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Ed Asner: New York
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Award winning actor, director, producer, and pioneering anti-Iraq war activist Ed Asner is scheduled to appear live on the CNN Headline News program Showbiz Tonight (6pm CST). Asner is reportedly going on to support Charlie Sheen's bold and brave stance calling for a real investigation of the events on September 11th, 2001 as well as to raise his own questions.
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Asner, 71, is a serious dude even though he was part of one of television's greatest comic ensembles. What the "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" treated as topics of jest -- a news anchor nervous about getting fired, or a greedy station owner -- Asner now treats as conditions gnawing away at the country.
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The youngest of five children, Asner was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but raised in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended Wyandotte High School, where he edited the school newspaper, acted in several plays and was voted All-City tackle. At the University of Chicago he made his college stage debut as Thomas Becket in Murder in the Cathedral. As a member of the campus dramatic group, "Tonight at Eight-Thirty," he was directed by a young Mike Nichols and appeared in works by Shaw and Yeats.
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