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PAGE 18 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October \ 19H6 /xli-ifil Wishing all our friends a Happy New Year from Christos’ Pizza 1475 Terrell Mill Rd. Marietta. GA 30067 952-1965 The real ‘Lou Grant’ stands up; Asner talks about Jewishness Ed Asner involved in one of his causes. paper career that began in the early '60s. I've worked for my share of editors. Only a couple came close to being Lou Grant characters. Most were self-satisfied prouncial men. corrupt and mediocre, no more capable of Lou Grant-type heroism than most small-town Ro- tarians. But the fact that a couple of them had genuine heroism, courage and talent, made Lou Grant believable to me. In real life, one of these editors was a drunken Irishman—don’t ask me if that’s a redundancy— who sang Irish revolutionary bal lads when he was drunk, w hich was often. But he taught me how to get the facts and how to write a story under pressure, and he had a pho tographic memory full of Shakes peare and James Joyce, and his monologues were incredible The other editor who affected me pro foundly was from an upper-crust New England family who were large California landow ners From him I learned about power—its uses, abuses and absurdities “Lou Grant” had many o! the qualities 1 saw in both men. so much so that I never even thought about the obvious. What national ity was Grant? Asner. I learned while talking to him recently, thinks Grant had the map of Israel writ ten all over his face. I asked Asner about this. He says that in the Mary Tyler Moore show, where Lou Grant first appeared as a character, no mention w as made of Grant's ethnic background Atone point, the producers ot "Lou Grant told Asner they wanted to protect the idea that Grant w as a Cathohc They said that, but at best, says Asner. “it was alway-s a formation in the back of their heads ~ Continued next J jo^ by Lionel Rolfe To me. like millions of other jveopie. Ed Asner will always be "Lou Grant." the famous news paper cuy editor of telex ision fame And as a tough, talented, honest, fair city editor, these very charac teristics earned him in real life, the predictable ar.d inevitable back of the hand too often meted out to the good guys by the powers-that-be. The "Lou Grant" show —most rea sonable observers concluded—w as kicked off the network TV for pol itical reasons, despite high ratings. I don’t normally watch televi sion or follow Hollywood gossip. But I never missed an opportunity to view “Lou Grant." In a news- “LOVE” AND “UNDERSTANDING”... TWO WORDS THAT ARE OUR FOUNDATION AND OUR PLEDGE WM « “>*>•**«* WNG SPRINGS VILLAGE Beat:- Cere Center prcmdes the finest * ** our jo» * to -ok,- our resorts: ot-.-ectable. -.spot. and secure ck. rro.-onv rte te. rt pra«K>r.a core and a ran* « sva and recreational tr.>ci”is * ~*a: s KlNc> SPRINGS VILLAGE rva - - ^ »:f Ccr-cr t^tcoe-s :~*£ iirtif c v: - :%»: assure a wing tv treat. dbjjncy arc ndeperxdenc* (Xa e.—iphasxs s a-acs on the c-aii r» or hv Extra tare Extra service Ext-a rcerost -> sho«* a-c sra-dre’ - at tor Vxarf -a-—iK rctroc :c arc obs«vf "mst"a~c or «'o» -aroc or soc*a arc nccrtamtira pr.yrarj., a~c to -»•* cc .vacarot s:a~ *x f are corotv K*tx_ .ol i>x* -ma: »<o_ sev KING SPRINGS VILLAGE HEALTH CARE CENTER 404 King Springs Village Pkvvy. Smyrna. Georgia 30080 (404) 432-4444 Dave Morgan, mar- r. s:r^:or VtsV Sr*j»b 4giar vfvoam -.oe ***** r 4 ,*o*'- .aj -wnire- x. _ _ V> _ ttx *>»** *0*'