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Ed Asner is an award winning actor who holds the distinction of accomplishing one of the most extraordinary transitions in television programming history: he took his character Lou Grant—the gruff, hard drinking, but lovable boss of the newsroom at WJM TV Minneapolis on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a half-hour situation comedy—to the city editorship of the Los Angeles Tribune, on the one hour drama Lou Grant. Lou Grant's 12-year career on two successful, but very different, television shows established Asner as a major presence in American popular culture....
