Norman Lear: The fact of my life is wherever you are at that moment, it took every bit, every second, every split second of your life to get there. You did it. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot… and need to talk about more. NL: My name is Norman Lear. We both own a house, we both own the furniture, we both own the window. Half and half. I want my half closed! Norman spends most of his time in Southern California And along with the times the number increased.
His father was arrested when Norman was a kid for selling fake bonds. So the evening he was taken away, she had people over and they were buying furniture. And that hurt more than anything. How funny, strange, that is. AS: Did your dad ever tell you why he went to prison? Did he speak to you directly about it? NL: Well I read the paper. I knew why he went to prison. But nobody ever told Herman anything. I adored my father. I continue to love him despite all the difficulty, because he leaned into life.
He ate it up. You know, and whatever was going wrong, he was, you know, gonna turn it around in the next twenty minutes. In two days to two weeks he was gonna have a million dollars, always. AS: And when - when you think about how your father was trying to raise you as a young man, what did he teach you about what it was to be a man?
Now a wet deck in his terminology meant, you know, three guys are gonna have sex with the same woman, you be first. Pretty - and then at one point I was driving a Good Humor truck, came home at , at night.
Poor bastard. I mean, this is what he knew. NL: We went to Troy, yeah. Looking for red lights. Because it was supposed to be notorious for a red light district. No - no such thing. At least not for us. And we came back. When Archie yelled at Edith to "stifle! The man never gave me one decent moment, not one! Maybe one NL: That was a real experience in my life. I rewrote it. When it came to a grandstand play, he was good at it.
