Paley, and producer Norman Lear. TW: It was a prime example of him ... character on television had really done before—she was a young married woman navigating her relationship with a left ...

Norman Lear never retired. In the decade leading up ... and too many other classic sitcoms to name teamed up with a younger, noticeably less pale and male, generation of TV talent to update ...

After serving in the U.S. Air Force and flying missions during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles ... as “two of the freshest and brightest young men to sit behind a typewriter in ...

The Jeffersons,” which debuted a half-century ago this year, presented the image of an upwardly mobile Black businessman, ...

(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday, and he’s still got a spring in his step. Lear took to Instagram to reminisce the day before his 100th birthday with a ...

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s ...

At the center of the show is a prototypical crotchety yet goodhearted Lear patriarch ... where his wife died young, and where his son Desmond fled without looking back for 17 years.