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Lou Grant
Created by
James L. Brooks
Allan Burns
Gene Reynolds
Developed by
Leon Tokatyan
Starring
Edward Asner
Robert Walden
Linda Kelsey
Mason Adams
Jack Bannon
Daryl Anderson
Nancy Marchand
Rebecca Balding
Composer(s)
Patrick Williams (majority of episodes)
Artie Kane ("Pills")
Miles Goodman
Hod David Schudson
Les Hooper
James DiPasquale ("Bomb")
Shirley Walker
(incomplete listing)
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
114 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Allan Burns
James L. Brooks
Gene Reynolds
Running time
46–48 minutes
Production company(s)
MTM Productions
Distributor
20th Television
Release
Original network
CBS
Audio format
Monaural
Original release
September 20, 1977 (1977-09-20) – September 13, 1982 (1982-09-13)
Chronology
Preceded by
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Followed by
Mary and Rhoda
Lou Grant is an American drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The series was the third spin-off of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Lou Grant was created by The Mary Tyler Moore Show co-creators James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, along with Gene Reynolds.
Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama Series". Asner won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" in 1978 and 1980. In doing so, he became the first person to win an Emmy Award for both "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series" for portraying the same character. Lou Grant also won two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, an Eddie Award, three awards from the Directors Guild of America and two Humanitas Prizes.
Contents
1 Summary and setting
2 Production
3 Broadcast history
4 Awards
5 Cancellation
6 DVD releases
7 References
8 External links
Summary and setting[edit]
Lou Grant works as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune daily newspaper, a job he takes after being fired from the WJM television station at the end of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. (Grant mentions several times on Mary Tyler Moore that he had begun his career as a print journalist.) Given the shift from comedy to drama in this show, the nature of Grant's interactions with others is toned down. References to Grant's oftentimes excessive drinking, which had been an ongoing comic theme on Mary Tyler Moore, were deemphasized on the new show.
The rest of the main cast includes: general-assignment reporters Joe Rossi (Robert Walden) and Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey) (Kelsey joined the show in the fourth episode, replacing Rebecca Balding, who had portrayed reporter Carla Mardigian); managing editor Charles Hume (Mason Adams), an old friend of Lou's who has convinced him to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles; assistant city editor Art Donovan (Jack Bannon); photographer Dennis Price (Daryl Anderson), usually referred to as "Animal," and widowed, patrician publisher Margaret Jones Pynchon (Nancy Marchand), a character loosely based on a composite of real-life newspaper executives Dorothy Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Katharine Graham of The Washington Post. Recurring actors who played editors of various departments included Gordon Jump and Emilio Delgado; Peggy McCay had a recurring role as Charlie Hume's wife Marion.
Despite the show's connection with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of that series's other regular characters ever appeared (and were not referred to onscreen); the only other "crossover" character was MTM recurring character Flo Meredith (Eileen Heckart) (Mary Richards' role model and honorary aunt), a churlish veteran journalist with whom Lou had had a brief fling while in Minneapolis, and who appeared on a single episode of Lou Grant. However, lead actors from other MTM shows did appear in guest roles as other characters, including Jane Rose, Richard Schaal and Julie Kavner.
Ed Asner, Nancy Marchand and Mason Adams (1977)
The episodes often had Grant assigning Rossi and Billie to cover news stories, with the episode's plots revealing problems of the people covered in the stories as well as frustrations and challenges reporters experienced to get the stories. The younger reporters are frequently seen turning to Lou for guidance and mentorship over some of the hard questions and moral dilemmas they experience as they work on their stories. The series frequently delved into serious social issues, such as nuclear proliferation, mental illness, prostitution, gay rights, domestic violence, capital punishment, child abuse, rape and chemical pollution, in addition to demonstrating coverage of breaking news stories such as fires, earthquakes, and accidents of all kinds. The series also took serious examination of ethical questions in journalism, including plagiarism, checkbook journalism, entrapment of sources, staging news photos, and conflicts of interest that journalists encounter in their work. There were also glimpses into the personal lives of the Tribune staff.
Production[edit]
Lou Grant was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Unlike The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was a 30-minute sitcom, Lou Grant was a one-hour drama.
When The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended its run, that series' co-creators and producers, James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, had a commitment to create a new show starring Ed Asner. They decided that it was easier to retain the popular Lou Grant character and make it a spinoff series. Mary Tyler Moore had already established that the character had a previous newspaper career. Brooks and Burns' decision to make the spinoff series a one-hour realistic drama instead of another situation comedy was influenced by the 1976 film All the President's Men, and how that movie depicted the operation of a major newspaper.[1]
Gene Reynolds, who was producing the TV show M*A*S*H at the same time, was also brought on as a co-creator and executive producer. Gary David Goldberg was a producer for the series. The theme music Lou Grant was composed by Patrick Williams.
Broadcast history[edit]
Lou Grant aired on CBS from September 1977 to September 1982. A total of 114 episodes were produced. In the second half of the 1990s, in syndication, the show was carried on cable TV's A&E Network. For a list of episodes, see List of Lou Grant episodes.
Awards[edit]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Lou Grant
Lou Grant won several critical honors during its run, including 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and two Humanitas Prizes.
Asner won two Emmys for his portrayal of Grant; Marchand won an Emmy for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" four of the five years the series ran; Walden, Kelsey, and Adams all received multiple nominations for supporting Emmys.
Cancellation[edit]
Ed Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity during the 1980s he opposed U.S. policy in Central America, working closely with Medical Aid for El Salvador. The sudden cancellation of Lou Grant in 1982 was the subject of much controversy. The show had high ratings, the level of which should have justified its ongoing presence in primetime (it was in the ACNielsen top ten throughout its final month on the air).[citation needed] However, the CBS television network declined to renew the show. It has been Asner's consistent position that his political views, as well as the publicity surrounding them, were the actual root causes for the show's cancellation.[2]
DVD releases[edit]
Shout! Factory has released all five seasons on DVD in Region 1.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
The Complete First Season 22 May 24, 2016
The Complete Second Season 24 August 16, 2016
The Complete Third Season 24 November 22, 2016
The Complete Fourth Season 20 February 21, 2017
The Complete Fifth and Final Season 24 March 13, 2018
References[edit]
Bibliography
Daniel, Douglass K. (1996). Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815626756.
Notes
Jump up ^ Daniel 1996, pp. 19–23
Jump up ^ Kassel, Michael B. (November 29, 2007). "Asner, Ed". Museum of Broadcast Communications. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
Jump up ^ Lou Grant: Season One. Available on DVD from Shout! Factory Archived 2016-05-23 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Stop the Presses! Shout! Factory Announces 'The Complete 2nd Season'!' Archived 2016-05-08 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ 'The Complete 3rd Season' is Scheduled for DVD this Fall Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ The Next-to-Last Season of the Show is Scheduled for DVD Archived 2016-10-30 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ 'Lou Grant - FINAL EDITION! The Complete 5th and Final Season is Announced Shout! Factory scheduled a May release date for this 5-DVD set' Archived 2017-02-14 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Lou Grant - 'The Complete 5th and Final Season' DVDs Are Back on the Schedule! 5-disc set from Shout! is finally coming out with the show's final episodes Archived 2017-12-09 at the Wayback Machine.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lou Grant (TV series).
Lou Grant on IMDb
Lou Grant at TV.com
The Unofficial Lou Grant Internet Resource and Archive (site of Daryl Anderson)
The Canonical Lou Grant Episode Guide
Lou Grant at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
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"Chuckles Bites the Dust"
"The Last Show"
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Piano Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)
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Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 was composed some time during 1796–98.
The first movement of the sonata has a 3/4 meter, the second movement 2/4, and the final movement 2/2. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 5 is a first-period composition, anticipating more notable C minor works such as the Pathétique Sonata and the Fifth Symphony in its nervous energy.
Like all three sonatas of his Opus 10, it is dedicated to Anna Margarete von Browne, the wife of one of Beethoven's patrons, a Russian diplomat in Vienna.[1]
Contents
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1 Form
1.1 First movement
1.2 Second movement
1.3 Third movement
2 References
3 External links
Form[edit]
The sonata is divided into three movements:
Allegro molto e con brio in C minor
Adagio molto in A flat major
Finale: Prestissimo in C minor
First movement[edit]
The first movement, in sonata form, opens energetically with contrasting loud and soft phrases. The theme is angular in shape, both in its rising arpeggios and its dotted rhythm. The exposition lasts from mm. 1–105. The primary theme, a modified sentence structure, lasts from mm. 1–30. The transition, which is separately thematized and provides a quiet contrast, is in two parts and lasts from mm. 31–55. The secondary theme, which is accompanied by an Alberti bass, lasts from mm. 56–75 and ends with the essential exposition closure. The closing section, in two parts, quotes both secondary and primary themes. The development (after Darcy/Hepokoski's Sonata Theory) is half-rotational and divides into pre-core and core sections (after William Caplin); it lasts from mm. 106–168. The retransition, mm. 158–167, leads into the recapitulation. The recapitulation is at mm. 168–284, 11 measures longer than the exposition. The exposition's transition is altered harmonically in the recapitulation. Initially, the secondary theme is stated in F major (predominant), a "false start", before being stated in tonic C minor. The secondary theme is also expanded from the exposition. The essential structural closure is in m. 253.
Second movement[edit]
The second movement is a lyrical Adagio with many embellishments. It is in A–B–A–B or "sonatina" form (there is no development section, only a single bar of a rolled V7 chord leading back to the tonic key); an apparent third appearance of the main theme turns into a coda, which slowly fades to a final perfect cadence.
Third movement[edit]
The third movement is in sonata form, making heavy use of a figure of five eighth notes. The short development section contains an unmistakable foreshadow of the theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The coda slows the tempo down, leading to a final outburst which fades to a quiet but agitated Picardy third.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ BBC Radio 3 website
External links[edit]
A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata op. 10 no. 1
Recording by Paavali Jumppanen, piano from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For a public domain recording of this sonata visit Musopen
Piano Sonata No. 5: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2
No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3
No. 4 in E♭ major, Op. 7 (Grand Sonata)
No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1
No. 6 in F major, Op. 10, No. 2
No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique)
No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1
No. 10 in G major, Op. 14, No. 2
Nos. 11–20
(Opp. 22–49)
No. 11 in B♭ major, Op. 22
No. 12 in A♭ major, Op. 26 (Funeral March)
No. 13 in E♭ major, Op. 27, No. 1
No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight)
No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (Pastoral)
No. 16 in G major, Op. 31, No. 1
No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (The Tempest)
No. 18 in E♭ major, Op. 31, No. 3 (The Hunt)
No. 19 in G minor and No. 20 in G major, Op. 49
Nos. 21–32
(Opp. 53–111)
No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)
No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
No. 24 in F♯ major, Op. 78 (À Thérèse)
No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
No. 26 in E♭ major, Op. 81a (Les adieux)
No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
No. 29 in B♭ major, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
No. 31 in A♭ major, Op. 110
No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Unnumbered (WoO)
Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47
Piano Sonata in C major, WoO. 51 (fragmentary work)
Spurious/doubtful (Anh.)
Sonatina in G major, Anh. 5, No. 1
Sonatina in F major, Anh. 5, No. 2
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