Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teasing Laughs. The show was created by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, the team that produced All in the Family, and like Family, Sanford is adapted from a successful BBC series. Foxx's Sanford is at times a sort of black mirror image of Family's bigoted Archie Bunker. When he spots a white nurse waiting to give him his chest...
Somewhere along the way he adopted his stage name, which was inspired by Baseball Great Jimmie Foxx and the red fox in children's stories. His real name was Sanford, which Yorkin and Lear borrowed for the show...
Merv Griffin. Millionaires H.L. Hunt and Bill Lear are guests. 4:30, April 17. Chan...
...that soon you'll be able to say, "I live in the green part"-or the brown part, or the black part. Up there in Griffith Park you realize that the city does not have long to go. Of course it's just possible that William Lear's steam-turbine car may solve the problem or that people will settle for small, light electric putt-putts before they choke on their own exhaust, but not likely. In Los Angeles there is just no replacement for that mammoth steel hunk, that roaring brute car that shrinks the land...
...along precipices," Ortega y Gasset noted. "His truest obligation is to keep his balance." What is new and perverse in the '70s man, bankrupt in common convictions and up to here with cultivating his precious self, is the hope of finding salvation by jumping. It is as if Lear's soul-shaking prayer -"O! let me not be mad!"-had suddenly and rather casually been reversed...