Alan Alda: The 87-Year-Old Legend on M*A*S*H, The West Wing, and Building Chemistry Using Humor and Brutal Honesty
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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How I Became a Character Who Was So Unlike Me
"I always learned something with the unromantic, non-acting jobs," he says. "What it meant to me was we'll get a couple of weeks' work out of this." His father won the Tony for Guys and Dolls at age 30; his son has been nominated three times as well. He played Hawkeye on Mash: A skirt chaser, a womanizer who drank too much.
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