一个娱乐界偶像充满意义的一生小说

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一个娱乐界偶像充满意义的一生小说

演说者：Norman Lear

演讲稿

Eric Hirshberg: So I assume that Norman doesn't need much of an introduction, but TED's audience is global, it's diverse, so I've been tasked with starting with his bio, which could easily take up the entire 18 minutes. So instead we're going to do 93 years in 93 seconds or less.

Yowere born in New Hampshire.

Norman Lear: New Haven, Connecticut.

EH: New Haven, Connecticut.

NL: There goes seven more seconds.

EH: Nailed it.

Yowere born in New Haven, Connecticut. Your father was a con man -- I got that right. He was taken away to prison when yowere nine years old. Yoflew 52 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II. Yocame back to --

NL: Radio operator.

EH: Yocame to LA to break into Hollywood, first in publicity, then in TV. Yohad no training as a writer, formally, but yohustled your way in. Your breakthrough, your debut, was a little show called "All in the Family." Yofollowed that up with a string of hits that to this day is unmatched in Hollywood: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "The Jeffersons," "One Day at a Time," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," to name literally a fraction of them. Not only are they all commercially --

Not only are they all commercially successful, but many of them push our culture forward by giving the underrepresented members of society their first prime-time voice. Yohave seven shows in the top 10 at one time. At one point, yoaggregate an audience of 120 million people per week watching your content. That's more than the audience for Super Bowl 50, which happens once a year.

NL: Holy shit.

EH: And we're not even to the holy shit part.

Yoland yourself on Richard Nixon's enemies list -- he had one.

That's an applause line, too.

You're inducted into the TV Hall of Fame on the first day that it exists. Then came the movies. "Fried Green Tomatoes," "The Princess Bride," "Stand By Me," "This Is Spinal Tap."

Again, just to name a fraction.

Then yowipe the slate clean, start a third act as a political activist focusing on protecting the First Amendment and the separation of church and state. Yostart People For The American Way. Yobuy the Declaration of Independence and give it back to the people. Yostay active in both entertainment and politics until the ripe old of age of 93, when yowrite a book and make a documentary about your life story. And after all that, they finally think you're ready for a TED Talk.

NL: I love being here. And I love yofor agreeing to do this.

EH: Thank yofor asking. It's my honor. So here's my first question. Was your mother proud of you?

NL: My mother ... what a place to start. Let me put it this way -- when I came back from the war, she showed me the letters that I had written her from overseas, and they were absolute love letters.

This really sums up my mother. They were love letters, as if I had written them to -- they were love letters. A year later I asked my mother if I could have them, because I'd like to keep them all the years of my life ... She had thrown them away.

That's my mother.

The best way I can sum it up in more recent times is -- this is also more recent times -- a number of years ago, when they started the Hall of Fame to which yoreferred. It was a Sunday morning, when I got a call from the fellow who ran the TV Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was calling me to tell me they had met all day yesterday and he was confidentially telling me they were going to start a hall of fame and these were the inductees. I started to say "Richard Nixon," because Richard Nixon --

EH: I don't think he was on their list.

NL: William Paley, who started CBS, David Sarnoff, who started NBC, Edward R. Murrow, the greatest of the foreign correspondents, Paddy Chayefsky -- I think the best writer that ever came out of television -- Milton Berle, Lucille Ball and me.

EH: Not bad.

NL: I call my mother immediately in Hartford, Connecticut. "Mom, this is what's happened, they're starting a hall of fame."

I tell her the list of names and me, and she says, "Listen, if that's what they want to do, who am I to say?"

That's my Ma. I think it earns that kind of a laugh because everybody has a piece of that mother.

EH: And the sitcom Jewish mother is born, right there.

So your father also played a large role in your life, mostly by his absence.

NL: Yeah.

EH: Tell us what happened when yowere nine years old.

NL: He was flying to Oklahoma with three guys that my mother said, "I don't want yoto have anything to do with them, I don't trust those men." That's when I heard, maybe not for the first time, "Stifle yourself, Jeanette, I'm going." And he went. It turns out he was picking up some fake bonds, which he was flying across the country to sell. But the fact that he was going to Oklahoma in a plane, and he was going to bring me back a 10-gallon hat, just like Ken Maynard, my favorite cowboy wore. Yoknow, this was a few years after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. I mean, it was exotic that my father was going there. But when he came back, they arrested him as he got off the plane.

That night newspapers were all over the house, my father was with his hat in front of his face, manacled to a detective. And my mother was selling the furniture, because we were leaving -- she didn't want to stay in that state of shame, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. And selling the furniture -- the house was loaded with people.

And in the middle of all of that, some strange horse's ass put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Well, you're the man of the house now." I'm crying, and this asshole says, "You're the man of the house now." And I think that was the moment I began to understand the foolishness of the human condition. So ... it took a lot of years to look back at it and feel it was a benefit. But --