While Tripp Whitesell's biography, Norman Lear: His Life and Times, is devoted to the man who changed television, the following exclusive conversation looks beyond the shows and Lear himself ...

The Jeffersons,” which debuted a half-century ago this year, presented the image of an upwardly mobile Black businessman, ...

A David Hockney painting bought by famed US screenwriter and producer Norman ... Lear was “the most important television producer in history,” Christie’s said, best known for shows such ...

Laverne Cox says her upcoming comedy series “Clean Slate” is “very much a tribute to the legacy of Norman Lear.” Lear produced and developed over 100 shows and 1970s sitcoms, including ...

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind ... “Sanford and Son” and a host of other groundbreaking TV sitcoms, Lear lived and worked through just about every era of Hollywood comedy.

The creator of 'All In The Family,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Maude' and 'One Day at a Time' was still working on new shows The Emmy-winning ... during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles where ...

(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday ... in which celebrities recreate episodes of his old sitcoms, and he also executive-produced the recent remake of ...