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...junk business in Los Angeles. But it is no Family in blackface. Its humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
Died. Lewis ("Redd") Evans, 60, songwriter and music publisher who collaborated on such hits of the 1940s as There! I've Said It Again, No Moon at All. and that World War II harbinger of Women's Lib, Rosie the Riveter; in New Rochelle...
...Angeles and playing a continual, if affectionate game of oneupmanship. Yet NBC's Sanford and Son, which premiered in January, is already one of TV's top ten shows. With so much seemingly going against it, what does Sanford have going for it? Above all, it has Redd Foxx...
...night at the club-90 minutes' work for grand-theft money," he says. "But television is the now medium. Suddenly I've got a lot of future." But the years of waiting have left him rather bitter. "'Sanford made it in twelve weeks," he says. "Yet Redd Foxx has been around for 33 years. What took them so long...
...show's staff have ever seen the inside of his home, a two-bedroom colonial that he rents in the Hollywood Hills. His awards-which include two Emmys-are placed in front of his bed. facing a brass statue of a clown, a gift from his friend Redd Foxx...