Christopher Willard/ABC via Getty Images Lyn Lear is reminding creatives her late husband, Norman Lear, would want the best for them. After the television pioneer died Wednesday at the age of 101 ...

(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 ...

After serving in the U.S. Air Force and flying missions during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles ... Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, in 1967. “Norman lived a life of creativity, tenacity ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The title of Eric Monte and Mike Evans' Norman Lear-produced sitcom Good Times was ... driven adversity - temporary layoffs, easy credit rip-offs, etc. - interjected with the chorus of "Good ...

But he was Norman Dale, the troubled basketball coach looking for a new start in tiny Hickory, Indiana. “Hoosiers” is based on a true story, but the movie version became the legend.