Legendary producerNorman Lear’s groundbreaking abortion episode ofMaudealso caused disagreement in his own household.
Aniston agrees, adding that “it sparked a conversation a good one.”
He also, as Kimmel notes, became the target of religious groups at the time.
Bea Arthur and Bill Macy in ‘Maude’.CBS via Getty Images
The late pastor Jerry Falwell called him the “No.
1 enemy of America.”
Lear quips to Kimmel, “How could you not be proud of that?”
Octavia Spencer, Jimmy Kimmel, Jennifer Aniston, and Amy Poehler in ‘Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter’.ABC/Eric McCandless
(“Better than No.
2,” Poehler says.)
“About tackling things everyones talking about, or afraid to talk about.”
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