For DU'ers in the Cal bay area, this sounds like a must see:

[n2doc]

'FDR': Ed Asner plays his hero

Steven Winn, Special to The Chronicle

Thursday, July 15, 2010



Ed Asner performed one of television's notable feats of 1970s alchemy by creating Lou Grant as the gruff comic boss at a hapless TV station in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," then making that character the focus of a subsequent drama about newspaper journalism.

"Lou Grant" ran from 1977 to 1982, winning the star two of his seven Emmy Awards. Other achievements in a long and varied career include playing Kunta Kinte's kidnapper in the miniseries "Roots," performing with the Compass Players and Second City improv troupes, serving two sometimes stormy terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild and voicing the lead role of Carl Fredricksen in the 2009 animated film "Up."

Long devoted to left-wing causes, Asner is playing one of his heroes in a San Jose Repertory Theatre engagement of "FDR," a solo play about Franklin Delano Roosevelt based on Dore Schary's 1958 Broadway hit "Sunrise at Campobello."

Asner, 80, spoke by phone from an office in Southern California. The "I" in his responses occasionally blurred the line between the actor himself and Roosevelt.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/15/DD9I1EBVMV.DTL&type=performance

[Binka]

1. I'll Be Attending

I love Asner!

[lob1]

2. I've met Mr. Asner several times. He's a truly nice

person, and he's always been a voice for liberal causes. He's also a fine actor and I know he'll do well in the play.

[Ignis]

3. Oh, that should be an interesting play. Thanks for the link!

I don't usually make it to the SJ Rep, but I'll make an exception here. :kick:

[virgogal]

4. He seems a bit old to be playing FDR IMHO.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. If I lived anywhere near SJ I would be there in a heartbeat