As a feminist and gay woman, the Canadian physicist taught the legendary TV producer a thing or two and met with activists to hear their concerns about his shows. Later, she produced telefilms.
to advise him on social issues and marginalized groups, providing insight the famed TV producer would use for plotlines and characterizations in his provocative shows, has died. She was 87.
“Norman had certainly given much thought to social issues of all kinds, but he didn’t have the time that I had into the feminist community and their thinking,” she said in Robert Alley and Irby Brown’s 2001 book,. “But it’s equally important to note that he was sufficiently secure to be open to my thinking and to the kinds of discussions that were sure to follow from it.”; she would not return.
Virginia Louise Carter was born on Nov. 18, 1936, in Arvida, a town in Northern Quebec, and raised there. She got to spend time in Los Angeles as a youngster, and after she graduated in 1958 from McGill University in Montreal, where she majored in math and physics, she returned to L.A. to earn her master’s in physics at USC in 1963.
When Carter started with Lear, she would pitch story ideas to him, take his place at read-throughs and sit in on meetings with network censors. “We understood that we had to offer real entertainment,” she said. “Once we got people watching, we could add the kind of content that would give substance to the plots.”
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