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Cargando... Even This I Get to Experience (edición 2015)por Norman Lear (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a good, easy to read book. The success of Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Sanford and Son) is unparalleled in tv history. His story is a good read to growing up in Hartford with his father going to jail, his mother's indifference, to his service in WWII. Throughout his life, he seemed to always bounce back when faced with difficulties. The book is not without errors though as on one page Ann Sheridan was spelled as Anne. However, the biggest error was on page 193 when he mentioned the Totem Pole Playhouse in Bucks County, PA - WRONG. The Totem Pole Playhouse was founded by Jean Stapleton's husband (William Putch). and is in Franklin County, PA. The playhouse in Bucks County is the Bucks County Playhouse. The book does not have an index but a good read. ( ) **I received this book in a GoodReads giveaway in exchange for an honest review.** It's no secret I love memoirs and this was not a let down. I love learning tidbits about people's lives and how it effects them later on and seeing what makes people 'tick'. This was a fun, quick read and I learned so, so much because I didn't really know a lot about Norman because his shows were before my time. A fun, quirky book that I would recommend. 4 out of 5 stars. I am a huge fan of television and the entertainment industry in general, so hearing Mr. Lear's stories in how he helped shape early television and the integral part he played in so many popular shows was very interesting to me. The problem I had with this book was that Mr. Lear, now in his 90s, experienced much of his success long before I was born. For a man of his age, Mr. Lear has an incredible memory, oftentimes relating exact conversations which makes for wonderful storytelling, in turn making for a great read even though I wasn't all that familiar with his subjects. I have never seen any of the TV shows he created, although I have heard of them. It would be nice to have some frame of reference so I could compare reality with what Mr. Lear presents as his reality, but if everything he says in this book is the way others interpret history, he is a remarkable man who along with a few partners and smart relationships along the way played a critical role in the entertainment industry and fighting battles to get things shown on TV that were quite revolutionary at the time. I do appreciate the humble manner in which Mr. Lear tells his story. He is a very wealthy man whose creative mind and moral compass are uncompromised, and he has undoubtedly influenced the entertainment world and is now working on the political world. I received this book through First Reads and probably wouldn't have read it otherwise. I'm very glad I got the opportunity because I did enjoy the book and I'm glad I got to learn about this man I really didn't know anything about previously. I was born in the 1970s and became aware of television at a time I consider the golden age of sit-coms. TV comedies were uproariously funny, but also addressed social issues in a way that ordinary people encounter them and grapple with them. The best of these shows included All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Sanford and Son, Maude, and One Day at a Time. And all these shows had one thing in common: they were created by Norman Lear. With this in mind, I figured Norman Lear would have a good story to tell, and I was right. I was pleased to learn that, like me, Lear spent much of his childhood in Connecticut. The formative figure in that childhood was Lear's father, a man he revered as a hero as many children look up to their fathers, but someone who was in many ways a scoundrel and even a criminal. Lear's father would become the model for larger-than-life characters like Archie Bunker, Maude, and George Jefferson. Lear traces the course of his career in this memoir. After attending Emerson College and then serving in a bomber crew during World War II, Lear enters into the nascent television industry writing for some of the top variety shows of the 40s and 50s. In the 60s, Lear worked on writing and occasionally directing comedy films. The 1970s saw his return to television, eventually having as many as seven comedy series in production at the same time (with all of them among the top-rated shows). In the 1980s and beyond, Lear became more politically active founding People for the American Way and professionally producing movies, including many of the great comic films of Rob Reiner. Apart from the story of his career with glimpse into his creative process, Lear also discusses his personal life which includes troubled marriages and his children, for whom he wasn't always present for. For a show business biography, this is a good book giving some insights into the mind of an influential figure of American popular culture. Favorite Passages: "I’ve always divided people between wets and drys. Dry people are cold, brittle, and very certain; they don’t hug well, and if you should hug one you could cut yourself on his body. Wet people are warm and tender, and when they hug they melt in your arms." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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