RIP Ed Asner

[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?

 

[outofplace]

Check out his IMDB page. It was amazing how much he was still working right up to the end.

 

[Scout]

Best. Santa. Ever.

RIP

 

[Songbird]

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.

Because I had to look ...

 

[HanSenSE]

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?

The closest reference was in on episode when Rossi and Lou were stuck in the mountains by a mudslide. Rossi asked about his TV days. It was an episode centering around survivalists.

All five seasons are on YouTube.