This makes me sad. I learned what divorce was from watching One Day At A Time. I didn’t realize it then, but watching Valerie Bertinelli and her perfectly feathered hair deal with her parents splitting up helped me deal when my own dysfunctional parents irreparably damaged me years later. It was life-shattering and awful….and my wise-cracking-too-familiar handy man never showed up…but at least I knew how to have great hair.
Bonnie Franklin, whose portrayal of a pert but determined Ann Romano on the television show “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s and ’80s spun laughter out of the tribulations of a divorced womanjuggling parenting, career, love life and feminist convictions, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.
The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, family members said. They had announced the diagnosis in September.
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