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Appreciation: Seeing people like me on TV led to my career. I have Norman Lear to thank

Norman Lear in 2007, at the Hollywood Celebrates 18 Declare Yourself event. Lear died at 101.

LOS ANGELES — I wasn’t always a 29-year-old pop culture hound. In fact, I went from a 10-year-old movie nerd to, later, a 20-something TV obsessive.

Watching films and television shows has always been a part of my life — some of my fondest memories are of going to the theater to see “Fast Five” with my cousin and making my mom record “Lost” on VHS because it aired after my bedtime. (We would watch it together after school the next day.) As I grew,

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