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 hes not going to stop there.
Now, with TV veteran Peter Tolan, hes got Guess Whos 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 isnt 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 Murrays wife whos also her sister, dies. You can see a clip here:
At first I saw Norman Lear and 95. I thought he checked out. Guess not yet
I won’t be watching because I have a Mom in a nursing home with dementia. No sex going on there, just a bunch of poor sick old souls barely breathing.
Makes me sad.
He could have done without this abomination. It really offends me.
I have heard the same from other sources.
Ain't Viagra wonderful?
Or maybe, "The ladies with acute anginas."
Norman Lear, king of drek.
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