'Roseanne': The Conners discover you can go home again, especially in an ABC reboot
LOS ANGELES - Roseanne Barr was in no mood to mince words.
Just a few days after she had wrapped the ninth and final season of "Roseanne," her sitcom about the blue-collar Conner family coping with harsh economic times, the lightning rod at the center of the show that revolutionized television when it debuted in 1988 assessed her impact on pop culture.
"I did more things than anybody had ever done on TV," she said on that day in 1997 as she sat in a West Los Angeles office. "I broke through so many barriers that probably only I know what they are. And that is great. I moved the center to the left. I forced the networks to read demographics in ways that were women-friendly, which they had never done before."
She also took stock of the TV landscape she was leaving behind. And
