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Maltin on Movies

Revisiting Norman Lear

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Whatever you may think of the Golden Globes, their voters hit a bull’s-eye when they gave a special award to Norman Lear, the youngest 98-year-old in Hollywood. He could easily coast along on his many accomplishments as a writer, producer, director, and political activist; instead he is engaged in new projects on a daily basis. He also penned a candid, entertaining autobiography called Even This I Get to Experience.

 

          Jessie and I were privileged to spend an hour with him as he was just settling into his new office suite on the Sony Pictures lot two and a half years ago. He gave birth to such TV series as All in the Family, Maude, and The Jeffersons and was then busily involved in a reboot of One Day at a Time. He’s worked in television since 1950, but no one seems to talk to him about the movies he wrote, produced, and/or directed, like Cold Turkey, or those for which he was a midwife (like The Princess Bride). We relished spending time with this highly amusing, soft-spoken giant—even when he fielded a cell phone call from a political fundraiser in the midst of our interview!

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Whatever you may think of the Golden Globes, there are voters hit a bullseye when they gave a special award to Norman Lear, the youngest 98-year-old in Hollywood.

0:10.2

He could easily coast along on his many accomplishments as a writer, producer, director, and political activist.

0:17.5

Instead, he is engaged in new projects on a daily basis. He also wrote a candid,

0:23.1

entertaining autobiography called, Even This I Get to Experience. Jesse and I were privileged to spend

0:30.0

an hour with him as he was just settling into his new office suite on the Sony Pictures lot

0:35.1

two and a half years ago. He gave birth to such TV series as All in the Family,

0:40.8

Maude and the Jeffersons,

0:42.6

and was then busily involved in a reboot of one day at a time.

0:46.9

He's worked in television since 1950,

0:50.1

but no one seems to talk to him about the movies he wrote,

0:53.3

produced, and or directed, like

0:55.1

cold turkey, or those for which he was a midwife, like the Princess Bride. We relished spending

1:01.6

time with this highly amusing, soft-spoken giant, even when he fielded a cell phone call from

1:07.7

a political fundraiser in the middle of our interview. Enjoy.

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1:53.0

Hi, I'm Leonard Malton.

1:54.5

And I'm Jesse Malton.

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