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Bonus Video! America Celebrates Jean Stapleton's Bottom
🕑 Added 2023-06-18 16:01:00 +0000 UTCHello there!
A quick heads-up about videos on Patreon: I'm in the process of moving all of the videos from Vimeo to YouTube, which should finally end the "video not available" message that sometimes pops up here. There shouldn't be any disruption for you -- all the videos should just play normally, just (hopefully) without any more annoying errors. But if you run into any issues, please let me know so I can fix it! This process involves a lot of one-by-one downloading, uploading, and editing each Patreon post, so it's slow going. But it should be all done by the end of June.
And just in case ... here's a backup link to this week's video: https://youtu.be/GVn_D03Mv0Q
In this week's bonus video, I've got a story about the absolutely jaw-dropping bigotry that was commonplace on television in the mid-20th century -- thanks, in part to Revlon. Also, an observation about acting styles on All in the Family that ... somehow ... involves Star Wars. And an interview with Jean Stapleton (and Bette Davis and Dinah Shore) about how the federal government chose to commemorate her backside! Plus a surprising comparison between early Daily Show and late Daily Show, courtesy of Norman Lear.
Comments
Ian Forsyth
I have to disagree, Matt, with your statements about the duelling acting styles on AiTF. If this was true, it would look like they were in two different shows, different worlds even. And AiTF was almost a perfect sitcom. The world it created was so complete, the chemistry between all the leads was off the chart, without everyone being on the same page, which is actually a very important element of the director’s job description. I think a stronger comparison might be between the British version of All in The Family, which actually came first, I think it was called To Death Do Us Part. When I think of a more presentational style, that’s what comes into my mind.
Artemus
"stewartship" cute
M.D. Wiselka
I actually stopped watching Breakfast at Tiffany's when that Mickey Rooney "comedy" bit started (in the first few minutes of the film). It is really, really awful! And seemed to me added for absolutely no purpose!
Steve McLean
Alan Rickman perfectly demonstrates the difference in acting styles between British and American actors as illustrated in this amazing speech from Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (from :50-1:31). I can't think of any American actor who could deliver this as brilliantly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_s9lw9E-M
Mark
This goes right along with the chapter I read in “Hi Honey, I’m Homo” about All in the Family. I’ll be 60 next month. When I watched it, my father told me Archie Bunker reminded him of his old man. I didn’t tell him, but I thought Archie reminded me of him! ♥️
James Herington
Thanks for the head's up, Matt
