Link: http://vimeo.com/learcenter/normanlear90years90seconds
I picked up a few library books... It is hard to decide where to start reading . 92 years young, Norman Lear was interviewed on
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Lear quotes :
You haven't overcome tghe fear of death until you delight in your own life, believing it to be the carrying out of the uneversal purpose.
- George Bernard Shaw
"In my ninety plus years I've lived a multitude of lives."
Norman Lear
Variety
http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/norman-lear-all-in-the-family-1201340552/
Twenty minutes before “All in the Family” was to debut on the East Coast, Norman Lear was threatening to walk out in protest over CBS censors’ threats to remove one line from the show. On the latest episode of Variety’s “PopPolitics,” airing Thursdays on SiriusXM, Lear explains why it was so important to stand up to the network from the start.
“It was a little battle, but I knew that I just simply had to win that or I would lose from then on,” Lear told host Ted Johnson. That night in 1970, the show aired with the line, and “as I am fond of saying, not one state seceded from the union.” Lear’s memoir, “Even This I Get to Experience,” was recently published.
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Lear also talked about the similarities between the character Archie Bunker and his own father, who he said was a “rascal.”
Huffington Post
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