esalesky/ted-im2im-zhcn-en · Datasets at Hugging Face

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A year later I asked my mother if I could have them, because I'd like to keep them all the years of my life...	en-193001.png
She had thrown them away.	en-193002.png
(Laughter) That's my mother. (Laughter)	en-193003.png
The best way I can sum it up in more recent times is — this is also more recent times — a number of years ago, when they started the Hall of Fame to which you referred.	en-193004.png
It was a Sunday morning, when I got a call from the fellow who ran the TV Academy of Arts & Sciences.	en-193005.png
He was calling me to tell me they had met all day yesterday and he was confidentially telling me they were going to start a hall of fame and these were the inductees.	en-193006.png
I started to say " Richard Nixon, " because Richard Nixon — EH: I don't think he was on their list.	en-193007.png
NL: William Paley, who started CBS, David Sarnoff, who started NBC, Edward R. Murrow, the greatest of the foreign correspondents, Paddy Chayefsky — I think the best writer that ever came out of television — Milton Berle, Lucille Ball and me.	en-193008.png
EH: Not bad.	en-193009.png
NL: I call my mother immediately in Hartford, Connecticut.	en-193010.png
" Mom, this is what's happened, they're starting a hall of fame. " I tell her the list of names and me, and she says, "Listen, if that's what they want to do, who am I to say?"	en-193011.png
(Laughter) (Applause) That's my Ma.	en-193012.png
I think it earns that kind of a laugh because everybody has a piece of that mother.	en-193013.png
(Laughter) EH: And the sitcom Jewish mother is born, right there.	en-193014.png
So your father also played a large role in your life, mostly by his absence.	en-193015.png
NL: Yeah.	en-193016.png
EH: Tell us what happened when you were nine years old.	en-193017.png
And he went.	en-193018.png
It turns out he was picking up some fake bonds, which he was flying across the country to sell.	en-193019.png
But the fact that he was going to Oklahoma in a plane, and he was going to bring me back a 10-gallon hat, just like Ken Maynard, my favorite cowboy wore.	en-193020.png
You know, this was a few years after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic.	en-193021.png
I mean, it was exotic that my father was going there.	en-193022.png
But when he came back, they arrested him as he got off the plane.	en-193023.png
That night newspapers were all over the house, my father was with his hat in front of his face, manacled to a detective.	en-193024.png
And my mother was selling the furniture, because we were leaving — she didn't want to stay in that state of shame, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.	en-193025.png
And selling the furniture — the house was loaded with people.	en-193026.png
And in the middle of all of that, some strange horse's ass put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Well, you're the man of the house now."	en-193027.png
I'm crying, and this asshole says, " You're the man of the house now. " And I think that was the moment I began to understand the foolishness of the human condition.	en-193028.png
So...	en-193029.png
it took a lot of years to look back at it and feel it was a benefit.	en-193030.png
But — EH: It's interesting you call it a benefit.	en-193031.png
NL: Benefit in that it gave me that springboard.	en-193032.png
I mean that I could think how foolish it was to say to this crying nine-year-old boy, "You're the man of the house now."	en-193033.png
And then I was crying, and then he said, "And men of the house don't cry."	en-193034.png
And I...	en-193035.png
(Laughter) So...	en-193036.png
I look back, and I think that's when I learned the foolishness of the human condition, and it's been that gift that I've used.	en-193037.png
EH: So you have a father who's absent, you have a mother for whom apparently nothing is good enough.	en-193038.png
Do you think that starting out as a kid who maybe never felt heard started you down a journey that ended with you being an adult with a weekly audience of 120 million people?	en-193039.png
NL: I love the way you put that question, because I guess I've spent my life wanting — if anything, wanting to be heard.	en-193040.png
I think — It's a simple answer, yes, that was what sparked — well, there were other things, too.	en-193041.png
When my father was away, I was fooling with a crystal radio set that we had made together, and I caught a signal that turned out to be Father Coughlin.	en-193042.png
(Laughter) Yeah, somebody laughed. (Laughter)	en-193043.png
But not funny, this was a horse's — another horse's ass — who was very vocal about hating the New Deal and Roosevelt and Jews.	en-193044.png
The first time I ran into an understanding that there were people in this world that hated me because I was born to Jewish parents.	en-193045.png
And that had an enormous effect on my life.	en-193046.png
EH: So you had a childhood with little in the way of strong male role models, except for your grandfather.	en-193047.png
Tell us about him.	en-193048.png
NL: Oh, my grandfather.	en-193049.png
Well here's the way I always talked about that grandfather.	en-193050.png
There were parades, lots of parades when I was a kid.	en-193051.png
There were parades on Veteran's Day — there wasn't a President's Day.	en-193052.png
There was Abraham Lincoln's birthday, George Washington's birthday and Flag Day...	en-193053.png
And lots of little parades.	en-193054.png
My grandfather used to take me and we'd stand on the street corner, he'd hold my hand, and I'd look up and I'd see a tear running down his eye.	en-193055.png
And he meant a great deal to me.	en-193056.png
And he used to write presidents of the United States.	en-193057.png
Every letter started, "My dearest, darling Mr. President," and he'd tell him something wonderful about what he did.	en-193058.png
But I have shown them myself, going way back to Phil Donahue and others before him, literally dozens of interviews in which I told that story.	en-193059.png
This will be the second time I have said the whole story was a lie.	en-193060.png
The truth was my grandfather took me to parades, we had lots of those.	en-193061.png
The truth is a tear came down his eye.	en-193062.png
The truth is he would write an occasional letter, and I did pick up those little envelopes.	en-193063.png
But " My dearest darling Mr. President, " all the rest of it, is a story I borrowed from a good friend whose grandfather was that grandfather who wrote those letters.	en-193064.png
And, I mean, I stole Arthur Marshall's grandfather and made him my own.	en-193065.png
Always.	en-193066.png
When I started to write my memoir — "Even this —" How about that?	en-193067.png
"Even This I Get to Experience."	en-193068.png
When I started to write the memoir and I started to think about it, and then I — I — I did a reasonable amount of crying, and I realized how much I needed the father.	en-193069.png
So much so that I appropriated Arthur Marshall's grandfather.	en-193070.png
So much so, the word " father " — I have six kids by the way.	en-193071.png
My favorite role in life.	en-193072.png
It and husband to my wife Lyn.	en-193073.png
But I stole the man's identity because I needed the father.	en-193074.png
Now I've gone through a whole lot of shit and come out on the other side, and I forgive my father — the best thing I — the worst thing I — The word I'd like to use about him and think about him is — he was a rascal.	en-193075.png
The fact that he lied and stole and cheated and went to prison...	en-193076.png
I submerge that in the word " rascal. " EH: Well there's a saying that amateurs borrow and professionals steal.	en-193077.png
NL: I'm a pro.	en-193078.png
EH: You're a pro.	en-193079.png
(Laughter) And that quote is widely attributed to John Lennon, but it turns out he stole it from T.S. Eliot.	en-193080.png
So you're in good company.	en-193081.png
(Laughter) EH: I want to talk about your work.	en-193082.png
But have there ever been any stories about the impact of your work that surprised you?	en-193083.png
NL: Oh, god — surprised me and delighted me from head to toe.	en-193084.png
There was " An Evening with Norman Lear " within the last year that a group of hip-hop impresarios, performers and the Academy put together.	en-193085.png
The subtext of " An Evening with... " was: What do a 92-year-old Jew — then 92 — and the world of hip-hop have in common?	en-193086.png
Russell Simmons was among seven on the stage.	en-193087.png
And when he talked about the shows, he wasn't talking about the Hollywood, George Jefferson in " The Jeffersons, " or the show that was a number five show.	en-193088.png
He was talking about a simple thing that made a big — EH: Impact on him?	en-193089.png
NL: An impact on him — I was hesitating over the word, " change. " It's hard for me to imagine, you know, changing somebody's life, but that's the way he put it.	en-193090.png
He saw George Jefferson write a check on " The Jeffersons, " and he never knew that a black man could write a check.	en-193091.png
And he says it just impacted his life so — it changed his life.	en-193092.png
It could have been the dresser of the set who put the checkbook on the thing, and George had nothing to do while he was speaking, so he wrote it, I don't know.	en-193093.png
But — EH: So in addition to the long list I shared in the beginning, I should have also mentioned that you invented hip-hop.	en-193094.png
(Laughter) NL: Well...	en-193095.png
EH: I want to talk about — NL: Well, then do it.	en-193096.png
(Laughter) EH: You've lead a life of accomplishment, but you've also built a life of meaning.	en-193097.png
And all of us strive to do both of those things — not all of us manage to.	en-193098.png
But even those of us who do manage to accomplish both of those, very rarely do we figure out how to do them together.	en-193099.png
You managed to push culture forward through your art while also achieving world-beating commercial success.	en-193100.png

A year later I asked my mother if I could have them, because I'd like to keep them all the years of my life...

en-193001.png

She had thrown them away.

en-193002.png

(Laughter) That's my mother. (Laughter)

en-193003.png

The best way I can sum it up in more recent times is — this is also more recent times — a number of years ago, when they started the Hall of Fame to which you referred.

en-193004.png

It was a Sunday morning, when I got a call from the fellow who ran the TV Academy of Arts & Sciences.

en-193005.png

He was calling me to tell me they had met all day yesterday and he was confidentially telling me they were going to start a hall of fame and these were the inductees.

en-193006.png

I started to say " Richard Nixon, " because Richard Nixon — EH: I don't think he was on their list.

en-193007.png

NL: William Paley, who started CBS, David Sarnoff, who started NBC, Edward R. Murrow, the greatest of the foreign correspondents, Paddy Chayefsky — I think the best writer that ever came out of television — Milton Berle, Lucille Ball and me.

en-193008.png

EH: Not bad.

en-193009.png

NL: I call my mother immediately in Hartford, Connecticut.

en-193010.png

" Mom, this is what's happened, they're starting a hall of fame. " I tell her the list of names and me, and she says, "Listen, if that's what they want to do, who am I to say?"

en-193011.png

(Laughter) (Applause) That's my Ma.

en-193012.png

I think it earns that kind of a laugh because everybody has a piece of that mother.

en-193013.png

(Laughter) EH: And the sitcom Jewish mother is born, right there.

en-193014.png

So your father also played a large role in your life, mostly by his absence.

en-193015.png

NL: Yeah.

en-193016.png

EH: Tell us what happened when you were nine years old.

en-193017.png

And he went.

en-193018.png

It turns out he was picking up some fake bonds, which he was flying across the country to sell.

en-193019.png

But the fact that he was going to Oklahoma in a plane, and he was going to bring me back a 10-gallon hat, just like Ken Maynard, my favorite cowboy wore.

en-193020.png

You know, this was a few years after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic.

en-193021.png

I mean, it was exotic that my father was going there.

en-193022.png

But when he came back, they arrested him as he got off the plane.

en-193023.png

That night newspapers were all over the house, my father was with his hat in front of his face, manacled to a detective.

en-193024.png

And my mother was selling the furniture, because we were leaving — she didn't want to stay in that state of shame, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

en-193025.png

And selling the furniture — the house was loaded with people.

en-193026.png

And in the middle of all of that, some strange horse's ass put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Well, you're the man of the house now."

en-193027.png

I'm crying, and this asshole says, " You're the man of the house now. " And I think that was the moment I began to understand the foolishness of the human condition.

en-193028.png

So...

en-193029.png

it took a lot of years to look back at it and feel it was a benefit.

en-193030.png

But — EH: It's interesting you call it a benefit.

en-193031.png

NL: Benefit in that it gave me that springboard.

en-193032.png

I mean that I could think how foolish it was to say to this crying nine-year-old boy, "You're the man of the house now."

en-193033.png

And then I was crying, and then he said, "And men of the house don't cry."

en-193034.png

And I...

en-193035.png

(Laughter) So...

en-193036.png

I look back, and I think that's when I learned the foolishness of the human condition, and it's been that gift that I've used.

en-193037.png

EH: So you have a father who's absent, you have a mother for whom apparently nothing is good enough.

en-193038.png

Do you think that starting out as a kid who maybe never felt heard started you down a journey that ended with you being an adult with a weekly audience of 120 million people?

en-193039.png

NL: I love the way you put that question, because I guess I've spent my life wanting — if anything, wanting to be heard.

en-193040.png

I think — It's a simple answer, yes, that was what sparked — well, there were other things, too.

en-193041.png

When my father was away, I was fooling with a crystal radio set that we had made together, and I caught a signal that turned out to be Father Coughlin.

en-193042.png

(Laughter) Yeah, somebody laughed. (Laughter)

en-193043.png

But not funny, this was a horse's — another horse's ass — who was very vocal about hating the New Deal and Roosevelt and Jews.

en-193044.png

The first time I ran into an understanding that there were people in this world that hated me because I was born to Jewish parents.

en-193045.png

And that had an enormous effect on my life.

en-193046.png

EH: So you had a childhood with little in the way of strong male role models, except for your grandfather.

en-193047.png

Tell us about him.

en-193048.png

NL: Oh, my grandfather.

en-193049.png

Well here's the way I always talked about that grandfather.

en-193050.png

There were parades, lots of parades when I was a kid.

en-193051.png

There were parades on Veteran's Day — there wasn't a President's Day.

en-193052.png

There was Abraham Lincoln's birthday, George Washington's birthday and Flag Day...

en-193053.png

And lots of little parades.

en-193054.png

My grandfather used to take me and we'd stand on the street corner, he'd hold my hand, and I'd look up and I'd see a tear running down his eye.

en-193055.png

And he meant a great deal to me.

en-193056.png

And he used to write presidents of the United States.

en-193057.png

Every letter started, "My dearest, darling Mr. President," and he'd tell him something wonderful about what he did.

en-193058.png

But I have shown them myself, going way back to Phil Donahue and others before him, literally dozens of interviews in which I told that story.

en-193059.png

This will be the second time I have said the whole story was a lie.

en-193060.png

The truth was my grandfather took me to parades, we had lots of those.

en-193061.png

The truth is a tear came down his eye.

en-193062.png

The truth is he would write an occasional letter, and I did pick up those little envelopes.

en-193063.png

But " My dearest darling Mr. President, " all the rest of it, is a story I borrowed from a good friend whose grandfather was that grandfather who wrote those letters.

en-193064.png

And, I mean, I stole Arthur Marshall's grandfather and made him my own.

en-193065.png

Always.

en-193066.png

When I started to write my memoir — "Even this —" How about that?

en-193067.png

"Even This I Get to Experience."

en-193068.png

When I started to write the memoir and I started to think about it, and then I — I — I did a reasonable amount of crying, and I realized how much I needed the father.

en-193069.png

So much so that I appropriated Arthur Marshall's grandfather.

en-193070.png

So much so, the word " father " — I have six kids by the way.

en-193071.png

My favorite role in life.

en-193072.png

It and husband to my wife Lyn.

en-193073.png

But I stole the man's identity because I needed the father.

en-193074.png

Now I've gone through a whole lot of shit and come out on the other side, and I forgive my father — the best thing I — the worst thing I — The word I'd like to use about him and think about him is — he was a rascal.

en-193075.png

The fact that he lied and stole and cheated and went to prison...

en-193076.png

I submerge that in the word " rascal. " EH: Well there's a saying that amateurs borrow and professionals steal.

en-193077.png

NL: I'm a pro.

en-193078.png

EH: You're a pro.

en-193079.png

(Laughter) And that quote is widely attributed to John Lennon, but it turns out he stole it from T.S. Eliot.

en-193080.png

So you're in good company.

en-193081.png

(Laughter) EH: I want to talk about your work.

en-193082.png

But have there ever been any stories about the impact of your work that surprised you?

en-193083.png

NL: Oh, god — surprised me and delighted me from head to toe.

en-193084.png

There was " An Evening with Norman Lear " within the last year that a group of hip-hop impresarios, performers and the Academy put together.

en-193085.png

The subtext of " An Evening with... " was: What do a 92-year-old Jew — then 92 — and the world of hip-hop have in common?

en-193086.png

Russell Simmons was among seven on the stage.

en-193087.png

And when he talked about the shows, he wasn't talking about the Hollywood, George Jefferson in " The Jeffersons, " or the show that was a number five show.

en-193088.png

He was talking about a simple thing that made a big — EH: Impact on him?

en-193089.png

NL: An impact on him — I was hesitating over the word, " change. " It's hard for me to imagine, you know, changing somebody's life, but that's the way he put it.

en-193090.png

He saw George Jefferson write a check on " The Jeffersons, " and he never knew that a black man could write a check.

en-193091.png

And he says it just impacted his life so — it changed his life.

en-193092.png

It could have been the dresser of the set who put the checkbook on the thing, and George had nothing to do while he was speaking, so he wrote it, I don't know.

en-193093.png

But — EH: So in addition to the long list I shared in the beginning, I should have also mentioned that you invented hip-hop.

en-193094.png

(Laughter) NL: Well...

en-193095.png

EH: I want to talk about — NL: Well, then do it.

en-193096.png

(Laughter) EH: You've lead a life of accomplishment, but you've also built a life of meaning.

en-193097.png

And all of us strive to do both of those things — not all of us manage to.

en-193098.png

But even those of us who do manage to accomplish both of those, very rarely do we figure out how to do them together.

en-193099.png

You managed to push culture forward through your art while also achieving world-beating commercial success.

en-193100.png