Word: alda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALAN ALDA Stat! M*A*S*H doc checks into ER. Scrubs always suited him better than Woody Allen flicks...
...were one of the millions of fans who mourned the demise of M*A*S*H in 1983, you probably find solace in watching reruns every night and most days on local stations and cable. But they incense ALAN ALDA, who played Hawkeye in the TV series, and creator LARRY GELBART. They contend that Fox, which owns the licensing rights to M*A*S*H, has frittered away their show's value by airing so many reruns. In a lawsuit filed about 15 months ago against 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that...
Meanwhile, as philanthropy becomes more strategic, the old human-services standbys--like hospitals, homeless shelters and soup kitchens--have had to scramble for support. The Jenjo Foundation, created and run by actor Alan Alda's family, focuses specifically on nonprofits that work with poor women and children. "We tend to fund organizations that will help people get on their feet," says Elizabeth Alda O'Heaney, 38, the family's second daughter, "rather than just give someone a handout for a meal." The family visits prospective grantee's sites, closely vets budgets and interviews local community members. Says O'Heaney: "Whether...
...would like it to be seen that way. He has created for himself an unprecedented persona. We have always known him by his contradictions--the raging moderate, the compassionate realist, the hardheaded dreamer. But now Clinton emerges as something new: a feminist Lothario, a New Age Don Juan, Alan Alda with a zipper problem...
...nice muddle, especially since Wasserstein provides the couple with all kinds of complications. She has rich, interfering relatives (Alan Alda and the divinely bitchy Allison Janney). He soon has a new gay flame (Amo Gulinello) whose worldly-wise longtime companion (wonderfully portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne) gets hurt as hard as Nina does. But it's also too much of a muddle. There is no logical way to arrange the kind of romantic reconciliation the writer, director (Nicholas Hytner) and we desperately want to enjoy. For neither Wasserstein nor Rudd quite wants to come to grips with the fact that George...