What was his hurry? I am sure sure he could still have said something in the next, what, 40 or 50 years....
Didn’t he steal ideas from British sitcoms?
Smearing a man who tried to put “liberal” values into shows just before he turns 100. This is the treatment one can expect for doing the left’s bidding for 100 years.
Lear didn’t actually write the shows he ran. I think he got a writing credit on like 3 episodes of “All in the Family”. He was the CEO of a company with employees including writers.
Didn’t Demond Wilson, who played the son on Sanford & Son threaten Lear with a gun, because he was such a jerk?
amos didn’t like that JJ was the star of the show. JJ said he didn’t have a good relationship with the people who played his parents
Ideas are easy, execution is hard.
Totally believable.
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. In my observation, libs are some of the worst racists on the planet.
I remember that show, and I think I stopped watching it after they killed off the father character in the show, played by John Amos. I liked that character and was mad they got rid of him. I guess he didn’t fit in with the stereotypes so they got rid of him.
Thats what the old leftist gets for carrying the racialists’ water for all those years.
Sure he did. The fact that he waited 40 years before complaining is perfectly understandable. It was because of systemic racism!
I went to post: Is ANYONE here surprised that yet another Hollywood liberal is a racist lying piece of excrement?
It was declined to post, as it had an 81% “toxic” rating by the ‘bot.
LMAO
So he sued and won in 1977.
Even when these shows were new, Good Times, The Jeffersons, etc. came across to me as piles of racist stereotypes, including a transition from “yassah boss” to stereotypes of blacks acting hip, smart, and empowered, while white characters were always portrayed as idiots — all as cover for Hollywood honkies getting rich exploiting the social integration of black entertainers. Norman Lear = virtue-signaling hypocrite.
Sounds like 2 racists in a race bait cat fight. I don’t like Norman Lear. I like this Monte dude even less. They deserve each other.
Eric Monte Monte claims that he came up with the idea of a wealthy black businessman movie to the upscale East Side?
He wrote for “Good Times”, not “All in the Family”. The character George Jefferson already existed as a successful black businessman. Not much of a jump to suggest that he kept on being successful and “moved on up”. How much of an idea is it anyway? Something more far-fetched would be Laverne DeFazio coming into a large inheritance and moving out of Milwaukee into a Chicago high-rise. If someone suggested that for a sitcom, it would hardly be considered a new idea deserving of royalties.
What’s the Meathead say to this accusation? Will he cancel his old friend?
New York Democrat, son. They're all that way.