next up on dennis miller plus one what a treat for me he's 90 years old now still sharp as a tack still a little crotchety still a lot funny ed asner and he's going to new book up about coming up in the tough streets of kansas city it's called son of a junk man etc lou grant right after this on dennis miller plus one. day folks welcome to dennis miller plus one and still coming to you from home hope you're all doing well out there in a small tourist world we're joined by certainly one of the most on are certainly one of my favorite t.v. actors ever ed asner is on the show today it's known for his role obviously as mr brando on the mary tyler moore show spin off series lou grant he is literally the

most honored male performer i think in the history of the primetime emmy awards 8 for 16 anytime you hit and 500 was 16 and you're killin it he's got a new book out son of a junk man and add up from the bottoms in kansas city and we'll talk to him about his long trek from there through broadway out to l.a. and he still acting currently appears on the usa network show briarpatch opposite rosario dawson the estimable ed asner how are you my friend. i'm for her good interaction well presented for me. i will have to i will have it etched into tablets and presented through europe i'm the president i would tell everybody that there are their directions suck compared to theirs members. accurate and flattered by it all not all like a nice day down there where yet i don't even know you an l

a person yeah would you give those teeth these moves your teeth those are teeth i stuff i yes they are. nice i kid you guys don't know nice dog does off carly simon it hey i want to talk about you but i saw the paul rudd wrote the intro to this book john mann son of a john man and i'm wondering what is it about kansas city guys what's in your d.n.a. i'm from pittsburgh and i know i'll always stay a pittsburgh boy i assume there's somewhat of a similar vibration in a hard working class town like k.c. what would you take away from it the stages through life can city were just a plain city it's. it's not the plains is the end of the phrase because it's a very hilly city it varies from cincinnati right sure is new york i guess it's san francisco it's got these hero and i love hero it's

mountains. i don't mean at the top of the mountain we're close to the top of the mountain here towards center. what what about it topographically it sounds appealing but what about the the ethos that what did you take away from it it's about hard work it's about not being fully what's tell me about kansas city no well no nobody from there and here it is it's as we say and yet ish. if you always say. yes. to this of a fish oh yeah on the table does this often teach on the table and that's the way we deal in kansas city if you can put up that show. i see that the title son of

a gent bed tell me your remembrances of your father was. no b.s. guy well we know no he was a very just a jerk it's taciturn it's he. in a wicked stepmother he was chopping shingles it's him. and bill rouche at the age of 12 and he was soon got into the united states you were late teens and he served here cares a city where he had lawns front lines people and he. took a few bucks and he got a horse in the wagon and he went around collecting junk. isn't that funny that kirk douglas his father also to some degree the rag picker son and curt card just left us at one o 3 there's some something about the indefatigability the patriarch in that

scenario that i think holds you guys in good stead for long lives here here we we took rags to their the fifty's thing the world to deal with because assume arts dust but we could hear we even bought bones. you know like coming from such a proletariat background out i'm trying to think at what point does a young man who's collecting dusty rags and bones with his father in the middle of the country think that he wants to become an actor and a business and go to new york what was a lightbulb moment the light bulb was getting on stage having won the v. lead role in a contradiction and finding out what magic there is. where there's magic there you'll find. i assume everybody when they talk about the stage they talk

about finding a place that literally changed their life you can sense that the sense of fellowship the sense of magic as you refer to it the sense of camaraderie whenever i talk to people that no matter how famous they have got when they go back and start referencing their early days on the stage they get a beautiful smile comply on their face i guess it was the same with you or at your yes or you meet girls it's oh there you go that's why i'm one of the books that's where mark lawrence and he joined the communist party in 2. yeah redheads as they say in the communist party as an old newspaper man i don't have to tell you that we might have buried the lead there by not saying girls because that's always the be story even with spencer tracy that select that the best of our actor has included you always say and i got to meet girls so there's that too you go to new york and i'm fascinated by this credit face of the hero in

1060 was one of my favorites i'm wondering what it was like as a lad tell me about jack lemmon and that production at he was a dream work. jack and i came across he said or 2 or 3 times during the course of our careers i mean charm he was never a disappointment he's a good guy a sweet guy you know whenever i hear whenever a or new york academe stories and variably had the name little hog or sandy miserly strausberg i'm wondering to jeff a guru back that are we just learning it as you went to law i wanted to study was my business but they weren't taking anybody so. i staggered into still armor and tried out for a couple of months and didn't care for it and then i began studying with mirror

stove and she was wonderful she was wonderful while i was studying with her i had applied for lease ross burke. and then nobody came into his regular classes so while i was studying with mira i decided to give vent to leave at the same time he never measured up to mirror mirror was my stand on teacher and the rest of them can go to hell. you know when i whenever i read about stella adler it's usually in the guise of being you know obviously brando's teacher and she seemed to stress using all aspects of your imagination the lady who you settled on is your favorite teacher what was her method was she more to hear into a method or what did she preach what was the swing thought that struck with you there do we use what every. utterance

have a special doing how you wish to effect the listeners do. you have the 200 form whether to question whether to find out whether to tell miriam form so it was. i think i immediately did that method and was able to coast in the mirrors method. as mine were talking to ed asner and ed is 90 years old now he's still working as i said he's out there doing a show with rosario dawson it appears on the usa network it's called briar patch you know i'm interested as you became known obviously you're in everybody psyche the hard drive take on ed asner is gruff i'm wondering when you were young were you seeking out or were talent agents deeming you to be gruff in new york or were you

playing a myriad of roles that marriage or marriage are never settled in are. or. were never you could use a frat boy take me. i'm looking at printers you my friend you weren't exactly frank corson but i wouldn't call you fat guy actor you did have you had sort of a lawyer in bendix 30 bork died sort of stuff that about you but i would say that. now. i work there are no jobs on i learn how to apply the fact. what. you're in new york you have met me or you obviously have your guru you knock it out of the park i think you get a big score with 3 petty opera at some point a lot of guys are saying i'm staying in new york i don't want to go out to hollywood it's it's the devil's candy but 7 drew yat there what took out the

hollywood at wow i i got tired or new york i got tired of the unions not really being good unions i got tired of the stagehands who did not put the play 1st would put their next paycheck for years and i wanted to be in a place where there was good unionism and good support systems all from top to bottom and i vomited california i have to tell you it interesting story real quickly ed i met what i meant karl malden one night and you must know karl i'm sure your brother's friends over the years but i said to karl i said you know karl i find it amazing that elite has an a but shellbark 2 of the 2 of them leading spokespeople of the proletariat would name names that always blew my mind that they would be the ones you watch not or

for anything but what a stranglehold on the human condition they have how could they be the ones it's hard and i've ever called wild look to me he said dennis you should lecture you don't know how brave you are until they chain you to the radiator which was censored or well ian notion it set still hurt my spine. that's scary. as it was a great image and i look to karl and then later it made sense to me when karl was pushing for the honorary oscar for his that i think he disagreed with what he did but he obviously understood that not everybody was brave enough to lift up their career and just go over to you know to london like carl foreman some guys some guys did the deed and at least he had an insight into that that i hadn't thought of prior we're talking to ed asner he i want to i haven't even got to the ed as there's his. sanctum sanctorum the the greatest sitcom in my mind that ever was and

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needles. international memorial awards has extended its deadline for submissions. all media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or a part of a global news platform you can submit to your published works in either video format go to award dot com and into now. welcome back to dennis miller plus one where you see you are digg. we're just talking about ads nickname in the community being the post-hole digger and how he got that he assures me 5 minutes after this interview is over he'll be out on his verdant lawns songs robe. making an impression on the community you know that when you get out to act california i assume you go out with the ultimate

you know it's great to go out models go and photo shoots with their catalog you go out with a couple naked cities under your belt i watch those old shows in a boggles my mind out great they are when you get to new york how are you received does it matter to them that you've been back in new york and theater and live television was your reception when you get up there. well i always felt that i could've. left chicago taken a plane to new york changed planes to l.a. and then proceeded to launch my career here. they didn't care whether how much time i'd spend in new york as long as i was from really york. it geared t. that i i must have talent and i could feel them that way but i had spent 6 years in new york and i are now for what tell me when you hit the ground before we get to

the m.t.m. shell when you hit the ground in l.a. what do you do in procedurals area would tell me some of the shows and tell me some of the players you worked with him made a dent on you when you 1st get out there. i fortunately he's had spent one of those naked cities show me and l.a. and we threw a few people and came up with my agent very good agent named jack fields he. has special deal was trying to get blacklisted actors jobs in the industry that were still suffering from the blacklist. and he got to work immediately if he got me jobs. what are the i carry member of the 1st jobs. mr novak the times of.

yeah james franciscus yeah another route 66 here there is. there was a calvin lockhart he got me. a movie with. who's like room 222 who. but he was his for her cover and her car was his words so he's never been heard from since. you know what'd you get and can i can i take a 2nd and ask you when you talk about route 66 i obviously know maris and milner when you talk about mr novak jane strand siskiyous when you say calvin lockhart i have a complete gap there can you explain who is who is calvin lockhart and why that i have here anymore he was a little black jesus he was a good looking black rebel who. it's did not have good. it's good conduct it's. his out here who are

and he exhibited bad habits when we made this film and. they cared it's. well you know it's some point you can push it way far down the road in hollywood but when they start saying life's too short you're gone i've heard out of nowhere people who thought they were indispensable you get to the point where they go life's too short you're out back yeah yeah. so. what tell me about that was it the same agent that you were talking about a sense yacht for for the mary tyler moore thing tell me about who was there who to read with tell me about your 1st memories of that great well like i said the greatest sitcom ever. i read for ellen burns and jim brooks the 2 creators as it's. read and after i finished

reading jim brooks said so that was a very intelligent reading and i muttered yabber wasn't funny. and this is all we have you back to read with mary read it all we got wigged out wiki out and i don't know what the hell he's talking about so i said i said leave as you know we go way beyond angry this isn't funny turn around what did you have me read it that way now and if i don't do it well don't have me back i never told my dance before since but it worked it well we do have another appointment but oh i go again so i read it i read like i'm a sugar crazy crazy crazy and they laugh their governors are leaving just like that when you come back to read with mary well i said what did i do whatever i do it because comedy is frightening when you don't know how to do it and you only

learn lured by practice practice so i began to practice i began to repeat whatever i thought i had done came back in 2 weeks read with mary they laughed again. and said thank you i said early years later i found out that when i was out of the room mary turned to them and said are you sure. that your little grant. so that started 7 years. oh bliss sees a slow on chat at look i just called zulu because i'm trying to think of a guy who i can less separate his character from obviously i've enjoyed in so many things over the year but boy you talk about somebody hit in the mother load you were so him and he was so you i i just look back on it like i said it and i

have i hear that song i get such pleasant memories i know it's not going to be a simply show i know it's going to be hip i know it's going to be witty i know it's going to be brusque at some points but at the end of the day it's warm it was just perfect for me. good i'm good this is nice were telling her to. send me back you know some shows or some shows get asked to see a pot down there they're special ness and i never got that off that show i would always show up but i think at any given moment any one of these 5 to 6 people will be sacrificed to a hip story line and yet the fighter laid back maybe the next week they're in on the group and somebody else is the out there and obviously ted obviously ted plays the sort of vapid greek or christian but boy brooks i don't know burns as well but i think about brooks is movies and boy nobody knows nobody knows the whimsy and the

the seriousness of being a human being simultaneously like that guy unbelievable there it's he kept his eye he he worked as a reporter. in the media. oh i didn't know that at and that's where i started out i did not know that. it's terrorism vicki who i think but restored to me it's peaks when you guys were hitting the ball at i can't imagine was it a what a schwab to v.v. musta had to go to work or maybe i'd like to think that sometimes you peel stories back and people got no i was heavy lifting when i watched you 5 sing together i'd think boy they'd get to that that writer's table each week they must laugh their of i'd like to there that was it was it that was an issue you know it was 7 years then during those 7 years in the beginning haha i feel jealousy because they were concentrating on the women so march she she had to close leishman and sheer roder

and i thought god did have a god damn it and then firmly each one got a spin off off the show so graham left mary with the borys if you use them well. we're talking to ed asner and as i said your lead goes on to do lou grant that's how indelible that character is folks that's how firmly entrenched it is with people that even go from the preeminent sitcom like i said ever certainly of that generation they take it over and they put it in an hour format as essentially i guess the term now is dramedies i just remember it being really well written almost bochco like written what are your memories of the next permutation of look at over on the serious side well that was interesting and. i used to think i based my comedic move grant on my 2 older brothers.

full of bombast and slippery. and some tea and then when i got into the our show which didn't have barfs or supposedly good navl as i said i can't do the same character with this character i've got to find somebody else so i did i dived into myself and came up with the character and you saw as lou grant. and it worked it word. say but it must been it must been weird to figure out how much of that comedic look at the light fades out and how much of the more potter familias luke phase is very much must have been a delicate tightrope walk like it was interesting because i was in therapy of the time the show opened. there are night t.v.

and i. went in for my session of therapy and the 40 and said to me i said would you think he said what he grimaced so much and i realized. then it's a serious show but there laughs within it so the crew could laugh nobody good laugh but i wanted the audience at home to know they could laugh so i could stumble down the grimace i mean really stop grimacing once he made that 100. around him. if you imagine. he went area where there's no doubt he's felt. i've always felt the best shrink safe had in my life have looked across the room and be found the coat that i was hanging whatever my personality was at that given moment found the hook that i

was saying it all out told me about it and then immediately. it fell away so i understand that projection and i could parse this and there were times i'd think my god of course i had to know this but until they pointed out there's that transference i never noticed certain things about myself then they fell away like you said just like that. good girl i was that young actors name on there i was a robert walton i'm trying to remember not that kid's name is now because he has your neck your i caught that but i thought he was a hell of an actor that kid fears he is and he he. he knows how to get to the heart of a point. nice and easy as a university it's easier the university of texas oh ok that's cool yeah well listen he knows of what he speak because i thought he hit the hell out of that part you know close it out i just want to ask you i'm always intrigued i'm 66 now

i'll play get 90 i'd be god bless me if i get 90 what do you see out of your head on the top gave you're like you're going you know one of them has been way in in in your head what age do you feel or do you feel 90 i don't know i don't know why i don't know i had 4 similar years we all were. the youngest darter 94 so i got it here to 94 and he's yeah yeah you got to keep up the family brand ed asner yeah well listen the junk band raise some good boys there and this is something you do john but. my life in the west bottoms of kansas city is a bright lights of hollywood i assume that's the the man there who was the jumping off point for all these lads and where it's been a hell of a life i don't know you that well but i can tell you this from afar i've always

admired your intelligence and like i said that's the greatest sitcom ever and you and mary right at the hub of it so i thank you for all the laughs and all the insights over my life now who are your dads are pretty sure to take care yourself brother get new norad on that lawn. this is been dennis miller on his own who didn't have. very few. but back. ah no no crow. no shots no. traction belts. well stress

no risk to a. point should your thirst for actual. nuclear help become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is or powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r.t. . join me every thursday on the elec simon show and i'll be speaking

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