Playboy Interview: Carroll O'connor

Playboy Interview: Carroll O'connorAs a television series, the idea was improbable. Impossible, some said. A similar program had been a hit in England, but who in America would want to watch a weekly situation comedy starring a middle-aged, blue-collar bigot who not only called a spade a spade but indiscriminately maligned members of other minority groups as "spicks," "Hebes," "dumb Polacks," "Chinks" and "tamale eaters," liberal politicians as &...