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 ...

“Clean Slate” stars Laverne Cox stars in one of the legendary Norman Lear’s final shows, which tries to balances a sense of universality with cultural specific stories.

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 ...

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, ...

WALLACE: And, Ayesha, they pay you to do it. RASCOE: Well, you made it - you helped make up this show, and you were working with Norman Lear. Like, what did he tell you when you approached him to ...

(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.

“We’ve been watching Norman Lear shows since the 70s,” Uzoukwu noted. Meanwhile, working with Cox has been life-changing, especially for her older cast members. “She mentors us. She’s ...