By Carla Meyer
McClatchy Newspapers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Somewhere, Archie Bunker is smirking.
“I get ‘Meatheaded’ pretty close to once a day,” Rob Reiner said of the scornful name given his hippie character by his bigoted father-in-law on the landmark 1970s TV series “All in the Family.”
“I don’t mind,” Reiner, the prominent film director and noted liberal political activist, said of the calls of “Meathead” at airports and on the street. He just finds it funny that most of those calling out are young people who have seen the series only in cable reruns.