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The legendary Norman Lear has worked with immoderate of the astir beloved names successful tv history. In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, find retired who holds an other peculiar spot successful his heart.
TV Legend Norman Lear connected Celebrating 100th Birthday
Norman Lear knows a happening oregon 2 astir bully TV.
The man down specified iconic shows as All successful the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons and One Day astatine a Time is the absorption of Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter, a solemnisation of his vocation which airs Sept. 22 astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
Lear, who turned 100 years aged successful July, has worked with pretty overmuch each large sanction successful Hollywood implicit the people of his unparalleled career, truthful erstwhile it came clip for Lear to database immoderate of his biggest inspirations successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News, the names helium gave mightiness travel arsenic a spot of a surprise.
"There's cipher successful our concern I person admired much implicit a agelong time," Norman revealed, "than [South Park creators] Trey Parker and Matt Stone."
In 2003, Lear made an quality connected an occurrence of South Park arsenic the dependable of Benjamin Franklin and even attended a South Park writers' retreat, with immoderate of his ideas making it connected the Comedy Central show.
Lear's admiration for Parker and Stone manifested into meaningful, real-life friendships.
"In fact, I flew to Hawaii once, due to the fact that I americium a reverend successful the Universal Life Church," Lear said. "I flew to Hawaii and I joined Trey [to his then-wife Emma Sugiyama]."
When it comes to what makes truthful galore of his sitcoms specified timeless treasures, Lear said it's truly precise simple.
"Human quality is quality nature. I don't deliberation thing has changed successful quality nature," Lear argued. "I would expect immoderate assemblage to laughter astatine [All successful the Family's] Archie Bunker and Edith arsenic overmuch and arsenic good contiguous is immoderate different time."
He added, "I deliberation the civilization has shifted and changed and moved. But the mode families acquisition beingness is beauteous overmuch the same, and those performances are glorious."
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Many of those performances volition beryllium celebrated successful the ABC special, which "honors the beingness and bequest of the singular storyteller, activistic and philanthropist Norman Lear," according to the network, "and features intimate conversations, peculiar performances and astonishment reunions that wage homage to the antheral down immoderate of television's top stories successful solemnisation of his 100th birthday."
The peculiar volition diagnostic appearances from A-listers similar George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jennifer Aniston, in summation to peculiar philharmonic numbers paying tribute to iconic sitcom taxable songs performed by the likes of Kristen Bell, Anthony Anderson and Kelly Rowland.
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter airs Sept. 22 astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
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