Ed Asner Speaking In New Jersey Editorial Image

Actor, voice-over artist, author, polemicist, former Screen Actors Guild president, and raconteur Ed Asner addresses his audience presentation at the Jewish Community Center in West Orange, New Jersey on December 10, 1997. Asner discussed his career and as a loyal progressive Democrat, politics. Grant, a 5-time Golden Globe winner and a 6-time Primetime Emmy winner, was perhaps best remembered as being the crotchety tv news editor `Lou Grant` in the long-running CBS hit sitcom, the `Mary Tyler Moore Show.` He also played the role of newspaper editor `Lou Grant` in his starring vehicle, a dramatic show that just happened to be called `Lou Grant.`