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Who better than Lou Grant to tell it like it is? Ed Asner is a long-time actor, best known for his role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Later, he was still Lou Grant on the eponymous Lou Grant. He won Emmys for both shows. That’s amidst a long and storied stage and film career. And outspoken does not begin to describe Asner.
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Ed Asner is a much admired actor best known for his television portrayal of journalist Lou Grant. He ... has been an outspoken activist and advocate for human rights, political freedom, and on labor issues. With retired government analyst Burt Hall, he is coauthor of Misuse of Power, a hard-hitting view of the political far right. BuzzFlash interviewed Ed Asner and offered Misuse of Power as a premium in October, 2005.
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Ed Asner, who starred on the Lou Grant and Mary Tyler Moore Show, has every reason to believe that UFOs are real because he has seen them. Asner knows from personal experience that the military has gone out of its way to silence UFO witnesses. Asner says, he was caught up in an extensive UFO scare that rocked the top brass of a military installation where he was stationed. The incident took place in the summer of 1952, while the actor was on duty at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Asner insists that many of his Army buddies in the Signal Corps were seeing UFOs almost every day. There were both visual and radar observations.
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Ed Asner's wife Cindy Gilmore has filed for separation from the Emmy-winning actor after more than nine years of marriage. Cindy Gilmore Asner filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, with an undetermined date of separation.
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Raised in the only Jewish family in his neighborhood, American actor Ed Asner grew up having to defend himself both vocally and physically. A born competitor, he played championship football in high school and organized a top-notch basketball team which toured most of liberated Europe. Asner's performing career got its start while he was announcing for his high school radio station; moving to Chicago in the '50s, the actor was briefly a member of the Playwrights Theatre Club until he went to New York to try his luck on Broadway. Asner starred for several years in the off-Broadway production Threepenny Opera, and, toward the end of the '50s, picked up an occasional check as a film actor for industrial short subjects and TV appearances. Between 1960 and 1965, he established himself as one of television's most reliable villains; thanks to his resemblance to certain Soviet politicians, the actor was particularly busy during the spy-show boom of the mid-'60s. He ... showed up briefly as a regular on the New York-filmed dramatic series Slattery's People.
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American actor Ed Asner grew up having to defend himself both vocally and physically; he was raised in the only Jewish family in his neighborhood. A born competitor, Asner played championship football in high school, and organized a top-notch basketball team which toured most of liberated Europe. Asner's performing career got its start while he was announcing for his high school radio station; moving to Chicago in the 1950s, the actor was briefly a member of the Playwrights Theatre Club until he went to New York to try his luck on Broadway. Asner starred for several years in the off-Broadway production Threepenny Opera, and, toward the end of the 1950s, he picked up the occasional check as a film actor for industrial short subjects and TV appearances.
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