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In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
Actor
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Television Producer
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New Haven
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Norman Milton Lear
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