"Mr. Asner, I do have a question – unrelated to the film," I said. "In your long and distinguished acting career, going back to your earliest days in Chicago all the way up to present days working with Will Farrell on 'Elf', you have had the chance to do almost anything you could ever wish to do. But if you had the chance to play the biographical story of a historical figure you respected most over your lifetime, who would it be?"
Remembering the sad story he had told about the poor kids in Chicago, I half expected him to come out with a political name of some sort.
"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin."
OOOOOhhhhh..Ed Asner...the great liberal...Don't get me started here about Mr. Asner and his personal morals. I know of two women, who each have a child from him out-of-wedlock and brought those children up without his child support....yeh, he is a great humanitarian for everyone else, just not his kids. Pluuueeze.