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Mackenzie Phillips and Norman Lear at a premier party for Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” in 2016. When she heard the news of his death Wednesday morning, “I felt like someone shot an arrow through my heart,” said Phillips, who grieved for Lear’s family but also “the whole country. “Every time I got a ‘Lear polish’ script in my …
Norman Lear, the legendary television producer who died Tuesday at 101, left behind a legacy that stretched beyond the dozens of television shows he developed during a seven-decade career. — Matt Brennan Sherman Hemsley, from left, Franklin Cover, an unidentified actor and Isabel Sanford in a 1975 episode of “The Jeffersons.” Jimmie Walker can never outlive JJ. — Dawn M. …
Norman Lear, who made funny sitcoms about serious topics, dies at 101 toggle caption CBS /Landov Norman Lear, who addressed serious issues in humorous sitcoms, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. Sponsor Message "He worked for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and then Martha Raye — this is a kind of who's who of television in …
Logan Roy, the patriarch of the HBO series “Succession,” is every inch an irascible king. If Logan at times resembles a King Lear transported to 21st century New York, it’s not simply because the character is played by the inestimable Brian Cox, an actor who successfully tackled the role of Lear in a Royal National Theatre production that toured the …