News and opinions about TV actor Alan Alda. According to Wikipedia: Alan Alda is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist.
Legendary TV star Alan Alda is helping the families of wounded U.S. troops, by auctioning off two pieces of military memorabilia from the set of his hit 1970s show M*A*S*H. Read Full Story
Weston Sprott, African American trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, tells Rashida Black of The Myrtle Hart Society, MyrtleHart.org/ : “ I will also be performing Stravinksy's Soldier's Tale in recital with Alan Alda narrating at the 92nd St Y here in NYC on April 29th and 30th.” The website of the 92 nd Street Y announces: “ Chamber Music at the Y with Alan Alda”, and explains “Alan Alda unites his two passions, music and theater, in dramatic presentations of two colorful chamber... Read Full Story
Alan Alda is 71 years young. He and his wife, Arlene, have three daughters: Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. They have seven grandchildren. Alda is the only regular to appear as 'Hawkeye Pierce' in all 251 episodes of M*A*S*H. His movies include: Paper Lion, Kill Me If You Can, California Suite, Sweet Liberty, Betsy's Wedding, The Aviator, and my all-time favorite: Same Time, Next Year. Alan experienced polio as a child and I suspect that may have added to his sensitivity. He's written two... Read Full Story
Last Saturday night I attended one of Stanley Drucker ’s final performances at Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. As principal clarinet he has performed 10,200 concerts with the orchestra and appeared as a soloist over 200 times! Can you imagine the kind of stamina and devotion required to be able to have accomplished this? At the age of 80, Stanley Drucker has had a 60 year career with the orchestra and will be in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the... Read Full Story
After actor Alan Alda recovered from a nearly fatal intestinal obstruction, he decided to live as if he'd been given a second life. To make his new life as meaningful as possible, he wanted to remember those rare moments when a special stillness had come over him, the kind that hits you when you hear something that goes to the core of who you think you are. [...] Read more! Read Full Story
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - Some of my earliest television memories involve M*A*S*H. My parents were die-hard fans, and would watch every week, and then every night, when it became syndicated. That show could make my parents, laugh, cry, and go off on discussions about the... Read Full Story
Alan Alda has earned international recognition as an actor, writer and director. A graduate of Forham University, Alda was an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves before becoming a member of the acting ... Read Full Story
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