While Tripp Whitesell's biography, Norman Lear: His Life and Times, is devoted to the man who changed television, the following exclusive conversation looks beyond the shows and Lear himself ...

He would want us to celebrate the important shows you are honoring tonight, and most of all ... he would want us to laugh.” Lyn Lear and Norman Lear Throughout the evening, designed to honor ...

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

Lear paid what was a record-breaking ... “The art that Norman and Lyn collected together is, like his era-defining shows, marked as much by the exploration of ideas as by an exquisite sense ...

The special will be produced by Jimmy Kimmel and the sitcoms' creator Norman Lear Eric Todisco is a former digital news writer at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2021. The holiday season just got a ...

Al Schultz, a top CBS makeup artist for The Carol Burnett Show and several groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcoms including All ...

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind ... “Sanford and Son” and a host of other groundbreaking TV sitcoms, Lear lived and worked through just about every era of Hollywood comedy.

At the center of the show is a prototypical crotchety yet goodhearted Lear patriarch, Wallace’s Harry Slate. Harry has lived for decades in the small Alabama town where he owns a car wash ...

The creator of 'All In The Family,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Maude' and 'One Day at a Time' was still working on new shows The Emmy-winning ... during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles where ...

(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday ... in which celebrities recreate episodes of his old sitcoms, and he also executive-produced the recent remake of ...

This year's show honored the memories of the TV titans ... Lear's impact on television -- specifically when it came to race. Norman Lear dies at 101 years old. Tyler Perry, George Clooney, Jimmy ...