{"id":7,"date":"2018-06-15T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridge249.qodeinteractive.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:12:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/normanlearbio.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column]\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"rs-p-wp-fix\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<sr7-module data-alias=\"home1\" data-id=\"1\" id=\"SR7_1_1\" class=\"rs-ov-hidden\" data-version=\"6.7.20\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-adjuster><\/sr7-adjuster>\n\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-content>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-slide id=\"SR7_1_1-1\" data-key=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-bg id=\"SR7_1_1-1-4\" class=\"sr7-layer\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/normanlearbio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-slider-background.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"2 slider-background\"><\/noscript><\/sr7-bg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-txt id=\"SR7_1_1-1-3\" class=\"sr7-layer\">First<br>in-depth<br>biography of<br>TV legend<br>Norman Lear<br> out NOW!<\/sr7-txt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/sr7-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<sr7-slide id=\"SR7_1_1-2\" data-key=\"2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/sr7-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/sr7-content>\n\t\t\t\t\t<image_lists style=\"display:none\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img data-src=\"\/\/normanlearbio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-slider-background.png\" data-libid=\"333\" data-lib=\"medialibrary\" title=\"2 slider-background\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" data-dbsrc=\"Ly9ub3JtYW5sZWFyYmlvLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAyNC8xMC8yLXNsaWRlci1iYWNrZ3JvdW5kLnBuZw==\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/image_lists>\n\t\t\t\t<\/sr7-module>\n\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\tSR7.PMH ??={}; SR7.PMH[\"SR7_1_1\"] = {cn:0,state:false,fn: function() { if (_tpt!==undefined && _tpt.prepareModuleHeight !== undefined) {  _tpt.prepareModuleHeight({id:\"SR7_1_1\",el:[1100,1100,768,960,720],type:'standard',shdw:'0',gh:[1100,1100,768,960,720],gw:[1920,1920,1441,778,480],vpt:['100px&#039;,&#039;100px&#039;,&#039;100px&#039;,&#039;100px&#039;,&#039;100px'],size:{fullWidth:true, fullHeight:false},mh:'0',onh:0,onw:0,bg:{color:'{\"type\":\"solid\",\"orig\":\"#ffffff\",\"string\":\"rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)\"}'},plType:'-1',plColor:'#FFFFFF'});   SR7.PMH[\"SR7_1_1\"].state=true;} else if((SR7.PMH[\"SR7_1_1\"].cn++)<100)\tsetTimeout( SR7.PMH[\"SR7_1_1\"].fn,19);}};SR7.PMH[\"SR7_1_1\" ].fn();\n\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; anchor=&#8221;Home&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;15&#8243; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1529393566232{margin-top: -120px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Chapter I<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;207&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1529072175747{margin-top: -6% !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1529397663339{padding-left: 50px !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In December 1971, nearly one year after <em>All in the Family<\/em> premiered, viewers discovered for the first time how Archie and Edith Bunker met. It was revealed in the season-two episode &#8220;Cousin Maude&#8217;s Visit&#8221; that became the origin for the eponymous hit spin-off starring Bea Arthur. The premise was that the entire Bunker household got sick with flu, and as Edith&#8217;s liberal feminist first cousin Maude Findlay, whom Archie despised, came to take care of them, Edith, as only she could, told the meandering story of how Archie, trying to get her attention, stuck his hand into her sundae at an ice cream parlor, and forever captured her heart. Later recounted again almost verbatim in the final scene of the\u00b7season-8 flashback episode &#8220;Mike and Gloria Meet,&#8221; it also illustrates just one example of Norman&#8217;s uncanny knack for mining deeply into the recesses of his past, and with tongue firmly planted in cheek, turning it into comedy gold. From &#8220;stifle,&#8221; &#8220;dingbat,&#8221; and &#8220;meathead&#8221; to Archie&#8217;s beer-stained easy chair, countless aspects from his own life can be found sprinkled throughout his signature sitcom and other shows. In this hilarious bit about how Archie and Edith became a couple, he masterfully played off the circumstances under which his own parents Herman and Jeanette Lear originally got together some fifty years earlier.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1529397672346{padding-left: 50px !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>Early Childhood and Youth<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;27px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]But in a very real sense, it was also a prophetic metaphor for how Norman quickly learned to use comedy to survive a childhood that was marred by pain, poverty, and often desperation from a very young age. 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Well researched and extremely readable, it will appeal to fans of Mr. Lear\u2019s sitcoms and comedy of all types. I highly recommend it.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Marc Eliot<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;3px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><em>The New York Times<\/em> bestselling author<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<div class='q_icon_with_title very_large normal_icon center '><div class=\"icon_holder \" style=\" \"><span data-icon-type=\"normal\" class=\"qode_iwt_icon_holder q_font_awsome_icon fa-5x  \"><i class=\"qode_icon_font_awesome fa  qode_iwt_icon_element\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><div class=\"icon_text_holder\" style=\"\"><div class=\"icon_text_inner\" style=\"\"><h5 class=\"icon_title\" style=\"\"><\/h5><p style=''>\u201cIn spotlighting a litany of social issues seldom discussed in nighttime television entertainment\u2014bigotry, racism, homophobia, sexism (and the first toilet flush heard \u2018round the world)\u2014Lear turned the mirror on the American public and shockingly showed them the full ugliness of their reflection. Whetsell\u2019s painstaking biography of the man behind it all\u2014including such revolutionary sitcoms as Maude, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman\u2014explains what shaped Lear\u2019s lifelong advocacy and determination and the sheer miracle of his television reign.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Alanna Nash<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;3px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Author of <em>The Colonel:<\/em> <em>The Extraordinary Story of Tom Parker and Elvis Presley and Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<div class='q_icon_with_title very_large normal_icon center '><div class=\"icon_holder \" style=\" \"><span data-icon-type=\"normal\" class=\"qode_iwt_icon_holder q_font_awsome_icon fa-5x  \"><i class=\"qode_icon_font_awesome fa  qode_iwt_icon_element\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><div class=\"icon_text_holder\" style=\"\"><div class=\"icon_text_inner\" style=\"\"><h5 class=\"icon_title\" style=\"\"><\/h5><p style=''>\u201cA remarkably dense biography that does justice to one of television\u2019s most remarkable figures, Norman Lear: His Life &amp; Times is a must.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kliph Nesteroff<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;3px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Author of <em>The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy and Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<div class='q_icon_with_title very_large normal_icon center '><div class=\"icon_holder \" style=\" \"><span data-icon-type=\"normal\" class=\"qode_iwt_icon_holder q_font_awsome_icon fa-5x  \"><i class=\"qode_icon_font_awesome fa  qode_iwt_icon_element\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><div class=\"icon_text_holder\" style=\"\"><div class=\"icon_text_inner\" style=\"\"><h5 class=\"icon_title\" style=\"\"><\/h5><p style=''>\u201cWhetsell knows where the funny bones are buried. Through the lens of Norman Lear\u2019s life, he gives us the very history of television comedy. A monumental work, Norman Lear is essential reading for sitcom aficionados and casual fans alike.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Brian McDonald<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;3px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Author of <em>Last Call at Elaine\u2019s and Five Floors Up<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1529333224527{background-color: #eaeaea !important;}&#8221;][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6&#8243;][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=&#8221;one_column&#8221;][qode_elements_holder_item advanced_animations=&#8221;no&#8221; item_padding=&#8221;1px 0 0 116px&#8221; item_padding_1280_1440=&#8221;0px 0 0 116px&#8221; item_padding_1024_1280=&#8221;0px 0 0 116px&#8221; item_padding_480_600=&#8221;50px 0 0 11px&#8221; item_padding_480=&#8221;50px 0 0 11px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;297&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][\/vc_column][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6&#8243;][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=&#8221;one_column&#8221;][qode_elements_holder_item advanced_animations=&#8221;no&#8221; item_padding=&#8221;204px 37% 0 33px&#8221; item_padding_1280_1440=&#8221;69px 17% 0 33px&#8221; item_padding_1024_1280=&#8221;50px 17% 0 33px&#8221; item_padding_768_1024=&#8221;0px 0% 55px 33px&#8221; item_padding_480_600=&#8221;100px 7% 0 30px&#8221; item_padding_480=&#8221;100px 7% 0 30px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>About the author<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Tripp Whetsell<\/strong> is the author of <strong><em>The Improv: An Oral History<\/em> <em>of the Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up<\/em><\/strong> (with founder Bud Friedman and a Foreword by Jay Leno), which was named one of the best comedy books of 2017 by <em>ABC News, The New York Times<\/em> and <em>the New York Post<\/em>. He is an adjunct media studies professor at Emerson College in Boston. As an entertainment journalist, he has covered TV, film, comedy and other aspects of popular culture for more than two decades. His articles have appeared in <strong><em>Vulture, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, VanityFair.com, The Wall Street Journal, TV Guide, The Hollywood Reporter, Closer Weekly, the New York Post, New York Daily News<\/em><\/strong> and<strong> <em>The Boston Globe<\/em><\/strong>, among others. 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