One Day at a Time & Todd Mayfield

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Writers Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce talk about how the two teamed up with Norman Lear to make a brand new reboot of Lear's classic sitcom One Day at a Time. Plus, Todd Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield's son shares a new book about his father.

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0:25.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org
0:29.5	and is distributed by NPR.
0:37.0	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:39.0	Gloria Calderone-Kellet is a writer, a comedian, a producer, an actress.
0:44.0	She's worked on rules of engagement, how I met your mother, drunk history.
0:48.5	Her latest project is a reboot of one day at a time.
0:53.0	You might remember the old Norman Lear sitcom.
0:56.0	The show's about a Cuban American household where three generations all live under the same roof.
1:02.0	In a lot of ways, she based the show on her own childhood.
1:05.5	Gloria's parents came to the States from Cuba.
1:08.0	She remembers when she was about to turn 15, she made a big, big decision.
1:14.0	She didn't want to have a quaint sonyatta.
1:16.5	I feel bad about it now, but at the time I had been reading about it and I just thought,
1:22.0	what? This is they'd literally dress you up and be like, all right, she got a period at 12.
1:27.0	And now she's a woman and who wants her in the village?
1:29.5	Let's dress her up, put some lipstick on this pig, and put her out there.
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