People For Founder Norman Lear is eulogized in this piece from the Bay Area Reporter-- and remembered as a giant in American politics and history.
Ours was not a TV household. A few thousand books lined bookcases in our household growing up and we were constantly told to read, read, read, which we loved, so it was not a punishment. We were only allowed a few hours of TV each week, much of which sat us and sibs in front of a TV monitored by a hyper-intellectual Socialist mother who thought educational TV, not fun stuff, is what we should be watching.
How lucky were we that she thought Norman Lear and his politics were educational? Lear created, developed or co-produced some of television's most beloved sit-coms; "All in the Family," "Maude," "The Jeffersons." "Sanford and Son," and "One Day at A Time" among them. He died on Dec. 5 at the age of 101.
Read the full article at the Bay Area Reporter.
