Posts Tagged All In The Family

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May 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 250 – Hawks vs. Huskies, Napier, 2019

Over the last few years I’ve got back into basketball – at first casually, and then with a lot more interest – even buying a ball and going back to shooting hoops and obviously I’m currently bereft because there’s not only no live basketball to get to (or watch on TV) but also I’ve finished […]

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August 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Archie Bunker’s place

I really like that Archie Bunker character. I mean I wouldn’t think much of him as a person – if he was a real person…but as a character (a very real character) there’s so much there. Even still. You wouldn’t (probably) get away with it now – though the trick seems to be to animate… […]

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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Norman Lear – Just Another Version of You: Film

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Loki Films/Thirteen/WNET He’s 93 and sharp as anything – and what a life of impact – Norman Lear is one of the greatest minds to have ever worked in television. A showrunner for so many big-deal TV shows in America in the […]