Everyone will remember Lou Grant. Well, you will remember that character if you're old enough. Ed Asner dead at 91
In 1970, the world was introduced to Grant on the comedy "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Grant was the news director at fictional Minneapolis TV station WJM. Grant was seen in the show as tough, often angry and a borderline alcoholic. But he also could be gentle and misunderstood in his own way. Asner won four primetime Emmys and two Golden Globes for the role.
Asner also helped to found the theater group in Chicago that would eventually morph in The Second City in Chicago. And he would often make guest appearances there. While I haven't been in a few decades, Second City was like SNL without the network sensors. It managed to stay funny a lot longer; maybe it still is.
Asner was also in one of my favorite westerns, El Dorado. He did a fair job of being the bad guy, though not the bad-guy-who-gets-his-hands-dirty. The Big Boss.
This is a link to the video where Bart Jason (Ed Asner) meets Cole Thorton (John Wayne). It isn't great cinema, but the movie is a lot of fun.
Another commie gone.
ReplyDeleteRIP? How about burn in hell
ReplyDeleteI ignore the politics of actors and singers. Mostly. If I only listened to music made by musicians that had political beliefs I agreed with I would only be listening to some country and western. And not even all of that.
ReplyDeleteActors ditto. I liked him in a few TV shows, and a few movies, and I completely ignored everything he did outside of that.
Maybe I shouldn't, but there is only so much energy to expend, and that isn't worth it to me.
When I do notice their political beliefs, I usually mock the idea that they are important. They aren't important.
Another flaming commie who got rich in America and used his postion to do all he could to destroy freedom....may he ROT IN HELL.
ReplyDeleteResting in Karl Marx's Luvin' Arms.
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