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Norman Lear’s Longtime Producing Partner Brent Miller Reflects Fondly On How the Duo ‘Used’ Each Other


On what would have been Norman Lear's 102nd birthday, Brent Miller recalls a touching gesture Norman Lear once made.

And under their partnership, the company — based at Sony — roared back in a big way, with the critically acclaimed reboot of “One Day at a Time” and the Emmy-winning “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” Lear died in December at 101. It was a typical sunny morning in Beverly Hills and Norman Lear asked that I come over and enjoy some brunch on the back patio of his home overlooking the pool, prior to driving to our offices on the Sony lot. You have fathered an altogether attractive, smart as hell, determined and loyal, generous and affirmative, proud and dependable man here, newly turned forty.

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