Lou Grant
by Corey Allen, Donald A. Baer, Burt Brinckerhoff, Georg Stanford Brown, James Burrows (II)
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Actor: Ed AsnerDirector: Burt Brinckerhoff, Corey Allen, Donald A. Baer, Georg Stanford Brown, James Burrows (II)
Format: NTSC
Movie Reviews of Lou Grant
Movie Review: A Few Tears and a Smile for TV Done Right
Summary: 5 Stars
Lou Grant was TV done right. I don't have cable and my old dad made sure my sister and I grew up without TV. But we did see the Lou Grant show, because my dad and a few pals of his were avid Bob Dylan bootleg record collectors and Ed Asner's brother Ben owned a record store in KC called Capers Corners. Ben was a funny guy and he had a hip store. My dad loved to go in there whenever he could, because Ben always had interesting things, not to mention rare TMoQ and CBM bootlegs you couldn't find anywhere else.
One of my dad's friends, who was also a Capers Corners Customer, had all the Lou Grants on Betamax and my sister and I loved to go to his house, because he had a TV and let us watch, so we kind of grew up a bit with Lou, both on his show and on the Mary Tyler Moore show. My dad and his pal loved Ben, so by association they loved Ed, even though they didn't know him.
Back then the Lou Grant show must have shocked people, because it was no ordinary sitcom. It dealt with the issues of the day in a way that probably made some in government feel a bit uncomfortable. It was good, hard hitting TV and, like I said in my opening paragraph, it was TV done right.
Ben Asner passed away two decades ago and I still remember how sad my dad was. My old dad passed away two years ago and I'm still sad. And I'm sure I'll be even more sad when they finally release this on DVD, but I'll be first in line to get it and I'll watch The Lou Grant Show with a few tears a slight smile for Ben and my dad.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane