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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: buffcoat on February 11, 2012, 06:16:44 PM
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Anecdote from the James Cromwell Random Roles interview on the Onion:
All In The Family (1974)—“Stretch Cunningham”
AVC: There’s a period from the ’70s to the ’80s where you were in practically every big TV show of the day. Do any of them particularly stand out—anything you were really excited for, or where you weren’t, but you had an exceptional experience?
JC: Situation comedies were always—I loved Hot L Baltimore. I had a lot of fun on All In The Family—that was a good story. You know, Carroll [O’Connor] had quit. He was holding Norman [Lear] out for more money, and he wanted his name above the title, and Norman said, “What do I say to Jean [Stapleton]? She’s as much a part of the show.” So he said “Fine, I’ll kill him off.” So, he and I, Archie and Stretch, went to Buffalo for a conference, and I lost him in Buffalo, and I came back and I said, “I don’t know where he is.” And we did two shows like that. The third show we were rehearsing, Carroll was dead. They had found him. He was killed. I was to move into the house, and it would be Stretch Cunningham. And of course Carroll settled.
Complete with clip!
http://www.avclub.com/articles/james-cromwell,68988/ (http://www.avclub.com/articles/james-cromwell,68988/)