Sunday, June 2, 2013

Fine Actress Jean Stapleton Dies -- and what was wrong with 'All in the Family'?

Jean Stapleton of ‘All in the Family’ dies at 90


** FILE ** Actress Jean Stapleton speaks during an interview in Washington on Wednesday, March 3, 1977, saying she will increase speaking out to the "Edith Bunkers" of the land to try and muster support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90. John Putch said Saturday, June 1, 2013 that his mother died Friday, May 31, 2013 of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)

NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s comedy “All in the Family,” has died. She was 90.

Stapleton died Friday of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family, her son, John Putch, said Saturday.

Little known to the public before “All In the Family,” she co-starred with Carroll O'Connor in the top-rated CBS sitcom about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he churlishly but fondly called “Dingbat,” their daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and liberal son-in-law Mike, aka Meathead (Rob Reiner). ...


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     A fine actress, in a series that said that the best you can hope for in a non-liberal is that his hateful ignorance will be counterbalanced by a lovable comicality, and an inching toward becoming a liberal, the enlightened destiny of all future humans, or so they delude themselves--and try to jam down everyone else's throat. 
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