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The Screen Actors Guild's love affair with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" beats on. It was announced Thursday that Mary Tyler Moore will receive the 2011 SAG Life Achievement Award during the body's awards show on Jan. 29.

Moore, who made her biggest mark starring in the Minneapolis-based sitcom, joins former castmates Ed Asner, who won the award in 2001, and Betty White, who took it home in 2009. Coincidentally, Asner is currently in the Twin Cities, prepping for his one-man performance as Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Other Moore connections? Robert Redford, her director in "Ordinary People," was honored in 1995.

SAG president Ken Howard said: "Mary Tyler Moore won our hearts as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, our respect as her production company became synonymous with quality television, our awe as she tackled difficult subject matter in film and on Broadway, and our admiration as she turned her public recognition into a catalyst to draw attention to critical and deeply personal health and social issues."

Good thing Howard mentioned the production company, MTM Enterprises, which Moore co-founded with her then-husband Grant Tinker. MTM produced Howard's show, "The White Shadow."