![]() ![]() Lear and Jimmy Kimmel are back to host the third “Live,” and Lear - even sporting a hip pandemic ponytail as he prepares to celebrate his 100th birthday next year - lavishes praise on Kimmel for originating the idea of taking classic scripts from his library with modern superstars. Lear was instrumental in casting Coleman in the show, for example: “It was so clear that he he belonged at the center of the show, that was he had a rare talent,” Lear recalled. Communications was behind “Diff’rent Strokes,” which also yielded “Facts of Life” as a spinoff, and although Lear wasn’t credited as an executive producer on those shows, his imprint was still there. Both shows come from the stable of Norman Lear, the legendary creator who was also a major TV mogul by the late 1970s. ![]()
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