“I have never lived alone. I have never laughed alone. And that has as much with me being here today as anything.”Wise words from television legend Norman Lear who, at 99, received the Hollywood Foreign Press’s Carol Burnett Award for outstanding contributions to television, both on and off the screen.
Lear is one of only three recipients of the honor, the others being Ellen DeGeneres and Burnett herself.Lear started his acceptance by thanking Burnett before going on to an appreciation of his collaborators throughout the years including Bud Yorkin, Alan Horne, Jerry Perenchio and his current partner, Brent Miller.
Lear also saluted Sony Pictures TV, calling it “one of the gustiest, most able group of executives” he’s ever worked with.The TV
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