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He produced revival productions of Broadway musicals, including South Pacific starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba McEntire ,[3 ] [2 ] Can-Can , and Camelot .[4 ] He co-wrote a newly revised script of Can-Can alongside Joel Fields when he was reviving the old musical.[5 ] [6 ]
Lee has been nominated eighteen times for Primetime Emmy Awards ; he won nine out of those nominations.[7 ] [8 ] He also won the Directors Guild Award , the Golden Globe Award , Producers Guild Award , GLAAD Media Award , British Comedy Award , three Television Critics Association Awards , two Humanitas Prizes , and the Peabody Award .[8 ]
He was honored the 449th star, placed at Palm Springs Walk of Stars , on March 18, 2022.[9 ]
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Lee is openly gay .[10 ] [11 ] [12 ] [2 ]
He paid US$3 million in 2002 (equivalent to $5,082,000 in 2023) for a Palm Springs estate built by architect Donald Wexler and originally resided in by Dinah Shore .[3 ] He sold the estate to real estate agents for $5,995,000 in 2009 (equivalent to $8,514,000 in 2023),[3 ] later purchased by Leonardo DiCaprio in 2014 for $5,230,000 (equivalent to $6,731,000 in 2023).[13 ]
References
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^ McKairnes, Jim (22 October 2017). "DAVID LEE" . The Interviews . Retrieved 25 January 2019 .
^ a b c David Lee (September 3, 2012). "PalmSprings.com Spotlight: An Interview with David Lee" . PalmSprings.com (blog) (Interview). Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
^ a b c d Beale, Lauren (May 1, 2009). "Jeffersons producer David Lee lists Dinah Shore Palm Springs estate for $5,995,000" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
^ Levitt, Hayley (October 30, 2014). "Frasier Cocreator David Lee on Can-Can, Camelot, and 11 Years of 22-Minute Plays" , TheaterMania.com; retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ Gans, Andrew (January 17, 2013). "Revival of Cole Porter's Can-Can Aiming for Broadway in Spring 2014; David Lee Will Direct" , Playbill ; retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ Reiner, Jay. "Review of Pasadena Playhouse 'Revisal'" , Reuters , July 8, 2007.
^ "David Lee" . Emmys.com . Retrieved May 16, 2016 . The website may have erroneously listed a sound mixer and the producer, writer, and director of the same name under the same page.
^ a b "David Lee" . laphil.com . Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
^ Ventura, Bianca (March 18, 2022). "Palm Springs Walk of the Stars honors David Lee with 449th star" . Retrieved February 24, 2024 .
^ Littlefield, Warren (2012). "Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" . Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV . New York City : Anchor Books. p. 134. ISBN 9780307739766 . Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
^ Becker, Ron (2006). "Gay Material and Prime-Time Network Television". Gay TV and Straight America . Rutgers University Press. p. 163 . Retrieved December 8, 2013 . David Lee gay.
^ Littlefield, Kinney (1996). "In '95, Gay Came To Stay In Prime-time TV" . Chicago Tribune . The date incorrectly says January 1, 1996.
^ Beale, Lauren (March 7, 2014), Leonardo DiCaprio buys Dinah Shore's onetime desert home , Los Angeles Times ; accessed May 23, 2017.
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