Director/producer Norman Lear has a three-second cameo approximately 2/3 of the way into the film. He is shown as one of the townspeople sitting down and crying because he is unable to get a cigarette fix.

Cold Turkey: Directed by Norman Lear. With Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton. Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days.

Aug 10, 2015 · Norman Lear should be proud to count it as his only film, even if evidence suggests it failed to help him quit smoking. “I wrote the screenplay for Cold Turkey in a small study off our living room,” he wrote in his autobiography Even This I Get to Experience, “smoking three-plus packs a day and an occasional cigar.”

And the late Duke of Windsor, who is revered in smoke shops around the world for having had his priorities in order, relinquished his rights to the British crown to marry a twice-divorced woman from Baltimore who welcomed his Dunhill cigars (and even his pipes!) in their bedroom.

Jul 29, 2022 · Lear still hosts a weekly cigar smoking club with musician friends, which had to go virtual during the pandemic. "It's been going on so long, and we enjoy each other. Everybody brings their instrument. We sit around a table and sing and play into the early morning," says Lear, who still enjoys his Cuban cigars.

The “Reading Kit” consisted of a rug, an easy chair and ottoman, an end table, an ash tray and a pipe, a smoking jacket, a floor model reading lamp, a record player with an album of Jackie Gleason’s Music to Read By, and, of course, another copy of the script.

Dec 7, 2023 · The movie tells the story of a small town — fictional Eagle Rock, Iowa — that takes up the challenge for all its residents to quit smoking for one month to win a $25 million prize.

Jul 28, 2022 · Norman Lear reflects on life for his 100th birthday: 'I cannot believe a century has passed' By Staff | July 28, 2022 Lear continues his weekly cigar smoking club with friends. … and play into the early morning," says Lear, who still enjoys his Cuban cigars .

Oct 18, 2018 · In the season three episode entitled "The Kiss," Lear flips the script by having Maude wonder if her husband, Walter (Bill Macy), is going through menopause himself when he starts smoking a...

Norman Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows. [1]