Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on X @GeneSeymour. The ...
By the basic measure of career hits, Norman Lear, who passed away this week at the age of 101, was the Pete Rose of television –– all the hits, without the baggage. As Bob Hope once observed, “We can ...