Charlton Heston, who took over from Asner in a highly publicised power play. “My presidency of the Screen Actors Guild, coupled at the same time with being one of the founding members of Medical Aid for El Salvador, created a conflict which eventually led to the cancellation of the Lou Grant show,” he wrote. “It was 1982, the height of Reagan power. ”It all sounds like an episode of Lou Grant, in which, at Lou’s instigation, star reporters Joe Rossi (Robert Walden) and Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey) gathered facts about how pressure groups force a TV network to cancel a show because of the political leanings of its star.
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