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Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« on: June 01, 2013, 04:37:53 PM »
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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 children 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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Re: Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 04:57:44 PM »
I loathed that show and just about everyone connected with it. 

RIP, Miss Stapleton.  Thanks for helping to lower the standards and cheapen the culture.
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Re: Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2013, 10:05:44 AM »
Quote from: Undies on June 01, 2013, 04:57:44 PM
I loathed that show and just about everyone connected with it. 

RIP, Miss Stapleton.  Thanks for helping to lower the standards and cheapen the culture.

Same here.  The archetype of the "Straight white male family heads are contemptible fools" genre of sitcom.
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Re: Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2013, 07:41:55 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on June 02, 2013, 10:05:44 AM
Same here.  The archetype of the "Straight white male family heads are contemptible fools" genre of sitcom.

That's standard for every sitcom.
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Re: Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2013, 07:42:30 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 02, 2013, 07:41:55 PM
That's standard for every sitcom.
And advertising, it seems.
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Re: Jean Stapleton, best known for playing Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family,' dies
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2013, 11:32:39 PM »
I liked her role in You've Got Mail - a chick flick for the ages :-)
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