There aren’t a lot of 97-year-olds who are as actively engaged with the world-at-large as Norman Lear. The television icon, who is set to receive Equality California’s Ally Leadership award at the first-ever Golden State Equality Awards in a virtual presentation on Sunday, still has his finger in a lot of pies at an age when most people are long retired.
He has a first look deal with Sony Pictures Television (under his production banner, ACT III), and serves as executive producer for the critically acclaimed reimagining of his own classic “One Day At A Time,” a show embraced by critics for recasting of the original’s white central family as Cuban-Americans, and for its inclusion of a lesbian character whose coming-out journey is a prominent