R.I.P.: Norman Lear (TV Producer Extraordinnaire)

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Television has lost an absolute giant. Norman Lear, the man responsible for the landmark 1970's situation comedy show All In The Family, has passed on at the age of 101. Lear dared to inject social and political issues into TV comedy with that show, as well as The Jeffersons, Sanford And Son, and Maude, to name just a few others:

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