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Post by rgs318 on Aug 30, 2021 7:24:04 GMT -5
Actor Ed Asner died today at age 91. Many remember him as Lou Grant but more may well remember his voice as Carl from "UP." May his soul rest in peace.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Aug 30, 2021 7:56:49 GMT -5
If you look at IMDb it's clear he had a long and incredible career. Some of it was good, some of it not, but he was a real working actor (Michael Caine was once criticized for taking a role in a terrible movie, and when a critic said to him no one is going to see this movie, he replied, no but they can see the house in Spain it paid for).
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 30, 2021 8:05:14 GMT -5
I suppose it falls on me to post that Lou Grant was a character he played most famously but his real name was Ed Asner.
Sadly, virtually all the actors on the Mary Tyler Moore show have passed on.
Mary, Lou, Ted, Murray, Rhoda and even Georgette but “The Happy Homemaker” is probably 105 years old (I exaggerate but not by much).
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Post by Tom on Aug 30, 2021 8:09:26 GMT -5
Kind of a classic that even people a lot younger than me will remember is the Christmas movie "Elf" where Ed Asner played Santa -----------
There were actually kind of two Lou Grants. After Asner finished playing Lou Grant in the comedy show "Mary Tyler Moore", he revived the role in his own show "Lou Grant". It wasn't a comedy at all, but a serious drama about a newspaper
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 30, 2021 8:32:07 GMT -5
I used one episode from Lou Grant in my death and dying class. It showed the photographer (animal?) doing a psychological autopsy when he see the body of a female suicide washed up on the beach. He spends the episode trying to figure. out why she took her own life. Both the writing and psychology in that episode were great!
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Post by newfieguy74 on Aug 30, 2021 8:50:34 GMT -5
I remember a movie Asner did called The Gathering. He played a difficult divorced man who calls his estranged family together at Christmas when he learns he is terminally ill. As you can imagine his attempt to reconcile is a bumpy road. Maybe not Oscar-worthy but an engaging movie.
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Post by CHC8485 on Aug 30, 2021 8:57:08 GMT -5
From Episode 1 of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Established Lou Grant's character very firmly from the outset.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 30, 2021 9:18:35 GMT -5
As soon as I saw that you were offering a video, I asked myself: Will this be the "You've got spunk" clip?
He was a gifted actor, no doubt
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 30, 2021 9:40:20 GMT -5
Those were the "good old days" when I manager could say "If I don't like you, I'll fire you. If you don't like me, I'll fire you." (see definition: "employment at will" )
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Post by dadominate on Sept 9, 2021 6:09:49 GMT -5
he was acting as recently as a few years ago, with a role in the immensely popular cobra kai.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 9, 2021 20:53:14 GMT -5
I understand that the acting on Cobra Kai is so bad it's good. I'm sure Ed was the exception to that.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 10, 2021 8:19:17 GMT -5
Haven’t watched the series but my two 40 something sons are big fans going back to the movies- mostly to laugh at the whole thing.
Daniel-san we found out later lived a town over from us on Long Island and, of course, we had an HC “alum” (don’t think he actually graduated as he dropped out to pursue acting) in the original Karate Kid.
Did not know “Lou Grant/Asner” was in the series.
Learn something new every day on Crossports!😉
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Post by hcpride on Sept 10, 2021 9:19:20 GMT -5
Ed was quite well known for his leadership in socialist/activist causes and very much a true believer in the promise of socialism. He was a prominent member of the talented Mary Tyler More ensemble cast in the 1970's. Beyond that, I don't know too much about him.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 10, 2021 11:28:13 GMT -5
After Mary's aunt turned down his marriage proposal: "Bartender, a drink for everyone in the room" (and the customers near him in the busy bar perked up when they heard him say it)....."give them all to me".
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