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Emirates, fly better. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to a very special 279th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

reporters Awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is

the most influential producer in the history of the medium of television.

A man who in the 1970s revolutionized the sitcom format by using it to tackle matters of

social import on a host of unforgettable shows, including all in the family, Sanford and Son,

Maud, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and Mary Hartman,

and who, even now in 2019 at the age of 96, is continuing to do so on Netflix's reboot of

one day at a time.

A winner of four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, the National Medal of the Arts, and a Kennedy Center's honor, and one of the original seven inductees into the Television Academy Hall of Fame back in 1984, Lucille Ball, Milton Burrell, Patty Chayevsky,

Edward Armero, William Paley, and David Sarnoff.

The only member of that remarkable class of TV pioneers who is still standing

and not just still standing but still going strong

the legendary Norman Lear.

Over the course of our conversation in his office on the Sony lot, Lear and I discussed how growing up during the Great Depression, serving during World War II, and having the complicated father that he had, shaped his social conscience, how he and his cousin wound up

writing comedy material together during their spare time and how that led them

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