RIP Ed Asner

[MileHigh]

 

[qtlaw]

Oh man. Thanks for the laughs and the intensity. May he RIP.

 

[HanSenSE]

Which newsroom in the sky does Lou Grant hit first, WJM or the Tribune?

RIP.

 

[MTM]

How many of us were inspired by Lou Grant as a TV producer and newspaper editor?

RIP, time to produce a newscast in Heaven with Mary, Murray and Ted as Georgette, Rhoda and Phyllis watch.

 

[User 150927]

Sad news. What a great life he led.

 

[maumann]

Just read the obituary the way Murray wrote it, Ted.

 

[Tighthead]

 

[Songbird]

There will probably be some poll on the socials soon on whether he was better on MTM Show or Lou Grant.

He hit a grand slam in both shows.

His relationship with Rossi was every bit as feel to the touch real as it was with Mary.

 

[Starman]

Damn. For some reason I've been semi-binge watching Lou Grant on YouTube for the last couple weeks -- watched probably a dozen episodes.

Season 1 they all had typewriters at their desks. Season 2 they all got those **** computers I had to work on the first four years of my career half a decade later.

I saw very few of the episodes when they first ran; I was working nights at Happy Jack's Natco Service.

MTM was much funnier, of course, but Lou Grant was a good journalism show.

 

[Songbird]

Asner said he hasn't "the vaguest" notion of how much longer the "Lou Grant" show will continue, said the only other thing he'd like to do beside acting is "read" and would try directing "only if I got too bored with acting, or couldn't get acting jobs." Yesterday he announced that he and his colleagues in entertainment would play an increasingly active role in political matters, that they have no expertise, it's true, but "we are all American citizens and our visibility gives us a special responsibility."

And does he think that in the process they're losing their identities as actors? "I hope to furbish my identity as a concerned human being," Asner said. "If it costs the actor, then so be it."​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ctivist/2766ff33-2d0b-4335-9904-3d3518c38a45/

Obviously it cost him as Lou Grant went of the air after he politicked so hard for El Salvador.

 

[hondo]

Lou: "You got spunk."
Mary: "Thank you."
Lou: "I hate spunk!"

Would have loved to work for an editor like the one he portrayed. Also gave a very underrated performance in a made-for-TV Christmas movie called "The Gathering," about a dying man whose adult children hated him trying to get them together for Christmas -- without letting them know he was dying.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[mpcincal]

RIP.

I had watched some Mary Tyler Moore Show reruns and enjoyed them, but it surprised me to see Asner take his Lou Grant character to an hour-long drama.
However, it is one of the better depictions of the daily grind of newspapers and journalism that I've ever seen.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Lou got a lot out of a newsroom with one editor, two reporters and one photographer
But I was fond of Ed Asner because he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and marched in Detroit’s Labor Day parade
RIP

 

[DanOregon]

It's really kind of amazing how perfectly crafted the character Lou Grant was from the first ep of MTM to the final episode of Lou Grant. Some of the best episodes were the character-driven ones where it is Lou or Charlie moaning about how much it sucks getting old or being alone or whatever.

And Ed was a very, hairy man.

 

[ChrisLong]

A friend of mine used to work for a caterer. He was working a party that Asner attended. He asked him for his autograph "to give to his friend who is a real newspaper man."
Asner said, "If he's a real newspaperman, he won't want my autograph."
So true. I was never an autograph guy.
RIP, to a true legend.

 

[Starman]

Lou got a lot out of a newsroom with one editor, two reporters and one photographer
But I was fond of Ed Asner because he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and marched in Detroit’s Labor Day parade
RIP

In the later seasons, they worked some extra staff members into the storylines. Not permanent cast members but they had some other people make a few appearances.

For instance, the "women's/ living today" section editor, who they had dating Lou for a few shows.

They also turned Donovan, the news editor, into quite a character in his own right.

 

[Starman]

I'll also remember Asner as the gruff but good natured (and also quite shockingly bilingual) cop in "Change of Habit" along with Elvis and a young teevee actress named Mary Tyler Moore playing America's hippest nun.

 

[DanOregon]

It probably would have wrecked the show, but I was always surprised nobody from the Twin Cities ever showed up in LA. Was his time there even referenced after the first episode?