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Norman Lear


1977 and an individual award in 2016). He received the Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association in 1977. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6615 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts to Lear, noting, "Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it." Also in 1999, he and Bud Yorkin received the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works
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that Lear had teamed with Lin-Manuel Miranda to make an American Masters documentary about Moreno's life, tentatively titled "Rita Moreno: The Girl Who Decided to Go For It." In 1967, Lear was nominated for an Academy Award for writing "Divorce American Style". Lear was among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. He received four Emmy Awards (two in 1971, and one each in 1972 and 1973) and two Peabody Awards (a personal award in
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Geoffrey Cowan


. In 1975, he helped Norman Lear and the Writers Guild of America organize the legal challenge to CBS' Family Viewing Hour, which had forced Lear's program "All in the Family" to move from 8pm to 9pm because its content didn't conform to the newly set Family Viewing Time. Cowan spent more than twenty years teaching law to undergraduates in the UCLA Communication Studies program, received numerous teaching awards and founded the Center for Communication Policy. In 1994, the Center worked with Vice President Al Gore to
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Muhtar Kent Muhtar Kent, Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Bernard J. Arnault Bernard J. Arnault, Chairman & CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Jeffrey R. Immelt, President & CEO, GE Jeffrey Immelt received the 2008 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg delivers speech accepting the 2008 Appeal of
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All in the Family


, hosted by Norman Lear to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary. It featured a compilation of clips from the show's best moments, and interviews with the four main cast members. The special was so well received by the viewing audience CBS aired reruns of "All in the Family" during its summer schedule in 1991, garnering higher ratings than the new series scheduled next to it, Norman Lear's sitcom "Sunday Dinner". The latter was Lear's return to TV series producing after a seven-year absence,
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List of awards and nominations received by The Sopranos


comic drama about a conflicted mob boss makes for mesmerizing television. In doing so, the program has become cable's most watched series ever and gives its creator and co-executive producer David Chase the unparalleled distinction of back-to-back Peabodys for two entertainment programs, "The Sopranos" this year and last and "Northern Exposure" in the early 1990s." "The Sopranos" received 6 Producers Guild of America Award nominations, winning three of them. In addition, David Chase received the Lifetime Norman Lear Achievement
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Steven E. de Souza


game adaptation "Street Fighter" after being introduced to the franchise by his son. Though the film received negative critical reception and failed to spawn an intended franchise, it has since become a cult classic in some circles. In 2000, he was honored with the Norman Lear Award for Lifetime Achievement in writing. In 2004, he received the Dr. Bird award, which is given for achievement in the arts to people of Jamaican descent. De Souza appeared in the feature-length documentary "Dreams on Spec," which profiled
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Roberto Orci


, which had been directed by Rodriguez. But following the production of the first season, the series was cancelled despite the earlier renewal. This decision was blamed on poor international sales. He is engaged to actress, dancer and screenwriter Adele Heather Taylor. "The Hollywood Reporter" listed Orci as one of the 50 most powerful Latinos in Hollywood of 2007. His first solo accolade was the Norman Lear Writer's Award at the Imagen Awards in 2009. He described the experience of receiving an award without Kurtzman as "bizarre"
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Anthony Sparks


in 2018 as part of the Queen Sugar Season 2 producing team for Outstanding Television Drama. Sparks was also nominated for several 2017 NAACP Image Awards—two for Queen Sugar (an individual nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series and a team nomination for Outstanding Drama Series)-- and he received another 2017 nomination for Outstanding Literature/Instructional Book for writing & co-editing an academic book, Running the Long Race in Gifted Education. Sparks also received individual 2008 and 2009 Sentinel Health Awards from the Norman Lear Center for his work as
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Trey Parker's wedding. Lear is spotlighted in the 2016 documentary "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You". In 2017, Lear served as executive producer for "One Day at a Time", the reboot of his 1975-1984 show of the same name that premiered on Netflix starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as a Cuban-American family. He has hosted a podcast, "All of the Above with Norman Lear", since May 1, 2017. On July 29, 2019, it was announced
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Michael Easton


the Midwest and end up facing worse horror than either had imagined, and ultimately confront their fates. Straub's novels have received several notable honors, including the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award. "The Green Woman" was his first graphic novel collaboration. Screenplays Easton’s screenplay "Beautiful Loser", a biopic of Montgomery Clift, is currently in development. Producer Norman Lear subsequently tapped him to write the screenplay "Queen of Jazz", about Ella Fitzgerald’s life and legacy.
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Imagen Awards


The Imagen Awards are administered by the Imagen Foundation, an organization dedicated to "encouraging and recognizing the positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry." To be considered for an Imagen Award, a media piece or person must go through an entry process. Helen Hernandez is president of the Imagen Foundation. In 1983, founder Helen Hernandez met with prolific television writer and producer Norman Lear. "Lear was acutely aware of the near absence of positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry and understood the importance of positive images.
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Norman Lear Center


The Norman Lear Center is a multi-disciplinary research and public policy center exploring implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society. It is based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Through scholarship and research, and its programs of visiting fellows, conferences, public events and publications, the Lear Center works to be at the forefront of discussion and practice in the field. The Center is named for benefactor Norman Lear, the social activist and philanthropist, and television producer, and was founded and is directed by
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interview with The Jewish Journal journalist Rob Eshman, Lear described himself as a "total Jew" but never a practicing one. In 1989, Lear founded the Business Enterprise Trust, an educational program that used annual awards, business school case studies, and videos to spotlight exemplary social innovations in American business until it ended in 1998. In 2000, he provided an endowment for a multidisciplinary research and public policy center that explored the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. It was
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later named the Norman Lear Center in recognition. Lear serves on the National Advisory Board of the Young Storytellers Foundation. He has written articles for "The Huffington Post". Lear is a trustee emeritus at The Paley Center for Media. In 2001, Lear and his wife, Lyn, purchased a Dunlap broadside—one of the first published copies of the United States Declaration of Independence—for $8.1 million. Not a document collector, Lear said in a press release and on the "Today" show that his intent
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Television Hall of Fame


of the Hall of Fame until his death in January 1988. He was succeeded by Edgar Scherick, who in turn passed the reins to Norman Lear. The first ceremony in 1984 celebrated the careers of Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman Lear, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley and David Sarnoff. The honorees received glass statuettes in the form of two ballet dancers that were created by sculptor and painter Pascal to reflect the self-discipline required in all facets of the arts. Since 1988, inductees have
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Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463d Operations Group of the Fifteenth Air Force; he also described bombing Germany in the European theater. Lear flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945, and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the books "Crew Umbriag", by Daniel P. Carroll (tail gunner), and "772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories", by Turner Publishing and
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most successful independent TV producers of the 1970s. TAT produced the influential and award-winning 1981 film "The Wave" about Ron Jones' social experiment. Lear also developed the cult favorite TV series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" ("MH MH") which was turned down by the networks as "too controversial" and placed it into first run syndication with 128 stations in January 1976. A year later, Lear added another program into first-run syndication along with "MH MH", "All That
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Ebertfest


the same business that makes the Oscar statuette. The first Roger Ebert Humanitarian Award was presented in 2016 to co-directors Andrew Young and Stephen Apkon for their documentary film "Disturbing the Peace." The film focuses on the work of Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who put down their weapons and began working together for peace in the region. In 2017, the second Ebert Humanitarian Award was presented to Norman Lear for "a lifetime of empathy". Lear was the first person to
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Amy Sherman-Palladino


woman in history to win in the comedy writing and directing categories at the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, she received the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America. Sherman-Palladino is the founder of Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions. She is known for her trademark rapid-fire dialogue, which is often full of obscure pop culture references, and as well for her preferred master shot filming style. Sherman-Palladino was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are comedian Don Sherman,
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Brent Miller (producer)


Festival in 2016 where it received a standing ovation. The film was later released theatrically, followed by a PBS broadcast on American Masters for which it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Miller's first Primetime Emmy Nomination. The film examines the career of notable television producer, writer, and activist Norman Lear and received rave reviews from multiple media outlets, including Variety who praised it as a "sprightly, brightly assembled celebration of the veteran showrunner," Matt Zoller Seitz who called it "
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received positive reviews, but ratings were low and it was eventually canceled after one season, with the finale show airing September 4, 1998. In 2003 Lear made an appearance on "South Park" during the "I'm a Little Bit Country" episode, providing the voice of Benjamin Franklin. He also served as a consultant on the episodes "I'm a Little Bit Country" and "Cancelled". Lear has attended a "South Park" writers' retreat, and served as the officiant at co-creator
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Soft Touch


other on stage during their shows in Hamburg in the early 1960s. As further background to "Soft Touch", she recalls that she and Harrison were joined in the Virgin Islands by comedian Eric Idle of Monty Python, and that the noise they created attracted complaints from television producer Norman Lear and his wife, activist and journalist Frances Lear, who were staying in the neighbouring house. Olivia adds that, once the Lears learned that it was George Harrison who was responsible for the loud music, Norman Lear "again knocked on
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Rita Moreno


", a remake produced by Norman Lear of Lear's 1975–84 sitcom. The first season premiered in January 2017. Critics overall praised the show, and especially the performances of Moreno and the series' star, Justina Machado. Moreno's Broadway credits include "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1969), the very short-lived musical "Gantry" (1970) and "The Ritz", for which she won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. She appeared in the female version of "The
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Norman Lear Center


popular culture; and Hollywood, Health & Society, which provides entertainment industry professionals with accurate and timely information for health storylines. Hollywood, Health & Society is funded by, and works closely with such governmental agencies as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Cancer Institute. That program hosts its annual Sentinel for Health Awards to recognize exemplary television storylines that best inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives. Since 2005, the Lear Center’s Grand
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that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. On May 12, 2017, Lear was awarded the fourth annual Woody Guthrie Prize presented by the Woody Guthrie Center based in Tulsa, Okla. The event took place in the Clive Davis Theater at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The Woody Guthrie Prize is given annually to an artist who exemplifies the spirit and life work of Guthrie by speaking for the less fortunate through music, literature, film, dance or other art forms and serving as a positive force for
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Norman Lear


Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced many 1970s sitcoms such as "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "The Jeffersons", "Good Times", and "Maude". As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes. Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Jeanette
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, including Rob Reiner's next three films: "The Sure Thing", "Stand By Me", and "The Princess Bride", as well as "Fried Green Tomatoes". He is the godfather of actress and singer Katey Sagal. On February 2, 1989, Norman Lear's Act III Communications formed a joint venture with Columbia Pictures Television called "Act III Television" to produce television series instead of managing. Lear attempted to return to TV production in the 1990s with the shows "Sunday Dinner",
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All in the Family


and was cancelled after the six-week tryout run due to being poorly received by audiences. On May 22, 2019, ABC broadcast "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons", produced by Lear and Jimmy Kimmel and starring Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, Kerry Washington and Ellie Kemper. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment) released the first six seasons of "All in the Family" on
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Mary Kay Place


. She was hired for "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" in the 1970s as a production assistant to both Conway and producer Norman Lear. Conway gave her her first on-camera break, while Lear saw to it that Place received her first writing credit on his subsequent "All in the Family". On the episode, she and actress Patty Weaver sang "If Communism Comes Knocking on Your Door, Don't Answer It." She appeared in the third-season episode of "M*A*S*H" titled "Springtime"
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Don Mischer


Donald Leo "Don" Mischer (born March 5, 1940) is an American producer and director of television and live events and President of Don Mischer Productions. Mischer has been honored with fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America and the 2019 Director’s Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award for Television”. As a producer/
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Archie Bunker


Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series (three were missed because of a contract dispute between Carroll O'Connor and Norman Lear in ). Archie was modeled after Norman Lear's father Herman Lear and on Alf Garnett from the BBC1 sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part". In 1999, "TV Guide" ranked Archie Bunker number 5 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In 2005, Archie Bunker was listed as number 1 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, defeating runners-up such
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Norman Lear


("née" Seicol) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a traveling salesman. His mother was born in Elizabethgrad in Kherson Gubernia in Ukraine, while his father was born in Connecticut, to Russian-born parents. He had a younger sister, Claire Lear Brown (1925–2015). Lear grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. When Lear was nine years old, his father went to prison for selling fake bonds. Lear thought of his father as a "rascal" and said that
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Mark Burnett


in the World Today. Burnett was also named "Philanthropist of the Year" by the Reality Cares Foundation. He has won both Brandweek's "Marketer of the Year Award", the prestigious Rose d’Or Frapa Format Award, the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award and the Norman Lear Award from the Producers Guild of America. Burnett served for two years on the Board of Directors for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In November 2007, Burnett was elected into the Broadcast & Cable Hall of Fame and in 2008, it
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José Rivera (playwright)


and "Each Day Dies With Sleep", Rivera discusses his experiences as a Puerto Rican in a small American town, with an emphasis on family, sexuality, spirituality and the occult. "Marisol" was inspired by the situation of his homeless uncle. Rivera has won two Obie Awards for playwriting, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American plays Grant, a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in playwriting, a Whiting Award, a McKnight Fellowship, the 2005 Norman Lear Writing Award, a 2005 Impact Award and a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award
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Barbara S. Brogliatti


. She rose through the CBS publicity ranks and was then tapped by producer Norman Lear to create and head publicity operations for his fast-growing companies (Tandem Productions, TAT Communications and ELP Communications). Eleven years later, when Lear sold his companies, Brogliatti joined Lorimar as the head of Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and Investor Relations. When Warner Communications bought Lorimar in 1989, Brogliatti left to form her own public relations and marketing firm—The Brogliatti Company—handling such clients as Norman Lear, Haim Saban, Jean
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40th International Emmy Awards


The 40th International Emmy Awards took place on November 19, 2012, at the Hilton Hotel in New York City, United States. The ceremony, hosted by Regis Philbin, also presented a special Founders Award to Ryan Murphy, Alan Alda and Norman Lear. The Directorate Award was presented to Kim In-Kyu, president and CEO of Korean Broadcasting System. A special issue on the 40th edition of the awards aired on December 9, 2012 by MGM Portugal. The nominees for the 40th International Emmy Awards were announced by International
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Mark Gordon


at Circle in the Square downtown. In the television arena, Gordon currently serves as an executive producer on "Grey's Anatomy", "Criminal Minds", "Ray Donovan", "Quantico", and the franchise spin-off "" for CBS. In 2015 Gordon was honored by the Producers Guild of America with the Norman Lear Award for achievement in television. Gordon is a five-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and two-time winner. Additionally, he won a Golden Globe Award for his work on
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Roberto Orci


would only collaborate in television projects, and Orci worked on the third "Star Trek" film, "Star Trek Beyond", until being replaced the following December. Orci created the television series "Matador" for the El Rey Network, but after this was initially renewed, it was cancelled at the end of the first season. Both Kurtzman and Orci continue to work as producers on the television series "Limitless" and "Scorpion". Orci was awarded the Norman Lear Writer's Award and the Raul Julia Award for
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Syed Ata Hasnain


. His unique and innovative approach defined as "Playing Friend Not God" has been widely appreciated as the new HR management mantra across domains in and outside the military. On 7 Sep 2013, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain was awarded his first civilian honor by the Capital Foundation Society of Delhi. He received the award from the Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari. The award was for Military leadership of an exceptional order. On 9 Sep 2013, the General Officer spoke at the Global Town Hall organized by the US
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Ralph Carter


The Me Nobody Knows". After runs in "Tough To Get Help", "Dude" and "Via Galactica", he landed his breakout role as Travis Younger in "Raisin". For which, he won the 1973 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer as well as the 1974 Theatre World Award, and a nomination for the 1974 Tony Award in the category for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Musical. Norman Lear was enjoying huge success in the 1970s, with the hit televisions series "All in
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on Lear's wife, was actually the brainchild of series writer Charlie Hauck; however, Frances herself would acknowledge that the show's title character was based on her. Lear's longtime producing partner was Bud Yorkin, who also produced "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "What's Happening!!", "Maude", and "The Jeffersons". Yorkin split with Lear in 1975. He started a production company with writer/producers Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein, but they had
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only two shows that ran more than a year: "What's Happening!!" and "Carter Country". The Lear/Yorkin company was known as Tandem Productions that was founded in 1958. Lear and talent agent Jerry Perenchio founded T.A.T. Communications (T.A.T. stood for "Tuchus Affen Tisch", which is Yiddish for "Putting one's butt on the line") in 1974, which co-existed with Tandem Productions and was often referred to in periodicals as Tandem/T.A.T. The Lear organization was one of the
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Norman Lear


them at the White House earlier in the evening. Variety magazine's senior editor Ted Johnson reacted with statements such as "That in and of itself will be an interesting moment, as Lear and Estefan have been particularly outspoken against Trump and his policies." It was afterwards announced that Lear would boycott the White House reception. In the end, the President and Mrs. Trump did not attend. In addition to his success as a TV producer and businessman, Lear is an outspoken supporter of First Amendment and liberal causes. The
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Jonathan Lear


Before moving to Chicago permanently in 1996, Lear taught philosophy at Cambridge University (1979-1985), where he was a Fellow of Clare College and Yale University (1978–79, 1985-1996). He was previously married to the political scientist Cynthia Farrar, of the Farrar publishing dynasty, and is currently married to Gabriel Richardson Lear, a fellow member of the philosophy department at Chicago who also works on ancient philosophy. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the nephew of Norman Lear, and
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"The Powers That Be", and "704 Hauser", the last one putting a different family in the house from "All in the Family". None of the series proved successful. Lear's Act III Communications was founded in 1986 and led initially by Tom McGrath, who met Lear while negotiating on behalf of Coca-Cola the acquisition of Lear's old company, and later by Hal Gaba, a former Embassy Pictures executive. This included: Act III Theatres, sold to KKR in 1997; Act III
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Sada Thompson


"All in the Family". After taping her first episode, however, she was replaced by Betty Garrett, when it became obvious that she and producer Norman Lear had different opinions about how the character should be played. Her portrayal of matriarch Kate Lawrence on "Family" won her the 1978 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and garnered her three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama. She was nominated for the Emmy Award nine times, winning once. Thompson
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Geri Jewell


well as the first actor with cerebral palsy to be featured on a TV series. After she dropped out of college, Jewell began her career doing stand up comedy at The Comedy Store in 1978. In 1980, she performed at the 2nd Annual Media Access Awards, when she was introduced to Norman Lear by producer, Fern Field. Jewell appeared as the recurring character Jewel on the HBO original series "Deadwood" from 2004—2006 and in its . She has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1992 Founders Award,
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John Forsythe


end in 1989, after nine seasons. Forsythe was the only actor to appear in all 220 episodes. Forsythe was nominated for Emmy Awards three times between 1982 and 1984 for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" but did not win. He was also nominated six times for Golden Globe Awards, winning twice. He was nominated five times for the "Soap Opera Digest" Awards, also winning twice. In 1992, after a three-year absence, Forsythe returned to series television starring in Norman Lear's situation
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Conscience Foundation Public Service Award Sep 23, 2008 Remarks by Deputy Secretary John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary highlights honorees at the 2008 ACF Annual Awards Dinner Sep 23, 2008 Address by Nicolas Sarkozy President of the French Republic is recipient of the 2008 Appeal of Conscience World Statesman Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Henry A. Kissinger Henry Kissinger gives address on behalf of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, at the ACF 2008 Annual Awards Dinner Sep 21, 2005 Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Acceptance of the World Statesman Award on behalf of
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Act III Communications


Act III Communications is a diversified media and entertainment company owned by TV producer Norman Lear. It was started in 1985 following Lear's sale of Embassy Communications to The Coca-Cola Company. In a Wall St. Journal interview in 1988, Lear explained the name by noting that in a Shakespeare play there are always more than three acts and that he expects there to be an Act IV and V. Act III is Lear's business vehicle and is unconnected to his other activities as a political activist and philanthropist. Among the many activities
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Harold Gaba


joined Lear, Bud Yorkin and Jerry Perenchio at Tandem Productions as an acquisitions consultant. In 1990, Gaba became President and Chief Executive Officer of Norman Lear's Act III Communications, a multimedia holding company with interests in broadcasting, movie theaters, trade magazine publishing, motion picture and television production and music. In 1999, Lear and Gaba became co-owners of Concord Records, which was founded as a small jazz label in Concord, California in 1973. In 2006 Gaba and Lear, joined by their long time colleague Michael
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, Elaine, married to Ed Simmons, who wanted to be a comedy writer. Simmons and Lear teamed up to sell home furnishings door-to-door for a company called The Gans Brothers and later sold family photos door-to-door. Throughout the 1950s Lear and Simmons turned out comedy sketches for television appearances of Martin and Lewis, Rowan and Martin, and others. They frequently wrote for Martin and Lewis when they appeared on the Colgate Comedy Hour and a 1953 article from "Billboard" magazine stated that Lear
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Glitters". He planned in 1977 to offer three hours of prime-time Saturday programming directly, with the stations placing his production company in the position of an occasional network. In 1980, Lear founded the organization People for the American Way for the purpose of counteracting the Christian right organization Moral Majority, founded in 1979. In the fall of 1981 Lear began a 14-month run as the host of a revival of the classic game show "Quiz Kids" for the CBS Cable Network. In January 1982 Lear and Jerry Perenchio
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons


illiteracy. The epithets "nigger" and "honky" were used occasionally, especially during the earlier seasons. The special was announced on April 19, 2019: Kimmel has deemed "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" as his favorite TV series of all-time, and stated that "the fact that a group of Oscar winners eagerly agreed to play these iconic characters is a testament to the greatness of these shows and their creator, Norman Lear." On May 10, 2019, it was announced
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David Bollier


David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010. Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website, Bollier.org. Bollier
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Sanford and Son


. The series was produced by Norman Lear's and Bud Yorkin's Tandem Productions, which was also responsible for "All in the Family". The two shows were both based on popular British sitcoms and both were pioneers of edgy, racial humor that reflected the changing politics of the time. Both series also featured outspoken, working-class protagonists with overt prejudices. However, "Sanford and Son" differed from "All in the Family" and other Norman Lear shows of the era in that it lacked the element of
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Isabel Sanford


which earned her good reviews. She caught the attention of major Hollywood players, including Norman Lear, who cast Sanford in the role of Louise Jefferson in "All in the Family". Sanford and her TV husband, Sherman Hemsley, were so popular that Norman Lear decided to spin-off the characters into their own weekly series, "The Jeffersons". Sanford was initially reluctant to commit to working on a weekly series, as she was already working steadily, but decided to accept the offer. "The Jeffersons"
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Laugh track


found more pleasing because it had a better comic rhythm and helped them write better jokes. Creator Norman Lear's "All in the Family" (CBS, 1971–1979) followed suit in 1971. Videotaped live, Lear was more spontaneous; he wanted the studio audience to act like the performer, with hopes of the two developing a rapport with each other. Lear was not a fan of pretaped audiences, resulting in no laugh track being employed, not even during post-production when Lear could have had the luxury of sweetening
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the character of Archie Bunker (whom Lear depicted as white Protestant on the show) was in part inspired by his father, while the character of Edith Bunker was in part inspired by his mother. Lear graduated from Weaver High School in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1940 and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces. Lear enlisted in the United States Army in September 1942. He served in the Mediterranean theater as a radio operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying
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Norman Lear


and Simmons were guaranteed a record-breaking $52,000 each to write for five additional Martin and Lewis appearances on the Colgate Comedy Hour that year. In a 2015 interview with Vanity Magazine Lear said that Jerry Lewis had hired him and Simmons to become writers for Martin and Lewis three weeks before the comedy duo made their first appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950. Lear also acknowledged in 1986 that he and Simmons were the main writers for The Martin and Lewis Show for three years. In 1954 Lear was enlisted as a
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Rupert Goold


London Palladium production, which was nominated for three Olivier Awards. In 2009, Goold directed a revival of Shakespeare's "King Lear" at the Young Vic. Goold set his "Lear" in Northern England during the 1970s, fascinated by the fact that during this decade, Britain was enduring the power of women. He approached the play with a drastically different view, and as a result this production received mixed reviews. In 2009 he again won Best Director at the Evening Standard Awards for "ENRON". Since 2010
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Heidi Ewing


honored with a Peabody Award. "Detropia", a poetic look at Ewing's home town, also won several awards, including Best Editing at Sundance 2012, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Original Score, at the 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking and a News and Documentary Emmy for editing. "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" was the opening night selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on PBS American Masters on October 25, 2016. Other films as a director include "The Boys of Baraka
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Jerry G. Bishop


-TV, where he assumed the co-host chair of the long-running morning-talk program "Sun-Up San Diego." He collected three local Emmy Awards and a National Press Club Award for his work on the show, which he co-hosted for twelve years until its cancellation in 1990. In 1980, he served as local moderator of the discussion segment of the innovative Norman Lear project "The Baxters"; the segment was titled "The Baxters with Bishop." In 1992, he worked
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Marty Kaplan


Marty Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the founding director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of the impact of entertainment on society. His career has also spanned government and politics, the entertainment industry and journalism. Kaplan graduated from Harvard College "summa cum laude" in molecular biology and won the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize for delivering the English Oration at commencement. He was president of the "Harvard Lampoon" and of the Signet Society
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons


Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons is a television special that was broadcast by ABC on May 22, 2019. Conceptualized and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the special featured live recreations of episodes of the sitcom "All in the Family" and its spin-off "The Jeffersons", featuring all-star casting. The special focused upon two episodes involving George Jefferson (who was played in the special by Jamie Foxx), with "All in the Family"
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons


prosperous African-American couple who have been able to move from Queens to Manhattan owing to the success of George's dry-cleaner chain. The show was launched as the second spin-off of "All in the Family", on which the Jeffersons had been the neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker. The show was the creation of Norman Lear. "The Jeffersons" eventually evolved into more of a traditional sitcom but did reference such issues as alcoholism, racism, suicide, gun control, being transgender, and adult
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In the Beginning (TV series)


In the Beginning is an American sitcom originally created by Norman Lear, Jim Mulligan and Norman Steinberg and produced by Lear's Tandem Productions company. The show aired on CBS from September 20 to October 18, 1978, and was cancelled after its first five episodes aired. The series, a semi-update of the film "Going My Way", featured conservative priest Father Cleary and liberal, streetwise nun Sister Agnes (known as "Aggie") running a ghetto mission together in Baltimore. While Aggie was from the area
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People for the American Way


People For the American Way (PFAW ()) is a liberal advocacy group in the United States. Organized as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, PFAW was registered in 1981 by the television producer Norman Lear who founded the organization in 1980 to challenge the Christian right agenda of the Moral Majority. PFAW was founded by the television producer Norman Lear in opposition to the publicized agenda of the Moral Majority, a prominent and influential American political organization associated with the Christian right. Officially incorporated on September 4, 1980, its
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Sunday Dinner (TV series)


Sunday Dinner is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from June 2, 1991, until July 7, 1991. The series was produced by Norman Lear, and marked his return to television producing after an absence of several years. Lear's current wife Lyn Davis Lear served as co-producer on the series, which was the first official Lear show to be made under his latest production marquee Act III Television. The series starred Robert Loggia as Ben Benedict, a widowed 56-year-old businessman in Long Island who falls in
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Norman Lear


Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart accused Lear of being an atheist and holding an anti-Christian bias. In the January 21, 1987 issue of Christian Century, Lear associate Martin E. Marty, a Lutheran professor who taught church history at the University of Chicago Divinity School between 1963 and 1998, refuted the allegations and stated that the television producer had praised the moral values of various religions and had personally praised his interpretation of Christianity. Marty also noted that while Lear and his family were never followers of the Orthodox Judaism that was practiced
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Brent Miller (producer)


the second season in 2018 alongside executive producers Norman Lear, Gretchen Carlson, and Jussie Smollett. Notable correspondents included Norman Lear, Gretchen Carlson, Common, Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Peter Sarsgaard, Jussie Smollett, Jesse Williams, Diane Guerrero, Nick Offerman, and Martin Sensmeier. Miller brought the idea of reimagining the 1975 CBS sitcom "One Day at a Time" to Sony Pictures Television, which owns the rights to the original series. The contemporary version, centered on a Cuban American
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Shawn Ryan


, and "Mad Dogs" (2015–16). Shawn Ryan grew up in Rockford, Illinois. His mother is a schoolteacher and his father is a CPA. He said he had "a very good family upbringing" and was interested in 1970 sitcoms as a child. After graduating from Middlebury College, Ryan got his start in television when he entered and won the Norman Lear Playwriting award sponsored by Columbia Pictures Television (which later became Sony). The award included a $25,000 cash gift and meetings with Columbia's top
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Harvest (Numbers)


second case study was about TV's influence on the discussion of organ donations. Participants in a Hollywood Health & Society online survey were also more likely to believe in the existence of black-market organ trafficking and were more likely to donate organs after watching "Harvest". They also were more likely to see the importance of organ donations. "Harvest" has won one award and been nominated for a second. It won the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication's Norman Lear Center 2006 Sentinel for Health Award in
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Linda Lear


1997; two years later it received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize from the History of Science Society. She has continued to write extensively on Carson, contributing introductions to a variety of new editions of her works and editing her unpublished writings for publication. Lear is also the author of a biography of Beatrix Potter, titled "Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature", published in 2007; it has received various awards, including the Lakeland Book of the Year, the Bookends Prize for biography, and
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Act III Publishing


Act III Publishing was a company that published a number of trade magazines that covered the Media, Publishing, Music and Television Industries. The company was in business from 1985 to approximately 1991/92 when the various titles were sold to a variety of other publishers and the remaining titles were shut down. Act III Publishing was owned by the famous TV producer/writer Norman Lear who held a controlling interest through his company Act III Communications. The company was based in New York City. Norman Lear acquired "Channels" magazine in 1985,
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The Martha Raye Show


, the choreographer would later be involved in such pictures as "The Sunshine Boys" and "Steel Magnolias". Hiken and writer Billy Friedberg left at the end of the 1953-1954 transitional season, and were replaced by Norman Lear and Ed Simmons, formerly of the "Colgate Comedy Hour". Lear, who also held the title of producer, went on to create CBS's "All in the Family" and its successful spin-offs. Lear and Simmons largely followed the route that Hiken had blazed, and
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Jos Vantyler


the OffWestEnd Awards and received the Theatre Choice Awards for Outstanding Performance In a New Play. In September 2013, Sir Jonathan Miller directed the Gala Performance of William Shakespeare's "King Lear" at The Old Vic in London. Vantyler played Oswald opposite, Joss Ackland as King Lear, Michael York, Tony Robinson, Greta Scacchi, Honeysuckle Weeks, John Nettles, Robert Young, Tony Britton, Shaun Dooley, Barrie Rutter and Felicity Dean. In 2015, Vantyler played the intelligence officer and Foreign Office official Guy Burgess, in
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Heartsounds


point of view of the patient, something they seem not to be prepared for, and learn about each other along the way, as Harold's health slowly declines over a four-year period. On her husband's double bypass coronary operation, Martha Lear wrote: The book was made into a television movie in 1984 by Harold Lear's cousin, television writer and producer Norman Lear, with ABC, and Embassy Television. The script was drafted by Fay Kanin, who also was one of the co-producers, along
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Anthony Hopkins


Lear" with the help of his devoted dresser, Norman. Hopkins described his role as Sir as "the highlight of my life". "It was a chance to work with the actors I had run away from. To play another actor is fun because you know the ins and outs of their thinking – especially with someone like Sir, who is a diabolically insecure, egotistical man." Hopkins starred as Lear in the 2018 television film "King Lear" broadcast on BBC Two on 28 May 2018. Hopkins has
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All That Glitters (TV series)


into his role. He was doing play-by-play reporting for a Los Angeles television station owned by Lear's partner, Jerry Perenchio. "Lear casually asked if I'd be interested in the part. I said yes, but knew it was out of the question, because in real life things don't happen that way. Nobody walks in and gets on a Norman Lear show. I read for the part, got it and didn't sleep at all that night." Linda Gray was somewhat non-
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Norman Lear


The show was based loosely on the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part", about an irascible working-class Tory and his Socialist son-in-law. Lear's second big TV sitcom was also based on a British sitcom, "Steptoe and Son", about a west London junk dealer and his son. Lear changed the setting to the Watts section of Los Angeles and the characters to African-Americans, and the NBC show "Sanford and Son" was an instant hit. Numerous hit shows followed
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Broadcasting, sold to Abry Communications; and Act III Publishing, sold to PriMedia. Lear is also the owner of Concord Records, and in 2005 consummated a 50% interest in the film library and production assets of Village Roadshow Productions Pty Ltd. In 1997 Lear and Jim George produced the Kids' WB cartoon series "Channel Umptee-3". It premiered on the Saturday-morning lineup on October 25, 1997. The cartoon was the first to meet the Federal Communications Commission's then-new educational/informal programming requirements. It
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704 Hauser


the first episode. Norman Lear created the series during the time when conservative talk radio was experiencing its initial upswing in popularity in the United States, particularly in the form of Rush Limbaugh. Lear felt that the time was right for a new show to explore some of the issues being discussed, and "704 Hauser" was even more explicitly political than "All in the Family". John Amos, a veteran of the earlier Lear sitcom "Good Times" (itself a spin-off of the "All in the
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Norman Lear Center


Avenue Intervention Project has been a driving force behind the civic outreach for the planning of a new park in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. In partnership with the "Los Angeles Times," the Lear Center solicited design proposals from the public and published a selection of them in a special section of the Times. The Lear Center's publishing imprint has published several works of scholarship such as Artists, Technology & The Ownership of Creative Content, Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, Frank Capra
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Brent Miller (producer)


Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. While working as a freelance event planner, Miller was hired to work exclusively in collaboration with Norman Lear in planning a series of events for Lear's 85th birthday. After the events concluded, Lear offered Miller a position with his company, Act III Productions. Although there was no specific role for Miller, they continued their collaboration by co-producing the Declare Yourself "Unofficial" Presidential Inaugural Ball in 2009. The event was hosted by Jessica Alba and featured live performances by Jamie
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Heartsounds


with Fern Field, and the film was directed by Glenn Jordan. The film score was composed by Leonard Rosenman. James Garner played the part of Harold Lear, while Mary Tyler Moore played Martha Lear. It also stars Sam Wanamaker, as Moe Silverman, and Wendy Crewson, as Judy. Norman Lear was the executive producer for the project. The movie was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with additional exterior footage shot in New York City, New York. Toronto stood in for New York City for economic reasons
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The 200th Episode Celebration of All in the Family


the 200th episode of "All in the Family" and is hosted by the show's creator, Norman Lear. Lear addresses a theater filled with 100 couples who have traveled from 48 states for the celebration and explains that the evening will feature "choice moments" from the long-running series. A variety of episode clips are then screened, grouped thematically by topic, including groundbreaking television moments, political arguments between Mike and Archie, Edith's character, Christianity, Archie's bigotry and human sexuality. Between screenings, Lear
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King Lear (1987 film)


King Lear is a 1987 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the style of experimental French New Wave cinema. The script was primarily by Peter Sellars and Tom Luddy, and was originally assigned to Norman Mailer. It is not a typical cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous tragedy, although some lines from the play are used in the film. Only three characters – Lear, Cordelia and Edgar – are common to both, and only Act I, scene 1 is given a conventional
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Woody Kling


became head writer. While on "Burnett", producer Norman Lear offered Kling the position of head writer on a new emerging show called "All in the Family". Ironically, Lear had offered the starring role in the show to Kling's previous star Gleason, and then to Mickey Rooney, who 12 months later toured the country with a play written by Kling. Under Kling, "All in the Family" became a huge hit for CBS and Lear. Kling drew some of the show's most memorable episodes from
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Norman Lear


writer hoping to salvage the new Celeste Holm CBS sitcom, "Honestly, Celeste!", but the program was canceled after eight episodes. During this time, he became the producer of NBC's "The Martha Raye Show", after Nat Hiken left as the series director. Lear also wrote some of the opening monologues for "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show", which aired from 1956 to 1961. In 1959 Lear created his first television series, a half-hour western for Revue Studios called "The Deputy"
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Norman Lear


in-house television productions and the television rights to the Embassy theatrical library) for $485 million in shares of The Coca-Cola Company. Lear and Perenchio split the net proceeds (about $250 million). Coke later sold the film division to Dino De Laurentiis and the home video arm to Nelson Holdings (led by Barry Spikings). In his book "Even This I Get To Experience", Lear stated that he was the one who produced the four-day Liberty Weekend special which aired during the 1986
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Norman Lear


only time that he did not support the Democratic candidate for President was in 1980. He supported John Anderson because he considered the Carter administration to be "a complete disaster." In 1981, Lear founded People For the American Way (PFAW), a progressive advocacy organization. PFAW ran several advertising campaigns opposing the interjection of religion in politics. Lear has long been a vocal critic of the ideas held by the Conservatives and Christians and has advocated for the advancement of secularism. Prominent Conservatives and Christians such as Pat Robertson,
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Norman Lear


was to tour the document around the United States so that the country could experience its "birth certificate" firsthand. Through the end of 2004, the document traveled throughout the United States in the Declaration of Independence Roadtrip, which Lear organized, visiting several presidential libraries, dozens of museums, as well as the 2002 Olympics, Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia. Lear and Rob Reiner produced a filmed, dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence—the last project filmed by famed cinematographer Conrad Hall—
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Priscilla Lopez


"Extremities", "The Oldest Profession", "Beauty of the Father" and "Class Mothers '68", for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Actress. She also was featured in the City Center Encores! production of "Babes in Arms". Lopez starred as a liberal nun in an unsuccessful Norman Lear series "In the Beginning" with McLean Stevenson in 1978. She had a guest role on the ABC drama "Family", starring Kristy McNichol and Sada Thompson; she
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Bernie West


"The Phil Silvers Show", and a guest appearance on "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.". After submitting a script for the show in 1971, West and partner Mickey Ross became writers for Norman Lear's "All in the Family", working with another partner, Don Nicholl, as producers. West won an Emmy Award in 1973 for his writing on the episode "The Bunkers and the Swingers", together with Ross and Lee Kalcheim. The writing team created the character played by Bea Arthur as the lead in the
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Norman Winarsky


at SUNY at Albany. In 2000, Norman and his team received an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in technological advancement. In addition, he has received RCA's highest honor, the Sarnoff Award. Norman graduated with a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and was awarded Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In addition he was awarded the Paul J. Cohen award for the outstanding student in Mathematics. Winarsky earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, a Master of Science in 1970,
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Act III Communications


was divested to KKR in 1997 for just under $700 million while Concord Music Group was divested in 2013 to Wood Creek Capital for $115 million. Act III/Lear continue to own the two Rob Reiner directed films it produced, "Stand By Me" and "The Princess Bride". Act III/Lear continues to hold an interest in Village Roadshow Pictures/Village Roadshow Entertainment. Through a group led by Act III Communications, in January 2006, Norman Lear and his partner Hal Gaba purchased 50% of Village
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Archie Bunker


being used in the media in 2008, to describe a certain group of voters who voted in that year's U.S. presidential election. Commentating on "BBC Newsnight", political commentator Conrad Black referred to Donald Trump as having secured the "Archie Bunker vote" during the 2016 presidential election. Norman Lear originally intended that Bunker be strongly disliked by audiences. Lear was shocked when Bunker quietly became a beloved figure to much of middle America. Lear thought that Bunker's opinions on race, sex, marriage, and religion were so
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Tandem Productions


Tandem Productions, Inc. (a.k.a. Tandem Enterprises, Inc.) was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by television director Bud Yorkin and television writer/producer Norman Lear. In the early years, Yorkin and Lear initially established Tandem specifically for television production. The name was chosen because when launching their company, Yorkin and Lear were said to feel like two men riding uphill on a tandem bicycle. The company produced several variety and dramatic television specials such as the Fred Astaire specials, "Henry Fonda and
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