Milestones
Sep 03, 2021
2 minutes
—JUDY BERMAN
—MADELEINE CARLISLE
DIED
Ed Asner
A crusader onscreen and off
FOR AMERICANS OF A CERTAIN AGE, THE ARCHETYPAL journalist looks a lot like Ed Asner. Gruff, temperamental and jaded on the surface, his beloved character Lou Grant—whom he played for seven seasons on and five on an eponymous spin-off that recast Lou as an L.A. newspaper editor—was, at his core, a principled defender of truth. Asner, who
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