TED英语演讲：一个娱乐界偶像充满意义的一生

TED英语演讲一个娱乐界偶像充满意义的一生 演说题目一个娱乐界偶像充满意义的一生 演说者Norman Lear 演讲稿 Eric Hirshberg So I assume that Norman doesnt need much of an introduction, but TEDs audience is global, its diverse, so Ive been tasked with starting with his bio, which could easily take up the entire 18 minutes. So instead were going to do 93 years in 93 seconds or less. You were born in New Hampshire. Norman Learnnecticut. EHnnecticut. NL There goes seven more seconds. EH Nailed it. You were born nnecticut. Your father was a con man 一一 I got that right. He was taken away to prison when you were nine years old. You flew 52 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II. You came back to 一一 NL Radio operator. EH You came to LA to break into Hollywood, first in publicity, then in TV. You had no training as a writer, ally, but you hustled your way in. Your breakthrough, your debut, was a little show called All in the Family. You followed that up with a string of hits that to this day is unmatched in Hollywood Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, to name literally a fraction of them. Not only are they all commercially 一一 Not only are they all commercially successful, but many of them push our culture forward by giving the underrepresented members of society their first prime-time voice. You have seven shows in the top 10 at one time. At one point, you aggregate an audience of 120 million people per week watching your content. Thats more than the audience for Super Bowl 50, which happens once a year. NL Holy shit. EH And were not even to the holy shit part. You land yourself on Richard Nixons enemies list 一一 he had one. Thats an applause line, too. Youre inducted into the TV Hall of Fame on the first day that it exists. Then came the movies. Fried Green Tomatoes, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, This Is Spinal Tap. Again, just to name a fraction. Then you wipe the slate clean, start a third act as a political activist focusing on protecting the First Amendment and the separation of church and state. You start People For The American Way. You buy the Declaration of Independence and give it back to the people. You stay active in both entertainment and politics until the ripe old of age of 93, when you write a book and make a documentary about your life story. And after all that, they finally think youre ready for a TED Talk. NL I love being here. And I love you for agreeing to do this. EH Thank you for asking. Its my honor. So heres my first question. Was your mother proud of you NL My mother ... what a place to start. Let me put it this way 一一 when I came back from the war, she showed me the letters that I had written her from overseas, and they were absolute love letters. This really sums up my mother. They were love letters, as if I had written them to 一一 they were love letters. A year later I asked my mother if I could have them, because Id like to keep them all the years of my life