Brian Damage
03-03-2010, 10:18 PM
Observer: Do you still get recognized as Gloria from "All in the Family"?
Struthers: I get recognized as everything. I swear, I've got people who know my name as Sally or they know me as Gloria. Or I get teenagers who think I'm Babette from my seven years on "Gilmore Girls," or I get people who know me but they don't know who I am.
Observer: "All in the Family" is such a part of TV history. What's it like to be a part of that?
Struthers: You know, being a part of "All in the Family" just keeps getting better. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It sells tickets at the theater. That's wonderful, but for me personally, I'm always approached by people who have a story for me about what it meant for them them to watch that show, who they watched it with, people who aren't here anymore. ... People tell me that even if they had issues the rest of the week, they came together to watch that show.
Observer: Do you still keep in touch with ("All in the Family" stars) Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner?
Struthers: I do. I keep in touch with Jean probably the most. And Rob Reiner, I hardly ever run into him. He's too busy making motion pictures. The one I miss terribly is Carroll O'Connor. (Series star O'Connor died in 2001). He was a very interesting, bright, funny man. My father died two years before "All in the Family" came on, and Carroll O'Connor became my father off-screen, as well as on.
Observer: Could you see a TV reunion with Stapleton and Reiner?
Struthers: I don't think a TV reunion would be good, when people can't even remember that it was called "All in the Family." They say, I loved you in "All in My Family," I loved you in "All my Children."
And I don't think it would work without Carroll O'Connor. He was the pivot, he was the reason the show worked. It would just be kind of sad. It would be be hard to be hilarious without him around.
http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/02/28/974807
Struthers: I get recognized as everything. I swear, I've got people who know my name as Sally or they know me as Gloria. Or I get teenagers who think I'm Babette from my seven years on "Gilmore Girls," or I get people who know me but they don't know who I am.
Observer: "All in the Family" is such a part of TV history. What's it like to be a part of that?
Struthers: You know, being a part of "All in the Family" just keeps getting better. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It sells tickets at the theater. That's wonderful, but for me personally, I'm always approached by people who have a story for me about what it meant for them them to watch that show, who they watched it with, people who aren't here anymore. ... People tell me that even if they had issues the rest of the week, they came together to watch that show.
Observer: Do you still keep in touch with ("All in the Family" stars) Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner?
Struthers: I do. I keep in touch with Jean probably the most. And Rob Reiner, I hardly ever run into him. He's too busy making motion pictures. The one I miss terribly is Carroll O'Connor. (Series star O'Connor died in 2001). He was a very interesting, bright, funny man. My father died two years before "All in the Family" came on, and Carroll O'Connor became my father off-screen, as well as on.
Observer: Could you see a TV reunion with Stapleton and Reiner?
Struthers: I don't think a TV reunion would be good, when people can't even remember that it was called "All in the Family." They say, I loved you in "All in My Family," I loved you in "All my Children."
And I don't think it would work without Carroll O'Connor. He was the pivot, he was the reason the show worked. It would just be kind of sad. It would be be hard to be hilarious without him around.
http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/02/28/974807