All In The Family's Journal (original) (raw)

8:08 pm
[ilovedrama06]

Gee Our Old LaSalle Was Great This show was a favorite in my house, growing up. I loved Archie and Edith. Mike and Gloria were my least favorites, but, the show wasn't the same when they left. I loved the episodes with Beverly LaSalle. It was really sad when he/she was killed by those punks on Christmas Eve.

My favorite episodes of all time would be "Cousin Maude" I loved watching her fight with Archie. "Sticks and Stones will break my bones but,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt" rofl.

Edith's Problem: She is going through the change of life and it's driving Archie crazy, he doesn't know how to act around her.
It was funny to see her yelling at him "Stifle Stifle Stifle!!"

Current Mood: happy

11:30 pm
[one_in_five]

Newbie here! Hey, is there anybody out there?
I dont think so...

Well, I just joined this community so I'll introduce myself.

I'm Érica, I'm 16 years old and I'm from Portugal... this community is dead, is it? o.O

Thas too bad, 'cause All in the Family rocked and I'm sure there are many fans out there.

Current Mood: dorky

12:04 am
[sankitty]

Hi, I'm new here! I just wanted to ask everyone a question.....They showed the episode tonight on nick at night where a swastika is painted on the bunker's front door.

What did you all think of this episode, or other serious episodes..?

1:44 am
[mysticchyna]

Commercial I just love the commercial they are running on TV Land compiling all of Archi Bunker's various funny noises and faces he makes. At the end he say's to Mike (Meathead)
"Maybe so, but I make a lot of sense."

Current Mood: amused

6:26 am
[mysticchyna]

How Sad WEll Let's get some posts here. I miss Archie, but I watch the reruns on tv each night. I love that show. How does Golden Girls get such a following, and not All in the family?

Current Mood: wondering

4:16 pm
[tazmania6507]

In loving memory.... TV's Archie Bunker Dies
by Marcus Errico
Jun 21, 2001, 5:00 PM PT
Carroll O'Connor, forever TV's curmudgeonly Archie Bunker, has died. He was 76.
The iconic All in the Family star died of a heart attack at approximately 3:15 p.m. Thursday in Culver City, California.
He had been complaining of chest pains and had gone to his doctor's office. It was there he suffered the heart attack and was rushed to nearby Brotman Memorial Hospital, his wife Nancy at his side, publicist Frank Tobin tells E! News Daily.
Doctors tried to revive the stricken O'Connor but had no luck.
He was best known for his Emmy-winning work as the bigoted, blue-collar Bunker patriarch on Norman Lear's landmark CBS '70s sitcom All in the Family, which was one of the highest-rated, most-debated shows ever. O'Connor reprised the role in one of its three spinoffs, Archie Bunker's Place (Maude and The Jeffersons were the others).
O'Connor even cowrote All in the Family's title song, "Remembering You" (aka "Those Were the Days"), which he famously crooned with TV wife Jean Stapleton.
He also won an Emmy as the gruff sheriff on CBS' In the Heat of the Night, which he coproduced.
Before making it big on TV, the New York-born O'Connor got his start in supporting roles in the movies, often being typecast as the tough commander in such war films as Kelly's Heroes, In Harm's Way and The Devil's Brigade.
He also made the rounds in '60s shows like Ben Casey, I Spy, Gunsmoke, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Outer Limits, The Fugtive and The Wild, Wild West before Lear tapped him for TV immortality.
Aside from the occasional appearance on Mad About You and Party of Five, O'Connor remained something of a recluse in recent years, following the 1995 suicide death of his drug-addicted son, Hugh, the subsequent legal battle with Hugh's drug dealer and a string of health setbacks.
A diabetic, O'Connor was admitted to the hospital in November, where he had a toe on his left foot amputated to improve circulation. He appeared in good spirits afterward, even showing off his bandaged foot for TV cameras.
A year earlier, he went under the knife so doctors could fix adhesions from a previous gall-bladder operation. In June 1998, doctors cleared a blockage in a heart artery to reduce his risk of stroke.
Despite his myriad ailments, O'Connor came out of semiretirement to costar in last year's Return to Me, with David Duchovny and Minnie Driver, and was judged by most critics to be the best part of the maudlin romantic comedy.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Nancy.
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Goodbye, Archie. We'll miss you.