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'One Day at a Time' actress Bonnie Franklin dies
cnn ^ | Greg Botelho

Posted on 03/02/2013 9:59:35 AM PST by Morgana

(CNN) -- Actress Bonnie Franklin, a Tony Award nominee who played a single mom at the center of the hit TV sitcom "One Day at a Time," died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Franklin was 69.

The woman who played the youngest daughter of Franklin's character on the CBS show, Valerie Bertinelli, said her "heart is breaking" after hearing the news.

"Bonnie has always been one of the most important women in my life and was a second mother to me," Bertinelli said. "She taught me how to navigate this business and life itself with grace and humor, and to always be true to yourself.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bonniefranklin; hollywood; obituary
RIP
1 posted on 03/02/2013 9:59:40 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

It’s a shame...RIP.

I’ve been looking for that b’tard Ed Asner to die, but he keeps on chugging.


2 posted on 03/02/2013 10:03:38 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I’ve been waiting for Soros, Flynt, and some other big libs to float away.


3 posted on 03/02/2013 10:08:19 AM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Gaffer

Asner is an old fool, but I don’t wish death on him. Only other sheep pay attention to his bleatings. Intelligent people ignore him.


4 posted on 03/02/2013 10:11:24 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Morgana
Earler. 80 comments (or more).
5 posted on 03/02/2013 10:14:31 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: fatnotlazy

I guess that’s okay, too. But he’s still makes a living being a Democrat liberal asswipe. And I don’t feel guilty about wanting him to meet his maker.


6 posted on 03/02/2013 10:15:50 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Morgana

Prayers up... RIP


7 posted on 03/02/2013 10:24:49 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Morgana

RIP


8 posted on 03/02/2013 11:17:57 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Morgana
"One Day at a Time" = Big-City Liberals In a Tiny Apartment.

No. Interest. Whatsoever.

9 posted on 03/02/2013 11:27:02 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Morgana
Would it be crude to use this as an opportunity to establish my intellectual superiority by stating that I have never seen one episode of this insipid 1970s sitcom and that in general, I do not waste the precious hours of my life by sitting in front of a television set pouring forth mindless dreck interspersed with blaring TV ads for hair shampoo, Viagra and menstruation pads?

Now some might argue that my sitting in front of a computer screen is the same thing but I argue back that using a personal computer is a "lean forward" activity that engages the mind as opposed to a "lean back" activity that encourages sloth and inordinate consumption of potato/corn chips, popcorn and cheese doodles.

While some of you are going to the bathroom now to wash the cheese stains off your fingers, allow me to state that I am a Gold member of the Marriott Rewards program and while I stay in hotels 50-75 nights a year, I have never, ever, once turned on the television set in any of the Marriott hotel rooms that I have stayed in.

I do have Netflix on my laptop however and I might on occasion watch a movie, a documentary or perhaps an episode or two of what passes for good television but I do not get the loud commercials and never watch anything with a canned laugh track.

10 posted on 03/02/2013 11:44:37 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Uh, yes, it would be crude.


11 posted on 03/02/2013 11:50:51 AM PST by x
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To: backwoods-engineer
"One Day at a Time" = Big-City Liberals In a Tiny Apartment.

Yup. The basic plot summary of the show was that a woman decided her marriage was too stifling, so she got empowered, divorced her spouse and spent every week struggling to overcome the "obstacles" a paternalistic society threw in her path.

It was really one of the first TV shows that portrayed a woman who without any sense of guilt selfishly ended her marriage because it was too boring and constraining in a positive light and as a role model for female empowerment and independence.
12 posted on 03/02/2013 11:57:45 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: x

OK, thanks. I will not post it then.


13 posted on 03/02/2013 12:06:30 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: tanknetter

It was a horrible show intended to tear down America, as most of Lear’s shows were. We now live in the dumbed-down, liberal-loving America it helped create. Lear’s chickens now roost all over America...


14 posted on 03/02/2013 12:08:09 PM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: tanknetter; backwoods-engineer
“The basic plot summary of the show was that a woman decided her marriage was too stifling, so she got empowered, divorced her spouse and spent every week struggling to overcome the “obstacles” a paternalistic society threw in her path. “

Funny I missed that part. I always saw it as a single woman raising her daughters while being sexually harassed by the buildings maintenance man. Snieder was creepy and they made his stalking funny.

15 posted on 03/02/2013 12:57:21 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: fatnotlazy

The problem is that the bleating sheep far outnumber the intelligent people.


16 posted on 03/02/2013 1:24:31 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
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To: SamAdams76

Franklin’s show was on so many years ago; and we thought it funny at the time. - Good for you on the “intellectual superiority” thing; my SIL shares the same sort of mindset. I’d like to buy her for what she’s worth and sell her for what she THINKS she’s worth. - After almost 50 yrs.; I’m thankful we don’t live near her, and I guess she feels pretty much the same way.


17 posted on 03/02/2013 1:38:29 PM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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