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Will Cancel Culture Lead to the End of Insensitive TV Characters? (Guest Blog) Columnist Jordan Barkin ponders if crass characters like “All in the Family’s” Archie Bunker and “30 Rock’s” Jack Donaghy would be allowed on air today Jordan Barkin Guest Writer | July 5, 2021 @ 4:10 PM Photo credit: NBC/Wikicommons/NBC When the skilled dramatic actor Caroll O’Connor took a comedic turn as Archie Bunker in “All in the Family” in 1971, critics noticed the layered performance. Looking back decades later, Ronald Brownstein wrote in The Atlantic: “‘All in the Family’ commanded national attention to a degree almost impossible to imagine in today’s fractionated entertainment landscape. Archie Bunker’s catchwords stifle, meathead, and dingbat all became national shorthand. Scholars earnestly debated whether the show punctured or promoted bigotry.” ....
Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, before going on to even bigger fame as the cheerful Capt. Stubing on The Love Boat, has died. He was 90. ....
Today, don't stifle yourself: Wish 'All in the Family' a happy 50th anniversary! 1019thekeg.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 1019thekeg.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.