In my ninety-plus years I’ve lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front- row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created or developed more than a hundred shows; had nine on the air at the same time; founded the 300,000-member liberal advocacy group People for the American Way; was labeled the “No. 1 enemy of the American family” by Jerry Falwell; made it onto Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List”; was presented with the National Medal of the Arts by President Clinton; purchased an original copy of the Declaration of Independence and toured it for ten years in all fifty states; blew a fortune in a series of bad investments in failing businesses; and reached a point where I was informed we might even have to sell our home.
Having heard that we’d fallen into such dire straits, my son-in-law phoned me and asked how I was feeling. My answer was, “Terrible, of course,” but then I added, “but I must be crazy, because despite all that’s happened, I keep hearing this inner voice saying, ‘Even this I get to experience.'”
book reviews
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Sedona World of Wisdom Days
Sedona, Arizona
Friday, January 16th, 2015
NATPE – Opening Keynote
Miami, Florida
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2015
Television Academy presents
“an evening with Norman Lear”
los angeles, ca
Ricardo Montalban Theater
wednesday, january 28, 2015
watch the live webcast
more dates to come!