End of Days at a Time
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One Death in a Lifetime
OrNo More Days at a Time
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That Was It
(Stolen from stiffs.com)Bonnie Franklin, who showed that single fictional women can have it all, except drug-free children, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. One Day at a Time starred Franklin as Ann Romano, newly divorced mother of 2, struggling to deal with parenting, her career, her feminist ideals, sexual harassment, rape and menopause in the sitcom mecca of Indianapolis as series creator Norman Lear continued his frontal assault on traditional American values. Other sitcom tropes explored on the series included Ann battling with her deadbeat ex for child support, her daughter Julie dating a man more than 20 years older than her, both her daughters giving it up like a good girl should in high school, birth control, infidelity and Ann’s fiancé getting killed by a drunk driver. Off screen, they also had Ann’s TV daughter MacKenzie Phillips spending all her time getting high and sleeping with her dad. Those kind of feel-good storylines, plus Pat Harrington as comic relief superintendent Schneider, kept One Day at a Time in the top 20 for 8 (and in the top 10 for 4) of its 10 seasons. A Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Franklin also starred as birth control advocate Margaret Sanger in a TV movie, played Merrill Stubing’s ex-wife on The Love Boat, and reunited with Valerie Bertinelli, this time as her mother-in-law, on Hot in Cleveland in 2011.
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