100 Years of Norman Lear

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( happy birthday [100 Years of Norman Lear]( Rita Moreno, John Amos, Valerie Bertinelli, and other collaborators reflect on working with the TV legend. Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for VH1 Television as we know it could not exist without [Norman Lear](. Throughout his 70-plus years in the business, the writer and producer brought topics like racism, abortion, divorce, drug use, and poverty to prime time. Zeitgeist-defining shows including All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Maude, and Good Times aimed to entertain and educate while countering the growing right-wing Christian influence on showbiz in the ’70s and ’80s. Today, Lear remains as prolific as ever, producing original series and films, rebooting his greatest hits, underwriting documentaries, and occasionally acting. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [What We Do in the Shadows:]( The Grimm Teacher [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [Usher on His Most Enduring and Misunderstood Music “It’s a sore spot for me. I ain’t even lying.”]( 2. [The Resort’s Cristin Milioti Wore Body Glitter Every Day in the 2000s “This is very New Jersey of me …”]( By Alejandra Gularte 3. [This Month in Comedy Podcasts: Nikki Glaser on WTF Rounding up our favorite comedy-podcast episodes of the month.]( 4. [Jennifer Bartlett’s Great Tree of Life The artist wanted to make a work “that had everything in it.”]( By Jerry Saltz [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [So You Want to Sample a Beyoncé Song. Now What? Five producers and artists tell us how they managed to clear a track by the queen.]( By Jewel Wicker 6. [Dark Tower’s Redemption How a legendary board-game failure became a thoroughly modern hit.]( By Keith Law [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 20-Down, Five Letters: Like some TV-plot theories. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by New Line Cinemas, Gareth Cattermole/PW/WireImage for Parkwood Entertainment and Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb [Vulture Recommends]( We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo-Illustration: Vulture The Vulture [podcast]( [family]( is getting 50 percent bigger: This Thursday, July 28, we’re launching an exciting new weekly culture show called Into It. Hosted by Sam Sanders (you may know him from his remarkable tenure as host of It’s Been a Minute on NPR), Into It will marry Sam’s infectious passion for entertainment with the entirety of what Vulture offers. Read more and listen to the trailer [here](! [Read more from Vulture]( Introducing Dinner Party, a lively new evening newsletter about everything that just happened. [Sign up]( to get it every weeknight. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved