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We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
Norman Lear
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That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.
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TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
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Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
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Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
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I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
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We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
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So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
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Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
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Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.
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