"Just hearing the music, already that smile comes on your face. So I said, ‘Let me go to Norman Lear.' I had known him for 30 years and I said, ‘I want to reboot Sanford and Son.' He says ...

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 ...