Norman Lear

Published: Oct. 26, 2018, 7 a.m.

At 96 it\u2019s fair to call Norman Lear a living legend. He gave birth to such TV series as All in the Family, Maude, and The Jeffersons. Instead of living in the past he\u2019s reinventing it, supervising a reboot of One Day at a Time, just for starters. He\u2019s 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). Leonard and Jessie relished spending time with this highly amusing, soft-spoken giant\u2014even when he fielded a cell phone call from a political fundraiser in the midst of our interview!