Posted on 12/06/2023 9:22:14 AM PST by Morgana
Legendary television writer and producer Norman Lear behind series like 'All in the Family' has died at the age of 101.
Variety reported that Lear died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes on Tuesday, with a private service for close family to be held in the coming days.
In a statement, his family said: 'Thank you for the moving outpouring of love and support in honor of our wonderful husband, father, and grandfather.
'Norman lived a life of creativity, tenacity, and empathy. He deeply loved our country and spent a lifetime helping to preserve its founding ideals of justice and equality for all.
'Knowing and loving him has been the greatest of gifts. We ask for your understanding as we mourn privately in celebration of this remarkable human being.' Lear, seen here in 2019, died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes on Tuesday, with a private service for close family to be held in the coming days
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Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days
And you knew where you were then
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin,
Go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day
That cost you under a fin.
Hair was short and skirts were long.
Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong
Those Were the Days
Third.
The Jeffersons was my first exposure to blacks, and remains my picture of them at their best. I laughed my ass off, enjoyed their ups and downs and learned some of their ways and manners. I suppose I owe some thanks to Norman Lear, that pointyheaded regressive.
RIP, Norman, Sherman, Isabel. Weezay!
Big leftist who started the downfall of America on tv.
I loved Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son.
Bookmark
Family time - Those were the days.
Lear failed at everything he tried to do. He wanted All In The Family to show the evils of bigotry and people embraced it. Sanford and Son ended up being basically a remake of Amos and Andy with characters taking over the show.
I love the fact that the viewing audience didn’t despise Archie and didn’t hold Meathead up as the enlightened hero despite Lear hoping they would.
Oscar?...................
The actress, LaWanda Page, REAL NAME was ‘Esther Anderson’ and Redd FOXX real name was ‘John SANFORD’. They had worked together for years on the stage as stand-up comedy acts. Hers and his being quite ‘bawdy’...........................
Leaving out his politics, loved All in the Family and Sanford and Son. S&S was my first exposure to a black family lifestyle, may have been Hollywood but it was funny as heck.
Black girl spins around “I lost 20lbs” Fred Sanford, “Look behind you, you’ll find it.”
I did not know this.
Song written by Charles Strauss and Lee Adams. Norman Lears legacy was to have ignorant backbiting people of different socioeconomic classes perform a sequence of comical vignettes and abusive one liners. Now almost every type of TV sit-com, rom-com etc. show is of that ilk....unwatchable..
I agree. Even though "All in The Family" and "Sanford and Son" did have funny moments, Lear turned the direction of TV from innocent comedy and wholesome entertainment to "edgy" shows beating the audience over the head with "social messages."
I'll take shows like "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Green Acres" any day.
It was rumored for years that they had affair but I don’t think any of it was serious.
Before TV, they worked to old ‘GRITS’ circuit touring black nightclubs in the South and Midwest..................
Oh BS! He did more to expose prejudice ON BOTH SIDES than anyone. I don’t care how big a leftist he was, we could just a man like Normal Lear today.
I agree. Not a fan of Lear. I’ll leave it at that.
he’s a big leftist.
Really something, reading those words to that song now.
Neither am I.
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