{"id":5022,"date":"2018-08-30T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:04:26","slug":"norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/08\/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2016, USA, 91 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This endearing documentary profiles Lear, the man behind such exalted TV series as <em>All in the Family<\/em> and <em>Maude<\/em>, as he promotes his 2014 memoir, <em>Even This I Get to Experience<\/em>. The movie\u2019s real focus is capturing the then 93-year-old in the full bloom of life. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady let Lear talk, and he\u2019s enchanting: engaged and curious, vehemently opposed to sitting still. Life has been \u201cwondrous,\u201d though Lear has had every reason to curdle: a childhood full of sadness, crippling work pressures, a stormy earlier marriage. We all have reasons.&nbsp; Life is hard. As you get older, the incentives to sit and collect dust increase daily. But if you keep a dash of curiosity and an open mind\u2014Lear started therapy in his 80s\u2014the horizon expands. Age is not a death sentence; it\u2019s definitely not a reason to lower the bar. \u201cI\u2019m sometimes applauded for walking across the room,\u201d he says. Translation\/inspiration: I am not done yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This endearing documentary captures Lear,&nbsp;then 93-year-old, in the full bloom of life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/08\/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}