete with themselves for the top audience ratings...