Frothy Paradise

“Ed Asner is “dragging ass,” as he puts it. On doctor’s orders, he’s been doing push-ups and hitting the elliptical machine, but exercise doesn’t send him “out on wings of song.” The irascible, self-deprecating 79-year-old, best-known for playing Lou Grant on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and the eponymous spinoff, has his biggest gig in years: voicing crabby Carl Fredricksen in ‘Up.’”

This interview provides more reason to love Ed Asner, as though we needed one.