So I said, ‘Let me go to Norman Lear.' I had known him for 30 years ... who aren't fond of her presence in their pews. Save for Louis' mother Ella (Telma Hopkins) and a small group of older ...
With Norman Lear, I think the novelty of his shows started to wear off. America was in an angry place in 1971 when these shows were first airing—you had the tail end of the civil rights movement ...
His mother, while loving and accepting ... Yet, it keeps things rather lighthearted. Like most Norman Lear productions, there is a tease of controversy, a sense of humanity, and a sense that ...
At the center of the show is a prototypical crotchety yet goodhearted Lear patriarch ... his house is a museum of Desiree’s mother. And the news of her transition certainly comes as a shock ...
(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic ... for his part in a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme, and his mother sent her son to live with relatives he barely knew in Brooklyn.