Lou Grant Disses Mary Richards! (Ed Asner down on Mary Tyler Moore for liking Sarah Palin)

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | Friday, September 9, 2011 | Neal Justin

[kristinn]

The great thing about being a living legend is that you can pretty much speak your mind without major repercussions. I was reminded of that Thursday night when I found myself chatting with Ed Asner at a party celebrating the upcoming season at the Fitzgerald Theater. Asner's in town for his one-man performance as Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

By way of saying hello, I asked him what he thought of the announcement earlier in the day that Mary Tyler Moore would be getting a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.

Asner, 81, hadn't heard the news and, based on his reaction, he didn't really seem to care.

"She's changed," said Asner, who was once president of SAG and received its lifetime achievement award in 2001. "She's a Republican." Asner was now in his "I hate spunk" mode. "Last time I saw her, she said Sarah Palin was a great lady."

[AFreeBird]

[RexBeach]

Ed Asner as FDR? Boy, talk about the proverbial stretch.

[GSWarrior]

Ed Anser would be a seldom-viewed link at imdb.com were it not for Mary Tyler Moore.

[hoagy62]

Yes, but it was nice to learn that MTM likes Sarah Palin.

True.

[Da Coyote]

Lou’s a lib.

Libs have no class.

Ergo......

[samtheman]

commie old geeser ping

[AFreeBird]

Apparently Mary used to be more liberal/moderate. She wrote a book “Growing Up Again”.

I guess she did.

[RexBeach]

Ed Asner as FDR. Boy, talk about the proverbial stretch.

[lonevoice]

[passionfruit]

So, this means that she got wiser as she got older, and he didn’t.

[Carl LaFong]

I see him more as a Nikita Krushchev.

[cld51860]

Now I know why I always liked MTM.

[KC Burke]

The FDR role probably gives him some trouble -- as FDR was too right wing for Ed. He has been quoted as saying he would have loved to give a sensible portrayal of Joe Stalin, telling interviewers that: "I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,"

Asner loves to play the easy going kindly old fellow and he would have been at home starving millions if he had been in Eastern Europeon politics.

[C. Edmund Wright]

How ironic. What was said of MTM in the theme song “who can turn the world on with her smile....make it all seem worthwhile...” is sort of true of Palin too.

No one’s ever said that about Asner or his character Lou Grant.....

[chainsaw]

He doesn’t seem to mind promoting the Mary Tyler Moore show on MEtv.

How do you say residuals $

[LibLieSlayer]

McCarthy was right... well said!

LLS

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Mary’s got spunk.

Lou Grant hates spunk.

PepsiCo learned the hard way what the word, 'spunk' means in England.

Ever since I learned, I use it only in a joking manner.

:)

[AFreeBird]

I had the biggest crush on MTM when I was growing up. I thought she was HAWT!

[SevenofNine]

You beat me to it LOL!

[hummingbird]

Ed Asner is still alive. Who knew!?