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...most expensive half-minute in TV history. In syndication, M*A*S*H's earnings already exceed $200 million, and keep on growing. There is a price for success, and Fox should be happy to pay it: a reported $5 million or so a year to Alan Alda, who anchored the show as Captain Hawkeye Pierce and wrote and directed many of the most memorable episodes in a series whose writing was often of the highest, hippest quality...
...encounter therapy and bootcamp. "I'm totally exhausted and depressed," sighs Farr. Says Swit: "I feel as if I've never not done M*A*S*H." Ask them what the show was, what made it unique, and you get a jumble of answers and impressions. From Alda: "The audience made a pact with us. We could be as imaginative and exploratory as we wanted-black-and-white newsreel style for 'The Interview,' surrealist in 'Dreams,' shooting in actual time or covering a whole year in one episode-because they knew we would never...
...religion. However, the bulk of that mail is in coherent Two letters outlining societal do's and don't's are signed by Jesus Christ and the Messiah respectively The latter correspondent prophesies that on the Monday following the Resurrection. Millicent Fenwick will become President and Alan Alda will become the Secretary of Radio...
They considered Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore and Warren Beatty before deciding an actor was not quite right for the role. Still in search of a narrator for their film responding to Reagan's speech, the Democrats turned to Harry McPherson. Harry...
...show's creators and stars were feted with a black-tie dinner in West Hollywood by CBS and the series' producer, 20th Century-Fox. Among M*A*S*H alumni, only Wayne Rogers, 49 (a.k.a. Trapper John McIntyre), turned up to share a homecoming hug with Alan Alda, 46, characteristically unshaven, but sporting a tux. Demobbing Day on the air for the current M*A*S*H regulars is Feb. 28, when, with the war over, the members of the 4077th return home to families and civilian jobs...