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...Meanwhile, Yorkin and Lear's breakthrough with "Family" has prompted a host of imitators ? led by Yorkin and Lear. The best of the shows to explore the comic territory they opened up is their "Sanford and Son" (also adapted from a British original), which made its debut on NBC last January...
...Door. "Sanford" is built around the love-hate relationship of a black father and son who run a 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. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, easygoing actor best known as "Good Goobily Goop" Grady, Fred Sanford's sidekick on the 1970s hit sitcom Sanford and Son; in Atlanta, Ga. At 42, Mayo was offered one episode's work on the Redd Foxx series but became a mainstay of the show for the next five years, even spawning a short-lived spin-off, Grady...
...graced countless T shirts and posters after Guevara's death in 1967. The photographer accepted use of his picture as a protest icon but fought commercial reproductions he felt "dishonored" his subject. DIED. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, actor best known for playing the character Grady in the U.S. TV series Sanford and Son; in Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes and the movie In the Heat of the Night. DIED. ALESSANDRO NATTA,83, Italian Communist Party leader for nearly 40 years; in Imperia. A longtime ally of historic party...
Bush and his "old economy" corporate elite have only one thing to say to the world about global warming: "Let them eat CO2." ALAN MACDONALD Sanford, Maine...