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...Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief
...people could agree on anything. A couple of ministers noted that drastic measures were probably needed. Everyone ate mangoes. And then, finally, they made the day's only decision: to go home. "Nobody addressed the economic problems. They couldn't figure out what to discuss," says committee member Norman Yin, a professor at National Chengchi University. "You could say there was some confusion...
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...
...Yorkin and Lear crossed paths on the Martin and Lewis show two years later, the Lear-Simmons partnership was doing so well that it had to farm out some of its work to the younger team of Neil Simon, the future Broadway playwright, and his brother Danny. "To me Norman was big-time," recalls Yorkin, who was then a lowly assistant director. "He lived at the Waldorf and moved in a different world from...
...seen Norman cry and I've seen Bud kick a door because things weren't working," says one of their aides. "But they've never attacked each other." Why not? "We have no ego problem," says Yorkin. "We know that whatever either of us succeeds in doing is good for 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...