The most remarkable thing about TV producer Norman Lear turning 100 is the fact that he is still working.
Lear produced (or co-produced with the late Bud Yorkin) some of the greatest sitcoms in American TV history - All in The Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. That's a career right there. Lear could have retired long ago.
Instead Lear is still working. Granted his focus is on revivifying his greatest successes such as the rebooting of One Day at a Time on Netflix in 2017 and is currently at work relaunching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on TBS. If that wasn't enough, in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade, Lear is planning on recreating the Maude episode "Maude's Dilemma" for ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience. Lear really takes Bob Dylan's adage, "He who isn't being born is busy dying," to heart.
All I can say is Mazel Tov.
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