Ed Asner
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"Edward "Ed" Asner" is an American film, television & stage actor, and voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant (fictional character)/Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its Spin-off (media)/spin-off series Lou Grant (TV series)/Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama.

In 2009, he Voice acting/starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film Up (2009 film)/Up. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class (TV series)/Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel Country Music Television/CMT. He starred in the Canadian television series Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 television series The Glades (TV series)/The Glades, in the episode "Killer Barbecue".

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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

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I come up here to get away from the sun.

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Beneath The Surface .

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Yet the ratings kept going down. We finally figured it out; people don't dislike John, they're just tired of bad news. When they flip on the TV, they want to get AWAY from their problems, not hear about people getting thrown overboard tied to their boat anchor or working out so they can strangle innocent kids faster and better.

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Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.

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You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has been threatened with outsourcing, be it Italy, be it Australia, New Zealand, and certainly, Canada.

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The interns recommended a new, Survivor format for news anchors. Every week viewers can vote to banish a news reporter off to 60 Minutes, 48 hours, or some other pseudo-news program. The one who's left will be our new anchor.

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