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ED ASNER (1929–2021)

OMETIMES IT ONLY takes a moment to become a TV icon. For Ed Asner, that moment arrived in 1970 during the first episode of , when Lou Grant acknowledged new hire Mary Richards’ spunk, then took a beat before growling, “I hate spunk.”

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