#rowan foxx

[noveldivergence]

Rowan Foxx-Delgado is, on the surface, a stay-at-home mommy blogger who has her own courses she sells about everything from parenting to influencing to coding to programming. Not that she needs to work--she's married to Vesper Delgado after all, who has more money from both his parents than most could ever imagine.

Under the surface, the MIT-grad operates the cult of shadow's digital footprint, managing all of the finances and more. She's far more ruthless than people give her credit for.

[photo reference was Kat McNamara]

Click here to learn more about The Apostates universe and see more of my art.

[churchofsatannews]

The Devil’s Mischief #678 – 20th Anniversary!

The Devil’s Mischief celebrates its 20th anniversary! In this first of many specials for the occasion, Bill looks back at the 2004 “Best of Blasphemy” collection, featuring every wonderful religion-bashing track extracted from the show’s first year of episodes. Stream The Devil’s Mischief #678. Download The Devil’s Mischief #678.

[oldshowbiz]

At the Redd Foxx Banquet

[starryeyedgazer]

Children of the Gods (in the void)

[minty-plumbob]

OC Questionnaire

Thank you for tagging me @stargazer-sims @lovelymushrooom and @illuminated-foxx! 💕

Name: scoot o'clery Nickname: scooter Gender: male Zodiac Sign: capricorn Height: 5'10" Orientation: bisexual Nationality/Ethnicity: he was born in moonwood mill. his dad (rowan) was born in sulani and I'm not sure about tessa?? scoot's grandpa (quillson) was born in del sol valley so they're all over the map! Favorite Fruit: orange Favorite Season: Summer 🌞 Favorite Scent: peppermint Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: coffee! Average hours of sleep: depends on if there's a full moon and if he's furious :'D usually 6, but 10 on his days off! Dogs or cats: cats (po!!!) Dream trip: visiting sulani with his family again <3 (he needs a vacation!) Number of blankets: 1 (he gets too warm) Random fact: scoot is still friends with his old university roommates. ego hates two of them but is friends with one of them lol!

tagging anyone who wants to create one too 😊

[foxxfuxx]

hey! welcome to my masterlist. looks a little different than what you’re used to; this is a list of every single one of my characters i will write or have written smut content for. the links to their names attach to their online profiles; considering that i am their creator & sole fan, art and such of them can only be found on the toyhou.se profiles linked below (: if any of them catch your interest, search the bolded hashtag in their description on my page to find anything i’ve posted about them. if any of them catch your interest and they don’t have anything posted about them, feel free to send a request to my inbox; i’ll happily write content for someone if i know they have an audience waiting to see it (: happy scrolling!

ASRA, the troublesome siren that voluntarily agreed to a be a subject in a study on the half-fish humanoids. Silvertongued and a little too charming. Those teeth are a little too sharp for comfort…but that tongue… #XXASRA.

AZRIEL, the clumsy fallen god trying to keep his head above water on Earth. Slimy, cunning, and…not the brightest tool in the shed. #XXAZRIEL.

BELLA JO, the renowned she-bandit terrorizing the old west. Cold, ruthless, and sadistic; unless? #XXBELLAJO.

COBRA, the vocalist of bombshell rock band the Snake Eyes. Bold, brash, and not afraid to fuck someone up. Literally or…physically. #XXCOBRA.

DANTE, the eldest harpy brother. Legally protective to the point of being possessive over his things. Willing to kill for what he loves. Who he loves. Maybe. #XXDANTE.

EMMERSON, the steady host of the earth elixir. Trusty, grounded (literally) and loyal. Definitely doesn’t have a freaky streak. #XXEMMERSON.

ENZO, the eager-to-please wannabe racecar driver trying to ride on a wave of shallow fame. Again; eager to please. #XXENZO.

FIONA, the hot-tempered host of the fire elixir. Runs on lust, vengeance, and a strong desire to show off — in any way. #XXFIONA.

FOXX, the conniving canine demon that heavily enjoys messing with peoples’ heads. Will mess with your head. Heavy. #XXFOXX.

GRIFFIN, the naive host of the air elixir. Wants nothing more than to keep the peace and make his family proud. Or grow his family. Maybe. #XXGRIFFIN.

“HURRY!”

MALOKAI, the scheming devil of a siren haunting the west American coast. Has made a literal killing off of tentacle fetishes and drunks on cruise ships. #XXMALOKAI.

MAMBA, the heartthrob bassist of the Snake Eyes. Very good at her job; good with her hands in general. #XXMAMBA.

MOUSE, the sweet-natured host of the light elixir. Loyal to a fault and fiercely protective of the ones she loves. Fiercely protective of you, maybe? #XXMOUSE.

NICO, Griffin’s former shadow-caster turned Griffin’s shadow. Runs the show back home in France. #XXNICO.

PIXXIE, the solo bartender at the Vixxen. Perhaps slightly crooked morals, but easily one of the best people to have at your side. Or in your bed. Either or. #XXPIXXIE.

RIOT, the beefy brawler of the Falcon. The only thing bigger than her muscles is her heart. And maybe her appetite for love. #XXRIOT.

ROWAN, the youngest harpy brother. Used to getting mowed down by his brothers and not used to getting attention. Easily flushed. #XXROWAN.

SIMEON, the rough host of the storm elixir. Has seen a lot of shit and has a lot of feelings he keeps very deep inside of himself. Or deep inside of you. #XXSIMEON.

SIN, the dauntless captain of the Falcon. Unshakeable and fiercely independent. She’ll prove it to you, too. #XXSIN.

SLADE, the runaway ex-hitwoman trying to stay afloat in a sea of crimes and bad desires. Needs someone to anchor to. You? #XXSLADE.

VIPER, the rockstar guitarist of the Snake Eyes. High on life and loving adoration. #XXVIPER.

VITTORIA, the revered daughter of the 1920s New York mob. Born to spoil someone’s sweet girl and enthralled with doing so. #XXVITTORIA.

WINTER DI GRAY, the lead biologist on the siren study expedition. Top of her graduating class. Cold-cut and calculated. Whips her employees into shape. Literally. #XXWINTERDIGRAY.

XAN, one half of the Gemini running EXO’s wasteland. Mean-spirited and reckless. Assassin, hit for hire; whatever you pay her for. Whatever. #XXXAN.

FOXXTHOUGHTS

XIN, the other half of the Gemini bringing vengeance or justice to the wastelands of exile. Has a mean tongue and gnashing teeth. Another hit for hire. #XXXIN.

FOXXTHOUGHTS

ZEN, the dead-eyed tattooist working right outside of NEO. Wickedly talented with his hands. Shame he’ll only do tattoos. Right? #XXZEN.

ZEPHYR, the quiet host of the air elixir. Knows a lot; never says so. Knows a lot. A lot. More than you’d think they do. #XXZEPHYR.

[rowans-blues]

it’s funny the only reason I’m keeping my current name is because of one person really

like I’ve been coming to terms with my gender and maybe I am nb but like I’m still trying to figure out a good name Rowan has mostly been a placeholder and like I still use my current name because of one reason so if that fully disappears I’m gonna have to pick a new one so I kinda need suggestions

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To This Young Gifted & Black👩🏾 🤎🖤 Actress & Rising Star in Acting Of Today's Age Of Cinema

Born On March 22nd, 1991

She is an American actress and playwright who is best known for having played Billie Rowan on Show Me a Hero, Darlene on The Deuce, and Deborah Johnson in Judas and the Black Messiah, the latter of which earned her a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

In 2023, she began starring in the Amazon Prime Video psychological horror series Swarm by Donald Glover.

She first became interested in acting at about the age of 10. She graduated from Pace University with a B.A. in Theater in 2013.

Her Major Breakthrough Role Was in 2020

She plays a street-smart teenager in Project Power, directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, opposite Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which was released on August 14, 2020, by Netflix.

& Now She is The Starring Actress In The Upcoming Blockbuster Film Based On The Hasbro Toy Line Franchise That Started It All in 2007 Live Action Movie Debuted

The Sequel To The Rebooted Franchise Of The Robots In Disguise

TRANSFORMERS 🤖: RISE OF THE BEASTS 🦍🐆🦏🐀

Please Wish This Young Black Talented🖤 Rising Actress A Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂

Dominique Fishback 👩🏾🤎🖤

#DominiqueFishback

[bllsbailey]

Harvard, MIT, Penn Presidents to Testify on Campus Antisemitism

The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania are set to testify before Congress on Dec. 5, addressing the pressing issue of antisemitism on college campuses.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will host the hearing, as announced on Tuesday, shedding light on the rise of antisemitic incidents on campuses across the nation. Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., expressed concern about the apparent inaction of college administrators in the face of escalating rhetoric.

"Over the past several weeks, we've seen countless examples of antisemitic demonstrators on college campuses," Foxx said. "Meanwhile, college administrators have largely stood by, allowing horrific rhetoric to fester and grow."

The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has heightened accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobic rhetoric on college campuses. University leaders have faced criticism from various quarters, including students, alumni, faculty, and donors, for their responses to the conflict.

The Biden administration has initiated civil rights investigations into multiple universities, probing allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the start of the conflict. Despite separate pledges from the universities to combat antisemitism, discriminatory acts and violence persist.

Foxx emphasized the responsibility of college and university presidents to ensure a "safe learning environment" and called for decisive action against antisemitism. The hearing, titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism," will feature testimonies from Dr. Claudine Gay (Harvard), Liz Magill (University of Pennsylvania), and Dr. Sally Kornbluth (MIT).

During a prior House hearing, Republicans scrutinized campus diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, accusing them of purportedly neglecting support for Jewish students following the Middle East conflict.

The Department of Education launched a groundbreaking investigation into seven schools, including Cornell University, Columbia, and Penn, responding to complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia, CNN reported.

Some donors, expressing dissatisfaction with the universities' handling of alleged antisemitic acts, have threatened to withhold financial support.

Private-equity billionaire Marc Rowan has spearheaded a campaign to remove Magill as the president of Penn, gaining support from notable alumni such as "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf and former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman. Hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman criticized students protesting against Israel, stating, "These kids in college have s**t for brains."

Israel's Minister of Economy and Industry, Nir Barkat, warned American universities of a "heavy price" if they fail to combat antisemitism.

In response to criticism, some universities, including Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, have unveiled new measures to counter antisemitism.

Recently, Columbia announced the formation of a task force on antisemitism, describing it as an "ancient, but terribly resilient, form of hatred."

The University of Pennsylvania unveiled an antisemitism-fighting plan after hateful messages appeared on campus. Magill condemned antisemitic messages displayed on Penn's campus, labeling such actions as "cowardice."

Jim Thomas | editorial.thomas@newsmax.com

Jim Thomas is a writer based in Indiana. He holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science, a law degree from U.I.C. Law School, and has practiced law for more than 20 years.

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[whatsnewtonetflix]

What do secret agents, super powers, and aliens all have in common? They’re all on the latest episode of What’s New to Netflix Instant!? along with a ton of new movies and shows coming to Netflix in September 2020.

We go on a top secret mission with Rowan Atkinson as he tries to stop a heinous plot involving royal jewels and secret DVDs or something when we check out Johnny English from 2003. Next, there’s a new drug on the streets causing people to have super powers or possibly explode in Project Power from 2020. And finally, the true story of a man trying to contact extraterrestrials in the appropriately named John Was Trying to Contact Aliens also from 2020.

All of this plus anacondas, Road Trip rip-offs, cooking BBQ, a teacher that’s an octopus, Jem and the Holograms rip-offs, The History Channel sells out, shows about movie villains, and fictional characters that have fictional siblings that get their own shows.

DOWNLOAD HERE

got a suggestion for the show?: whatsnewtonetflix@gmail.com

[mrgordo82]

I take a look at some mainstream movies, courtesy of a free HBO preview, including "Cold Pursuit," "Replicas," "Skyscraper," "Robin Hood" and "Johnny English Strikes Again"...

https://mrgordo82.blogspot.com/2020/03/movie-round-up-free-hbo-preview-edition.html

[yesthatssadirichardslove]

'Sanford and Son' at 50, 'double-edged' Black sitcom pioneer

LOS ANGELES

When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke.

Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to be a nonstarter for the timid broadcast networks that were television in 1972. It was the eve of cable, and the rise of streaming was decades away.

“It would be like bringing a dog to a cat party,” is how Wilson described the notion of Foxx invading TV in a recent Associated Press interview.

But the comedian cleaned up his act for the small screen, and “Sanford and Son," with Wilson co-starring as Foxx's beleaguered adult son, debuted 50 years this month on NBC. An instant ratings smash, it opened the door for other Black family shows to move into the virtually all-white TV neighborhood.

Norman Lear, who had roiled network waters the year before with the topically driven CBS sitcom “All in the Family,” said serendipity led to “Sanford and Son.” Lear and Bud Yorkin, his producing partner, were in Las Vegas when they caught a lounge act featuring Foxx.

“We met with him and came back to L.A. sky high” about creating a Foxx-centered sitcom, Lear said in an email exchange. “Miraculously, several days later a British agent, Beryl (Vertue) came to us with the idea of making an American version of a big hit in Great Britain entitled ‘Steptoe and Son.’”

“It was an instant marriage,” Lear said, and one he says Foxx didn't resist.

“Not that he wasn’t difficult to deal with, but he was funny as hell and that made everything possible,” Lear said. Foxx, who died in 1991 at age 68, skipped part of one season amid a contract dispute with the producers.

“Sanford and Son,” which aired from 1972-77, revolved around widower Fred Sanford, an irascible junk dealer in the Watts area of LA who foisted work and insults on his long-suffering son, Lamont. Among them: “You big dummy!” which became a show catchphrase.

Wilson, a Vietnam veteran who had appeared on stage in New York, in films and on TV, was approached about the series after an “All in the Family” guest role. Wilson also learned that the producers had another possibility in mind to play Lamont.

“'We were considering Richard Pryor,'" Wilson recalled being told. ”I said, ‘C’mon, you can't put a comedian with a comedian. You've got to have a straight man.' Dick Martin was the nut, Dan Rowan was the straight guy" on “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," he said.

Wilson recounted joining Lear in Las Vegas to meet Foxx and watch his act: “I thought he was the funniest person, the most irreverently funny guy that I’d ever met in my life,” he said.

“Sanford and Son” introduced viewers to other talented actors and comics generally sidelined by Hollywood because of their race, including cast members LaWanda Page as Aunt Esther; Whitman Mayo as Grady Wilson; Don Bexley as Bubba, and Lynn Hamilton as Foxx's good-natured girlfriend, Donna.

Slappy White, who'd worked the comedy circuit with Foxx, appeared occasionally on the series, as did Pat Morita, of future “The Karate Kid” movie fame, whose character's name, Ah Chew, and his ethnicity were punchlines for Fred.

While “Sanford and Son” regularly delivered such racial barbs, it rarely delved into racism or other third-rail issues — politics and abortion among them — that were central to “All in the Family” and its spin-off “Maude.”

Was that deliberate?

“Yes. We didn’t compare ('All in the Family' and ‘Sanford and Son’), but the characters called it like they saw it in their own neighborhoods,” Lear said in an email.

The show begat other sitcoms about working-class Black families, including “Good Times,” also involving Lear and starring Esther Rolle and John Amos, and the less successful “What’s Happening!!” from Yorkin, who died in 2015. (Lear's “The Jeffersons” was rare in featuring an affluent Black couple.)

While Black viewers finally got to see a version of themselves on screen, it was mostly one limited to those in struggling neighborhoods and created by almost uniformly white producers, writers and directors at the behest of white executives.

That’s in sharp contrast to the 21st-century comedies created and steered by Black writers, producers and actors, including ABC's “black-ish,” HBO's “Insecure” and FX's “Atlanta," and their wide-ranging and nuanced views of Black life.

Eric Deggans, TV critic for National Public Radio, sees a “double-edged quality” to the older-generation sitcoms. They showcased performers beloved by Black audiences, and, starting with “Sanford and Son,” proved that a series about a family of color could be widely successful.

The comedies also were honest about depicting some real-life Black challenges, Deggans said. But they ultimately relied on racial stereotypes and settled for laughs.

The shows made poor areas "look livable and even fun, as opposed to the issues that they really faced,” Deggans said.

[aion-rsa]

How All in the Family Changed the TV Landscape

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All in the Family is roundly considered a touchstone for television achievement now, but when it debuted 50 years ago, even the network carrying it hoped it would fizzle quickly and unnoticed. CBS put an army of operators at phone lines expecting a barrage of complaints from offended middle Americans demanding its cancellation. Those calls didn’t come. What came was a deluge of support from people hoping this mid-season replacement was a permanent addition to the network’s lineup. The premiere episode contained a considerable list of “television firsts.” One of these rarities continues to remain scarce on network TV: creator Norman Lear trusted the intelligence of the viewing audience. To celebrate All in the Family’s 50th anniversary, we look back at its journey from conception to broadcast, and how it continues to influence and inform entertainment and society today.

Actor Carroll O’Connor, who was a large part of the creative process of the series, consistently maintains he took the now-iconic role of Archie Bunker because All in the Family was a satire, not a sitcom. It was funny, but it wasn’t a lampoon. It was grounded in the most serious of realities, more than the generation gap which it openly showcased, but in the schism between progressive and conservative thinking. The divide goes beyond party, and is not delineated by age, wealth, or even class. The Bunkers were working class. The middle-aged bigot chomping on the cigar was played by an outspoken liberal who took the art of acting very seriously. The audience cared deeply, and laughed loudly, because they were never pandered to. They were as respected as the authenticity of the series characters’ parodies.

Even the laughs were genuine. All in the Family was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of a live audience. There was never a canned laugh added, even in the last season when reactions were captured by an audience viewing pre-taped episodes. Up to this time, sitcoms were taped without audiences in single-camera format and the laugh track was added later. Mary Tyler Moore shot live on film, but videotape helped give All in the Family the look of early live television, like the original live broadcasts of The Honeymooners. Lear wanted to shoot the series in black and white, the same as the British series, Till Death Us Do Part, it was based on. He settled for keeping the soundstage neutral, implying the sepia tones of an old family photograph album. The Astoria, Queens, row house living room was supposed to look comfortable but worn, old-fashioned and retrograde, mirroring Archie’s attitudes: A displaced white hourly wage earner left behind by the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

“I think they invented good weather around 1940.”

American sitcoms began shortly after World War II, and primarily focused on the upper-middle class white families of Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. I Love Lucy’s Ricky Ricardo, played by Cuban-American Desi Arnaz, ran a successful nightclub. The Honeymooners was a standout because Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden was a bus driver from Bensonhurst (the actual address on that show, 328 Chauncey Street, is in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn). American TV had little use for the working class until the 1970s. They’d only paid frightened lip service to the fights for civil rights and the women’s liberation movements, and when the postwar economy had to be divided to meet with more equalized opportunities there was no one to break it down in easy terms. The charitable and likable Flying Nun didn’t have the answer hidden under her cornette. It wasn’t even on the docket in Nancy, a 1970 sitcom about a first daughter. The first working family on TV competing in the new job market was the Bunkers, and they had something to say about the new competition.

Social commentary wasn’t new on television. Shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek routinely explored contemporary issues, including racism, corporate greed, and the military action in Vietnam, through the lens of fantasy and science fiction. The war and other unrest were coming into the people’s living rooms every night on the evening news. The times they were a-changing, but television answered to sponsors who feared offending consumers. 

Ah, but British TV, that’s where the action was. Lear read about a show called Till Death Us Do Part, a BBC1 television sitcom that aired from 1965 to 1975. Created by Johnny Speight, the show set its sights on a working-class East End family, spoofing the relationship between reactionary white head of the house Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell), his wife Else (Dandy Nichols), daughter Rita (Una Stubbs), and her husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth), a socialist from Liverpool. Lear recognized the relationship he had with his own father between the lines.

CBS wanted to buy the rights to the British show as a star vehicle for Gleason, Lear beat out CBS for the rights and personalized it. One of the reasons All in the Family works so well is because Lear wasn’t just putting a representative American family on the screen, he was putting his own family up there.

“If It’s Too Hot in The Kitchen, Stay Away from The Cook.”

Archie Bunker dubbed his son-in-law, Michael Stivic, played by Rob Reiner, a “Meathead, dead from the neck up.” This was the same dubious endearment Lear’s father Herman called him. The same man who routinely commanded Lear’s mother to “stifle herself.” Lear’s mother accused her husband, a “rascal” who was sent to jail for selling fake bonds of being “the laziest white man I ever saw,” according to his memoir Even This I Get to Experience  All three lines made it into all three of the pilots taped for All In the Family. When Lear’s father got out of prison after a three-year stretch, the young budding writer sat through constant, heated, family discussions. “I used to sit at the kitchen table and I would score their arguments,” Lear remembers in his memoir. “I would give her points for this, him points for that, as a way of coping with it.”

All in the Family, season 1, episode 1, provides an almost greatest hits package of these terse and tense exchanges, which also taught Lear not to back away from the fray. He served as a radio operator and gunner in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, earning an Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters after flying 52 combat missions, and being among the crew members featured in the books Crew Umbriag and 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories. Lear partnered with Ed Simmons to write sketches for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s first five appearances on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950. They remained as the head writers for three years. They also wrote for The Ford Star Revue, The George Gobel Show, and the comedy team Rowan and Martin, who would later headline Laugh-In.

Lear went solo to write opening monologues for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, and produce NBC’s sitcom The Martha Raye Show, before creating his first series in 1959, the western The Deputy, which starred Henry Fonda. To get Frank Sinatra to read Lear’s screenplay for the 1963 film Come Blow Your Horn, Lear went on a protracted aerial assault. Over the course of weeks, he had the script delivered while planes with banners flew over Sinatra’s home, or accompanied by a toy brass band or a gaggle of hens. Lear even assembled a “reading den” in Ol’ Blue Eyes’ driveway, complete with smoking jacket, an ashtray and a pipe, an easy chair, ottoman, lamp, and the Jackie Gleason Music to Read By album playing on a portable phonograph. After weeks of missed opportunities, Lear remembers Sinatra finally read the script and “bawled the shit out of me for not getting it to him sooner.”

The creative perseverance Lear showed just to get the right person for the right part is indicative of the lengths Lear would go for creative excellence. He would continue to fight for artistic integrity, transforming prime time comedy with shows like Good Times, One Day at a Time, and the first late-night soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He brought legendary blue comedian Redd Foxx into homes with Sanford and Son, also based on a British sitcom, Steptoe and Son, which starred Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, best known for playing Paul McCartney’s grand-dad in A Hard Day’s Night. But before he could do these, and the successful and progressive All in the Family spinoffs The Jeffersons and Maude, he had to face battles, big and small, over the reluctantly changing face of television.

“Patience is a Virgin”

After Lear beat CBS to the rights to adapt Till Death Us Do Part he offered the show to ABC. When it was being developed for the television studio, the family in the original pilot were named the Justices, and the series was titled “Justice for All,” according to a 1991 “All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special.” They considered future Happy Days dad Tom Bosley, and acclaimed character actor Jack Warden for the lead part, before offering the role to Mickey Rooney. According to Even This I Get to Experience, Lear’s pitch to the veteran actor got to the words “You play a bigot” before Rooney stopped him. “Norm, they’re going to kill you, shoot you dead in the streets,” the Hollywood icon warned, asking if Lear might have a series about a blind detective with a big dog somewhere in the works.

Taped in New York on Sept. 3, 1968, the first pilot starred O’Connor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Justice. Stapleton, a stage-trained character actor who first worked as a stock player in 1941, was a consistent supporting player for playwright Horton Foote. Stapleton originated the role of Mrs. Strakosh in the 1964 Broadway production of Funny Girl, which starred Barbra Streisand. Lear considered her after seeing her performance in Damn Yankees. She’d made guest appearances on TV series like Dr. Kildare and The Defenders.

O’Connor was born in Manhattan but grew up in Queens, the same borough as the Bunker household with the external living room window which wasn’t visible from the interior. O’Connor acted steadily in theaters in Dublin, Ireland, and New York until director Burgess Meredith, assisted by The Addams Family’s John Astin, cast him in the Broadway adaptation of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. O’Connor had roles in major motion pictures, including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Cleopatra (1963), Point Blank (1967), The Devil’s Brigade (1968), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Marlowe (1969), and Kelly’s Heroes (1970).  O’Connor appeared on television series like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Fugitive, The Wild Wild West, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, That Girl, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He’d guest starred as a villain in a season 1 episode of Mission Impossible, and was up for the parts the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island and Dr. Smith on Lost in Space.

The first pilot also starred Kelly Jean Peters as Gloria and Tim McIntire as her husband Richard. ABC liked it enough to fund a second pilot, “Those Were the Days,” which shot in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 1969. Richard was played by Chip Oliver, and Gloria Justice was played by Candice Azzara, who would go on to play Rodney Dangerfield’s wife in Easy Money, and make numerous, memorable guest appearances on Barney Miller. D’Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots. ABC cancelled it after one episode, worried about a show with a foul-mouthed, bigoted character as the lead.

CBS, which was trying to veer away from rural shows like Mayberry R.F.D., The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, bought the rights to the urban comedy and renamed it All in the Family. When Gleason’s contract to CBS ran out, Lear was allowed to keep O’Connor on as the main character.

Sally Struthers was one of the young actors featured in Five Easy Pieces, the 1970 counterculture classic starring Jack Nicholson. She’d also recently finished shooting a memorable part in the 1972 Steve McQueen hit The Getaway. Struthers had just been fired from The Tim Conway Comedy Hour because executives thought she made the show look cheap, which was her job. The premise of the show was it was so low-budget it could only afford one musician, who had to hum the theme song because they couldn’t afford an instrument, and one dancer, as opposed to a line of dancers like they had on The Jackie Gleason Show. Lear noticed her as a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show which Rob Reiner wrote for with Steve Martin as a writing partner. Reiner’s then-fiancée, the director Penny Marshall, was also up for the role of Gloria, but in an interview for The Television Academy, Reiner recalls that, while Marshall could pass as Stapleton’s daughter, Struthers was obviously the one who looked like Archie’s “little girl.”

Reiner, the son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, was discovered in a guest acting role on the Andy Griffith vehicle series Headmaster, a show he wrote for, but had also played bit roles in Batman, The Andy Griffith Show, Room 222, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies and The Odd Couple. Reportedly, Richard Dreyfuss campaigned for the role of Michael, and Harrison Ford turned it down. Mike Evans was cast as Lionel Jefferson, the Bunkers’ young Black next-door neighbor who sugar-coated nonviolent protests with subtle and subversive twists on “giving people what they want.”

“We’re just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug.”

The very first episode tackled multiple issues right away. It discussed atheism, with Michael and Gloria explaining they have found no evidence of god. The family dissects affirmative action, with Archie asserting everyone has an equal chance to advance if they “hustle for it like I done.” He says he didn’t have millions of people marching for him to get his job, like Black Americans. “His uncle got it for him,” Edith explains, with an off-the-cuff delivery exemplifying why Stapleton is one of the all-time great comic character actors. The family argues socialism, anti-Semitism, sausage links and sausage patties. The generation gap widens as Archie wonders why men’s hair is now down to there, while Gloria’s skirt got so high “all the mystery disappears” when she sits down.

All in the Family would continue to deal with taboo topics like the gay rights movement, divorce, breast cancer, and rape. Future episodes would question why presidential campaign funds are unequal, how tax breaks for corporations kill the middle class, and weigh the personal price of serving in an unpopular war as opposed to dodging the draft. When Archie goes to a female doctor for emergency surgery a few seasons in, All in the Family points out she is most certainly paid less than a male doctor. When skyjackings were a persistent domestic threat in the 1970s, Archie suggested airlines should “arm the passengers.” It is very prescient of the NRA’s suggestion of arming teachers to combat school shootings.

But the first showdown between Lear and the network was fought for the sexual revolution. The first episode’s action begins when Edith and Archie come home early from church and interrupt Michael and Gloria as they’re about to take advantage of having the house to themselves. Gloria’s got her legs wrapped around Michael as he is walking them toward the stairs, and the bed. “At 11:10 on a Sunday,” Archie wants to know as he makes himself known. According to Lear’s memoir, CBS President William Paley objected, saying the line suggested sex. “And the network wants that out even though they’re married–I mean, it was plain silly,” he writes. “My script could have lived without the line, but somehow I understood that if I give on that moment, I’m going to give on silly things forever. So, I had to have that showdown.”

The standoff continued until 25 minutes before air time. CBS broadcast the episode, but put a disclaimer before the opening credits rolled, which Reiner later described as saying “Nothing you’re about to see has anything that we want to have anything to do with. As far as we’re concerned, if you don’t watch the next half hour, it’s okay with us.” Lear knew, with what he was doing, this was going to be the first of many battles, because this was the first show of its kind. Television families didn’t even flush toilets, much less bring unmentionables to the table. “The biggest problem a family might face would have been that the roast was ruined when the boss was coming over to dinner,” Lear writes. “There were no women or their problems in American life on television. There were no health issues. There were no abortions. There were no economic problems. The worst thing that could happen was the roast would be ruined. I realized that was a giant statement — that we weren’t making any statements.”

“What I say ain’t got nothing to do with what I think.”

Politicians and pundits worried about how the series might affect racial relations. The country had experienced inner city riots, battle lines were drawn over school desegregation, busing children to schools was met with violent resistance. Did All In the Family undermine bigotry or reinforce racism? Were people laughing at Archie or with him? Was it okay to like Archie more than Mike?

Lear believed humor would be cathartic, eroding bigotry. Bigots found a relief valve. Lear always insisted Archie was a satirically exaggerated parody to make racism and sexism look foolish. Liberals protested the character came across as a “loveable bigot,” because satire only works if the audience is in on the joke. Bigoted viewers didn’t see the show as satire. They identified with Archie and saw nothing wrong with ethnic slurs. Mike and Gloria come off like preachy, bleeding-heart liberal, hippie leeches. Lionel handled Archie better than Michael did.

O’Connor humanized Archie as an old-fashioned guy trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world. Bunker gave bigotry a human face and, because he hated everyone, he was written off as an “equal-opportunity bigot.” Not quite a defensible title. Archie was the most liked character on the show, and the most disliked. Most people saw him as a likable loser, so identifiable he was able to change attitudes. In a 1972 interview, O’Connor explained white fans would “tell me, ‘Archie was my father; Archie was my uncle.’ It is always was, was, was. It’s not now. I have an impression that most white people are, in some halting way, trying to reach out, or they’re thinking about it.” It sometimes worked against O’Connor the activist, however. When he backed New York Mayor John Lindsay’s 1972 anti-war nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination, Archie Bunker’s shadow distanced progressives.

Archie was relatable beyond his bigotry. He spoke to the anxieties of working- and middle-class families. Archie was a dock worker in the Corona section of Queens, who had to drive a cab as a second job, with little hope of upward mobility. He didn’t get political correctness. The character’s ideological quips were transformed into the bestselling paperback mock manifesto The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker. White conservative viewers bought “Archie for President” buttons. 

“If you call me Cute one more time, I swear I’ll open a vein.”

As cannot be overstated, All in the Family set many precedents, both socially and artistically. The Bunker family is an icon on many levels, Archie and Edith’s chairs are at the Smithsonian. But Archie Bunker is also the Mother Courage of TV. The antithesis of the bland sitcom characters of the time, he also wasn’t the character we hated to love, or loved to hate. Archie was the first character we weren’t supposed to like, but couldn’t help it. This phenomenon continues. The next TV character to take on the iconic mantle was probably Louis De Palma on Taxi. Audiences should have wanted to take a lug wrench to his head, but Danny De Vito brought such a diverse range of rage and vulnerability to that part it was named TV Guide’s most beloved character for years.

We shouldn’t like Walter White, especially when he doffs that pretentious Heisenberg hat, on Breaking Bad. And let’s face it, Slipping Jimmy on Better Call Saul isn’t really the kind of guy you want to leave alone in your living room while you grab a drink. Families across the United States and abroad sat down to an Italian-style family dinner with Tony Soprano and The Sopranos every Sunday night. But on Monday mornings, most of us would have ducked him, especially if we owed him money. Even the advanced model of the Terminator guy was scared of Tony.

The best example of this is South Park’s Eric Cartman. While we don’t know who his father is on the series, he’s got Bunker DNA all over him. He’s even gotten into squabbles with Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner. This wasn’t lost on Lear, who contacted creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to say he loved the show in 2003. Lear wound up writing for South Park’s seventh season. “They invited me to a party and we’re partying,” Lear told USA Today at the time. “There’s no way to overstate the kick of being welcomed by this group.”

“I hate entertainment. Entertainment is a thing of the past, now we got television.”

Television can educate as much as it wants to entertain, and All in the Family taught the viewing audience a whole new vocabulary. The casual epithets thrown on the show were unheard of in broadcast programming, no matter how commonplace they might have been in the homes of the people watching. When Sammy Davis Jr. comes to Bunker house in the first season, every ethnic and racial slur ever thrown is exchanged. In another first season episode, and both the unaired pilots, Archie breaks down the curse word “Goddamn.” But a large segment of the more socially conservative, and religious, audience thought All in the Family said whatever they wanted just because they could get away with it.

All in the Family debuted to low viewership, but rose to be ranked number one in the Nielsen ratings for five years. The show undermined the perception of the homogeneous middle-class demographic allowing shows like M*A*S*H to comment on contemporary events.

All in the Family represented the changing American neighborhood. The show opened the door for the working poor to join situation comedies as much as when the Bunkers welcomed Lionel, Louise (Isabel Sanford), and George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) when they moved into Archie’s neighborhood. Lear reportedly was challenged by the Black Panther Party to expand the range of black characters on his shows. He took the challenge seriously and added subversive humor. Sanford and Son was set in a junkyard in Watts. Foxx’s Fred Sanford rebelled against the middle-class aspirations of his son, Lamont (Demond Wilson). Good Times was set in the projects of Chicago, and took on issues like street gangs, evictions and poor public schools.

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Married With Children, The Simpsons, and King of the Hill continued to explore the comic possibilities of working class drama. Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a successful, upwardly mobile television producer. Working-class women were represented on sitcoms like Alice, but didn’t have a central voice until 1988 when Roseanne debuted on ABC, and Roseanne Barr ushered in her brand of proletarian feminism. All in the Family’s legacy includes Black-ish, as creator Kenya Barris continues to mine serious and controversial subject matter for cathartic and educational laughter. Tim Allen covets the conservative crown, and is currently the Last Man Standing in for Archie. But as reality gets more exaggerated than any satire can capture, All in the Family remains and retains its most authentic achievement.

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People, May 9

Cover: Melissa McCarthy

Page 3: Chatter -- Liam Neeson, Kelly Clarkson, Ellen DeGeneres, Pete Davidson on Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jamie Foxx on Leonardo DiCaprio 

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- Baby Yoda toys head to Earth, Sharon Osbourne debuts gray hair, Supreme Oreos sell big on eBay, Orlando Bloom fixes his tattoo, The First Wives Club will reunite 

Page 6: Contents 

Page 8: StarTracks -- Lizzo at the BRIT Awards 

Page 9: Orlando Bloom and his dog Mighty in Milan, Rihanna at the NAACP Image Awards, Yolanda Hadid supported daughter Gigi Hadid at the Moschino fashion show, Riverdale costars Charles Melton and KJ Apa during a hike 

Page 10: Famous Families -- Katherine Heigl and son Joshua, Liev Schreiber and kids Sasha and Kai, Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy and daughters Rowan and Grier, Simon Cowell and son Eric and dogs 

Page 11: Stars on Set -- Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss film The Matrix 4 in San Francisco, Matt Damon filming The Last Duel in France, Emma Corrin channeled the late Princess Diana while filming the fourth season of The Crown in England, Emmy Rossum in Angelyne in L.A. 

Page 12: Shay Mooney of Dan + Shay welcomed his second son Ames Alexander with wife Hannah, Taylor Dye wed Josh Kerr in Nashville, Vanessa Hudgens at the opening of West Side Story in NYC, One Tree Hill stars Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton and James Lafferty reunite 

Page 15: Maluma stars in the spring Calvin Klein jeans and underwear ad campaign 

Page 17: The Friends reunion is official 

Page 18: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry drop Sussex Royal after Megxit 

Page 21: Heart Monitor -- John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh engaged?, Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel going strong, Hannah Godwin and Dylan Barbour engagement party, Lucy Boynton and Rami Malek date night at a New York Rangers game 

Page 22: Chrissy Teigen on mom challenges, Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti’s happy newlywed life 

Page 25: Harvey Weinstein found guilty and facing prison 

Page 27; Passages, Tribute -- Katherine Johnson

Page 28: Stories to Make You Smile 

Page 31: People Picks -- RuPaul’s Drag Race 

Page 32: Hillary 

Page 33: Dispatches from Elsewhere, Wendy, One to Watch -- Hunters’ Tiffany Boone 

Page 34: The Invisible Man, Grimes -- Miss Anthropocene, Q&A Arielle Kebbel 

Page 35: Devs, Burden 

Page 36: Books 

Page 38: Cover Story -- Melissa McCarthy opens up about her family and leading with love and laughter 

Page 48: At a star-studded memorial for Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Vanessa Bryant bids her loves an emotional farewell 

Page 50: Ben Affleck gets candid about alcoholism and his path to sobriety and how he and Jennifer Garner support each other as he returns to the screen in The Way Back 

Page 56: B. Smith -- A trailblazer’s amazing life 

Page 58: Amie Harwick twice sought court protection from her ex-boyfriend, now he’s charged with lying in wait and throwing her from the balcony of her dream home 

Page 60: Shannon McCook was living her dream life with a loving husband and a beautiful daughter; all that changed when a rare autoimmune disorder attacked her brain taking away her memory and conjuring terrifying hallucinations 

Page 65: Black History Month -- The Legends Who Paved our Way -- Kerry Washington on Diahann Carroll, Issa Rae on Debbie Allen 

Page 66: Common on Muhammad Ali, Naomi Campbell on Nelson Mandela, Ciara on Missy Elliott 

Page 68: Mary J. Blige on Chaka Khan 

Page 71: Sting -- what I know now 

Page 74: Niecy Nash -- 50, Fab & Free 

Page 77: How the Stars Get and Stay Organized -- Tyra Banks, Thomas Rhett 

Page 78: Kristen Bell, Christina Anstead, Khloe Kardashian 

Page 80: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kameron Westcott, Shay Mitchell 

Page 88: One Last Thing -- Elle Fanning

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AU where it's the real Marian that gets brought back from the past. After Ingrid is defeated and it's safe for Marian to return to Storybrooke from New York, it's revealed that Marian is pregnant. Robin Hood ultimately chooses Marian and their daughter is born. Their daughter, Rowan Hood, grows up and eventually falls in love with Alice Jones, the daughter of Captain Hook from an alternate realm.

Corrine Foxx as Rowan Hood.

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Meet Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21 Class of 2018

Young people have always stood at the forefront of major change—and 2018 was no exception. From gun control to climate change to tech and science to sports to fashion to beauty, young women, girls, and femmes are leading the charge in innovative, exciting, and ambitious ways.

In the face of what can often feel like hopeless times, these changemakers have been a beacon of light, a moment of hope, and a path forward. Regardless of the fanfare, or celebrity, it earns them, they continue to do the work to change the world around them, to reach their goals and live their dreams.

We are proud to present to you this year’s Teen Vogue 21 Under 21, a tremendous selection of activists, artists, and revolutionaries who are making waves in their industry or passion of choice. Eighteen-year-old Edna Chavez powerfully spoke on the steps of the capital about the ways gun violence has torn apart her family and her community. Fifteen-year-old Elsie Fisher starred in the riveting Eighth Grade, a visceral portrayal of the inner life of young women (something that is rarely depicted on the big screen), 19-year-old Amika George who has been a leader in “period poverty”, and 18-year-old Deja Foxx a pioneer on youth and sex ed. There is also actress Josie Totah, 17, who bravely came forward as trans and history-making 18-year-old speed skater Maame Biney.

This year’s honorees were chosen through internal nominations as well as from Teen Vogue friends such as Emma Watson and Rowan Blanchard. This list is diverse and it reflects today’s girls. And while the decision for who made the cut was difficult, one theme emerged from the hundreds of young women we looked at:

Girls are watching, yes, but they will not wait for permission to change the world. They’re already doing it.

Meet Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21

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