Happy Valentine’s Day. I forgot all about it until this morning, when my husband wished me day-related salutations.
I recently purchased the dvd set of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season One. I was disappointed, watching these episodes for the first time in 40 years, to see how small Ed Asner’s basket was in the tight slacks his character, Lou Grant, habitually wore. Around this same time, a friend reported reading Mary Tyler Moore’s autobiography. According to my friend, Mary reported an incident where she stumbled upon Ed, who was coming out of a shower on the set, buck naked. She judged Ed to be quite well endowed. This makes the non-basket-pushing quality of his TV appearances somewhat mystifying. Did he strap it down? Was he a “grower not a shower”? I suppose, at this late date, we’ll never know.
