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 ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wallace didn’t immediately know what his fresh take on the ‘70s Redd Foxx sitcom developed and executive produced by Lear and Bud Yorkin ... I never watched the show, but I kept hearing ...

(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 ...

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 ...