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Even This I Get to Experience, by Norman Lear
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“Flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written . . . an absolute treasure.” —Booklist (starred review) In my ninety-plus years I’ve lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created, or developed more than a hundred shows; had nine on the air at the same time; founded the 300,000-member liberal advocacy group People For the American Way; was labeled the “no. 1 enemy of the American family” by Jerry Falwell; made it onto Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List”; was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton; purchased an original copy of the Declaration of Independence and toured it for ten years in all fifty states; blew a fortune in a series of bad investments in failing businesses; and reached a point where I was informed we might even have to sell our home. Having heard that we’d fallen into such dire straits, my son-in-law phoned me and asked how I was feeling. My answer was, “Terrible, of course,” but then I added, “But I must be crazy, because despite all that’s happened, I keep hearing this inner voice saying, ‘Even this I get to experience.’”Norman Lear’s work is legendary. The renowned creator of such iconic television programs as All in the Family; Maude; Good Times; The Jeffersons; and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Lear remade our television culture from the ground up. At their peak, his programs were viewed by 120 million people a week, with stories that dealt with the most serious issues of the day—racism, poverty, abortion—yet still left audiences howling with laughter. In Even This I Get to Experience, Lear opens up with all the candor, humor, and wisdom to be expected from one of America’s greatest living storytellers.But TV and politics are only a fraction of the tale. Lear’s early years were grounded in the harshness of the Great Depression and further complicated by his parents’ vivid personalities. The imprisonment of Lear’s father, a believer in the get-rich-quick scheme, colored his son’s childhood. During this absence, Lear’s mother left her son to live with relatives. Lear’s comic gifts were put to good use during this hard time, as they would be decades later during World War II, when Lear produced and staged a variety show for his fellow airmen in addition to flying fifty bombing missions.After the war, Lear tried his hand at publicity in New York before setting out for Los Angeles in 1949. A lucky break had a powerful agent in the audience the night Danny Thomas performed a nightclub routine written by Lear, and within days his career in television began. Before long, his work with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (and later Martha Raye and George Gobel) made him the highest-paid comedy writer in the country, and he was spending his summers with the likes of Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. Movies followed, and soon he was making films starring Frank Sinatra, Dick Van Dyke, and Jason Robards. Then came the ’70s and Lear’s unprecedented string of TV hits.Married three times and the father of six children ranging in age from nineteen to sixty-eight, Lear’s penetrating look at family life, parenthood, and marriage is a volume in itself. A memoir as touching, funny, and remarkable as any of Lear’s countless artistic creations, Even This I Get to Experience is nothing less than a profound gift, endlessly readable and characteristically unforgettable.
Even This I Get to Experience, by Norman Lear - Amazon Sales Rank: #35560 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.40" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
Even This I Get to Experience, by Norman Lear Review The Wall Street Journal:“The Norman Lear who emerges from “Even This I Get to Experience” is engaging and unpompous, an amusing storyteller who pokes fun at himself and writes with brutal honesty about his life, especially his childhood. And what a story!"Associated Press: “An entertaining, penetrating celebration of a richly lived life.”Los Angeles Times: “Immensely likeable…[Lear] isn't always a mensch in "Even This I Get to Experience" (italics, characteristically, his), but at least he can write like one…. In this city, Norman Lear and his post-coaxial contemporaries built a mass medium with their bare hands. On good days — as Lear well recalls, and recalls well — they made it sing. If only more with their talent had lived so long; if only more who live so long had his talent.”Booklist (starred):“This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written… An absolute treasure.”Kirkus Reviews (starred):"A TV titan on his memorable life and storied career. Lear, best known as the creative mind behind such classic comedies as All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons and Good Times, recounts his extraordinarily eventful life with his signature wit and irreverence. The result is not just a vividly observed and evocative portrait of a long life, but also a fascinating backstage look at the evolution of the American entertainment industry... Lear writes movingly of his service in World War II, his difficult upbringing and subsequent troubled marriages, and his commitment to liberal causes, evidenced by his founding of the advocacy organization People for the American Way and his purchase of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. That he makes these subjects as engrossing and entertaining as his Hollywood reminiscences speaks to Lear's mastery of storytelling and humor. A big-hearted, richly detailed chronicle of comedy, commitment and a long life lived fully."Publishers Weekly:“[A] feisty, thoughtful autobiography… Lear pens sharply observed studies of the creative process on his many iconic productions and bares plenty of raucous, sometimes bawdy anecdotes—readers get to experience a nude and lewd Jerry Lewis… [I]n keeping with the bigoted, mouthy, complex and loveable characters he created, Lear's knack for sizing up a flawed humanity makes for an absorbing read.”ADVANCE PRAISEPresident William J. Clinton“That Norman Lear can find humor in life’s darkest moments is no surprise—it’s the reason he’s been so successful throughout his more than nine decades on earth, and why Americans have relied on his wit and wisdom for more than six. It’s also why EVEN THIS I GET TO EXPERIENCE is such a great read.”Carl Reiner“Norman Lear could never write a more dramatic, touching, or funnier tale of his life than he’s done here in EVEN THIS I GET TO EXPERIENCE.”Bill Moyers“Many have known the Man behind the stories. Now all of us can know the stories behind the Man. Archie, Edith, Gloria, and Meathead couldn’t have told them better!”Arianna Huffington“EVEN THIS I GET TO EXPERIENCE is not just the brilliant, moving story of a man who has lived an amazing number of lives—from making it onto Richard Nixon’s ‘Enemies List’ to changing the face of television—but also a life manual on how to live a life of depth, purpose, and meaning.”will.i.am“Norman Lear is a hero and a friend . . . he experienced so much in his life . . . sometimes I just want to sit down and ask him questions about life and his perspective . . . to do it right it would take years of interviews . . . but now that he wrote this book I can experience his journey and wisdom over and over again.”Trey Parker“Fantastic stories from one of the wisest, most subversive, and most beautiful human beings the comedy world has ever known. Like the man himself, this book is charming, awe-inspiring, and hilarious.”
About the Author Norman Lear is the television producer of such groundbreaking sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. He has received four Emmy awards, a Peabody, and the National Medal of Arts. As an activist, he founded People For the American Way. He lives in Los Angeles.
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WHEN I WAS A BOY I thought that if I could turn a screw in my father’s head just a sixteenth of an inch one way or the other, it might help him to tell the difference between right and wrong. I couldn’t, of course, and ultimately he—and I—had to pay a serious price for his confusion.
In late June of 1931, just out of third grade and a month away from turning nine, I was eagerly looking forward to my first experience at summer camp. A roll of cloth tape imprinted with “Norman M. Lear, Norman M. Lear, Norman M. Lear . . .” sat on the kitchen counter, waiting for my mother to cut it up and sew my name into the clothes I’d be taking with me in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, my father was about to take a plane to Tulsa. None of my friends in Chelsea, Massachusetts, knew anybody who had ever flown anywhere. It had been only four years since Charles Lindbergh flew thirty-three and a half hours in his single-engine Spirit of St. Louis to get from New York to Paris, and the rare plane that was spotted in the sky had us kids chasing around in the street yelling, “Lindy, Lindy!” So Dad flying to Oklahoma was a big deal.
He was traveling on some kind of business—“Monkey business!” said my mother, who sensed that the men he’d fallen in with were not to be trusted—and for my upcoming birthday he was going to bring me back a ten-gallon hat just like the one worn by my favorite film cowboy, Ken Maynard.
“Herman, I don’t like this,” she told him. “I don’t want you to see those men.” But Herman, as always, knew better.
“Jeanette!” he screamed, the veins in his neck bulging as he stood over her with his nose all but pressing hers. “Stifle!” And off he went.
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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful. Born Again Lear By Robert Scheer Truly brilliant in its honesty as one would expect from the man who transformed television from a myopic center of banality into a medium of accountability. All of the major controversies that confront us today, from war and peace on through race relations, gay rights, gender equality, freedom of and from religion, economic inequality, the right and obligation to challenge power and the powerful, and the reality that the American ideal would always be a work in progress was brought into the American home by this genius. From the first pages of this book, one is made aware that he did all that because he has lived his near century on this earth as a constant challenge to find justice as well as joy in all of his actions both private and public. I first met Norman Lear more than 30 years ago interviewing him for the Los Angeles Times when he told me there was no reason to fear failure as a writer because "you can always put another blank piece of paper in the typewriter and get it right," which is what he has once again done in what may be his best work ever.
29 of 34 people found the following review helpful. The Catastrophe of Success? By Joel Canfield I read the glowing advance notices on this book and was anxious to read it. I've been an admirer of Norman Lear's work through the two movies he wrote in the late 60's/early 70's (DIvorce, American Style and Cold Turkey) and, of course, All in the Family. But maybe the problem is that's also the time when he stopped creating great stuff. While the first two-thirds of this book are pretty good, if overwritten, the last third is almost impossible to get through, as a few other reviews here have noted. My eyes literally glazed over as Lear lives out his own endless Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous episode - so I ended up heavily skimming this section of the book. Also, it was almost impossible to discern what his third wife Lyn's personality is really like, except she's sad sometimes and happy other times - in contrast, his first two wives are vividly drawn. I don't mean to be cruel, this man changed the face of television, but I have to say this is the only book I've ever read that contained a paragraph at the end listing all his chauffeurs' names and thanking them, transforming it into the ultimate awards speech masquerading as an autobiography. I'm not saying success spoiled Norman Lear, but it sure made him a lot less interesting.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. MORE SEVENTIES TV, LESS PERSONAL HISTORY By astrology hound I hate having to give this book two stars, but unfortunately that is what it merits - but let me clarify, that review is IF you are looking for a book that talks about Norman Lear's career in television during the 70's and 80's.If I could, I would give Mr. Lear himself FIVE STARS for his career and what his shows have meant to me growing up, but I think there is something wrong in a book that is over 400 pages and devotes 20-30 pages to all his shows combined. Sandford and Son gets a few paragraphs when television lore and legend tells us that there were huge fights on that show, enough that Redd Foxx walked out during the season because he felt he was treated shabbily compared to the AITF cast. We get a few paragraphs about One Day At A Time and Bonnie Franklin and nothing about MacKenzie Phillip's drug addiction, how it effected the show and the way she was eventually fried. (It was rumored that Franklin had a recurring character taken of the show because she was upstaging the actress.) These aren't secrets, by the way, MacKenzie has written and been interviewed about this time extensively and The Truth Behind the Sitcom covers some of this, so he wouldn't be betraying MacKenzie by talking about it. Nothing at all about Different Strokes, that I could find, not one word.He goes into more detail about his relationship with Carroll O'Connor and the censorship of All in the Family which I found fascinating. But except for mentioning talking to Roxy Roker about being in the first television interracial relationship, we don't hear about the fallout, reaction or battles they had with the show. These sections feels rushed - perhaps because many of the actors are dead, Mr. Lear would prefer not to say anything bad about their memories - but then I think one should avoid a biography of this length if that is the case. It was fun to read about Good Times and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Maude, but again, we don't get into his head enough, we just get postcards of what the shows were like, which is deeply unfair to a fan, when he spends a ton of time taking about his father, HK.When Mr. Lear finishes with the All In the Family section, the book still has a third of a way to go. He writes about politics and his personal relationships, but unfortunately this isn't what we want from Norman Lear. He is a writer, the man behind the camera, so what we want is to understand what he is thinking about his work and the way it effects others. How he shapes the characters we have grown to love over the years. With the exception of a few anecdotes from his time working with Lewis and Martin, and Frank Sinatra, he really doesn't have the "juicy nuggets" that a book by star might have and we don't expect that from him.I feel frustrated because he takes a great deal of time talking about his early home life, his time in the service during the war, and various relatives and his children. It's not boring exactly, but a little of this goes a long way. If I were his editor, I would have encouraged him to tell that beginning and end of the story in 30-60 pages and devote a good 100-150 to the shows - there was a reason why he had so many Emmy nominated shows, four or five in the top ten at the same time.The problem is that a man of Norman Lear's achievement, age, and based on his personalty and tenacity which he shows throughout the book, it would take a star editor to stand up to him and tell him the last third of the of book is unnecessary and make him go back to the drawing board. Because Lear is going for prestige and making his mark in history, he has a quote on the back by "President William J. Clinton" That tells you everything you need to know. It's like the book falls into the exact trap that made his TV shows exceptional.My hope is that someone does a film or interviews him before he dies or does a real biography about his shows, interviewing those who are still alive. There are many people who will enjoy this book, but if I knew that Sandford and Son and the Jeffersons were going to get the equivalent of three pages TOTAL, I would have read this in the library. Lear actually spends the same amount of time on failed projects in the 80's and 90s as he does on his biggest successes.He is a man I admire, and I didn't want to write this, but I feel people should know what they are getting.
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