ABILITY Magazine Interview: Ed Asner

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What prompted you to come see me?

(Interviewer 1) Great question.
We would ask you that!

(Interviewer 2) Yeah.

How so? What do you mean?
I didn't invite you.

(laughter)

What would I want you in my house for?

(No.1) We were going to ask you,
"Why are we here?"

I have no idea. Get out!

(No.2 laughs)

I came to Hollywood in '61.

We found an apartment on an estate
in the Hollywood Hills and rented it.

The second night we're there,
we hear a rustling outside.

So she went, peeked
through the blinds of the window

and there was a large avocado tree
growing right up next to the apartment,

and she beckoned me over.

I looked down,
and there were two raccoons,

sitting on their back,
chewing on avocados.

And I said, "This is for me."

(laughter)

Yeah, I'm still involved in show business.
I tour with a one-man show.

I do movies if you're making them,
and I'm quite viable...

in every sense of the word.

(laughter)

I have four children, and the