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Thankfully, what remained was the television show’s greatest asset: Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, played by Alan Alda. Hawkeye, the camp’s head surgeon, was gently insubordinate, quick-witted, and altogether adorable (Mr. Alda, if you’re reading this, I’m still interested). As the series—and the Vietnam War—progressed, “M*A*S*H” grew increasingly serious in tone, and the character of Hawkeye increasingly liberal...
...more hits - and good films - in him: Summer of '42 (1971), the romance of a teenage boy and a lovely young war widow; The Other (1972), a spectral mood piece about nine-year-old twins involved in murder; and Same Time, Next Year (1978), with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn as annual adulterers. As his career wore on, and Hollywood jettisoned sentiment and subtlety for sharks and light sabers, Mulligan's aura dimmed. He had outlived the mood he so delicately captured...
...particular reason Mark Halperin named folks who are all dead in listing McCain's peers [April 21]? No mention of Alan Alda, Robert Redford, Vaclav Havel or Silvio Berlusconi. Gee, I wonder why not. Jeffrey Barry, MARBLEHEAD, MASS...
Just months after expressing interest in the project, Murphy was on a flight to Rwanda with Alda Ly and Marika N. Shioiri-Clark, two other architecture students at the Design School, to do research for a potential hospital in the country’s Butaro district. In Rwanda, they found blueprints that included rooms with poor ventilation and dim lighting, both of which are ideal conditions for the spread of tuberculosis...
...come up to me and tell me that they enjoy it. I have a part in a film which will be showing at New York’s Gen Art Film Festival this week, and which opens in July, called “Diminished Capacity”, with Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick. And in June, I’m starting a four-month stint in the play “August: Osage County” with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Broadway—it’s a sort of epic drama about a family in Oklahoma dealing...