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TV Legend Norman Lear, Age 95, Shooting New Pilot About Life, Sex in Nursing Home
www.showbiz411.com ^ | December 1, 2017 10:44 am | by Roger Friedman

Posted on 12/01/2017 2:06:05 PM PST by Red Badger

Norman Lear, age 95 and about to be honored by the Kennedy Center, never stops. He is some kind of living miracle. Today a casting call went out for his new series. His NEW series. In the 1970s, Lear produced landmark comedies like “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times.”

Lear already has a hit Latino version of his 70s sitcom “One Day at a Time” on Netflix. But he’s not going to stop there.

Now, with TV veteran Peter Tolan, he’s got “Guess Who’s Dead?” a droll comedy set in a Palm Springs nursing home with frisky post “Golden Girl” types. There are also young people as regulars, so the whole thing isn’t liver spots. The show comes from NBC and Sony.

Last year at the Austin Film Festival, Lear and Tolan tested out a reading of a pilot script. Robert Walden (from “Lou Grant”) and Oscar nominee June Squibb (“Nebraska”) played Murray and Patricia, a Jew and an Irish Catholic who fall in love when Murray’s wife who’s also her sister, dies. You can see a clip here:


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1 posted on 12/01/2017 2:06:05 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Sick, really depraved


2 posted on 12/01/2017 2:11:32 PM PST by dforest
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To: Red Badger

Heard it from at least two nurses who have worked in retirement communities, the STD’s are going around. They may be old and gnarly, but they still have motors.


3 posted on 12/01/2017 2:11:46 PM PST by lurk
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Had an in-law that worked in a nursing home.

The stories she tells are flabbergasting!....................


4 posted on 12/01/2017 2:12:44 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Nope not gonna watch that. I see they have a new reality show on...married to a convict. Not kidding, it starts in January.


5 posted on 12/01/2017 2:12:57 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
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To: Red Badger
Someone put a pillow over his head a la Godfather II.
 
6 posted on 12/01/2017 2:13:46 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Red Badger

I can write the opening scene ...

Two elderly resident men are seated
near the wall when a fetching nurse passes.

The first man excitedly exclaims, “Superpu**y!”
His friend replies, “I’ll have the soup.”


7 posted on 12/01/2017 2:13:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, my step-dad in on the dementia unit. I can tell ya’ stories of what I’ve seen on many visits. We’re all human and God’s children.

I despise Lear. I’m sure the show will be trash. Did he copy this from a “Britcom” like he did others?


8 posted on 12/01/2017 2:24:25 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: Red Badger

Another sick old liberal bastard.


9 posted on 12/01/2017 2:24:35 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It’s gonna be “The Golden Girls” meets “Animal House”.................


10 posted on 12/01/2017 2:25:46 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Norman Lear always interested in whatever can get him the most attention, and also whatever takes a jab at the Christian population.

Cannot stand not to be the center attention. Has an over
inflated sense of his own worth.


11 posted on 12/01/2017 2:28:45 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Red Badger
My Dad suffered from a brain disorder similar to Altzheimer’s and,as he deteriorated,we were forced to place him in a nursing home.Given that the female to male ratio there was about 10 to 1 my Dad was quite popular in the year or so he was there (he died of chronic lung disease).
12 posted on 12/01/2017 2:28:45 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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At least Heffner had someone to change his diapers in his final years.


13 posted on 12/01/2017 2:31:59 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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He could do a show about how many residents are neglected by family and staff, mistreated, lonely, and it isn’t all the staffs’ fault.

Many facilities have too few aides to too many residents. Few nurses, and while most try to do a good job, there are some bad actors in the field.

He should be ashamed. Most of the elderly do not have the money he has to be able to afford first class care.

Way to go, Norman. Give the world and America another completely skewed view.


14 posted on 12/01/2017 2:31:59 PM PST by OpusatFR
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Something tells me they only assign him male staff.


15 posted on 12/01/2017 2:33:45 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Red Badger

perhaps an Americanized takeoff of the Bayview Retirement Home?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdY5snOKkk&list=PL6_sAW5Dh28_eAsRw0uRj4ZNkTjTVF5PEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdY5snOKkk&list=PL6_sAW5Dh28_eAsRw0uRj4ZNkTjTVF5PE


16 posted on 12/01/2017 2:36:05 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

Wow. Not a single laugh to be found in that mess.


17 posted on 12/01/2017 2:37:13 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yeah, they are a couple of ‘ladies’ after my step-dad. He’s still handsome and has awesome hair (which the patients love to touch). He wants NOTHING to do with them. They meander in and out of his room when we are there......and give my mom the”stink eye”. She gives it right back. LOL!


18 posted on 12/01/2017 2:38:34 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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...and give my mom the”stink eye”. She gives it right back. LOL!

My Dad had an advantage...my Mom died long ago and he never remarried so he had nobody he had to be faithful to.And he,too,seemed to be uninterested...possibly due to his brain disorder.It was kinda sad actually.

19 posted on 12/01/2017 2:43:09 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: OpusatFR

Spot on.....but we are blessed to have an excellent care home and are well trained. The nurses and aids LOVE my step-dad and dote on him. He is a man of faith and always has a smile for them. I just adore him and want the best for him.


20 posted on 12/01/2017 2:43:52 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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