The Great Creators with Guy Raz Alan Alda: The 87-Year-Old Legend on M*A*S*H, The West Wing, and Building Chemistry Using Humor and Brutal Honesty
May 30, 2023
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Alan Alda: The Most Famous Actor in America
01:45 • 3min
Alda's Memoirs
05:00 • 3min
The Sister Candy Treatment for Polio
08:03 • 2min
The Importance of Being a Role Model in Acting
09:56 • 4min
The Importance of a Father's Son Moment
13:52 • 2min
The Importance of Being Funny
15:52 • 3min
The Dream of a Career in the Theater
18:26 • 2min
The Importance of Improv
20:13 • 4min
How to Be a Successful Actor
23:44 • 2min
The Importance of Improvisation in Acting
25:23 • 2min
The Great Creators: Flipping the Bird, Elon vs Twitter
27:03 • 2min
How I Became a Character Who Was So Unlike Me
29:30 • 4min
Alan Alda: A Foreign Character
33:15 • 2min
The Importance of Being Like the Character
34:47 • 2min
The Importance of Playing a Hero
36:39 • 2min
The Tension on Set
38:44 • 5min
How to Be a Great Actor in a Play
44:03 • 2min
Alan Alda on Improvisation in the West Wing
46:20 • 2min
How I Pursued a Separate Career in Science
48:09 • 5min
The Relationship Between Science and the General Public
53:27 • 3min
The Moments That Make Me Happy
56:34 • 2min
How to Cope With Parkinson's
58:54 • 4min
Alan Alda on the Importance of Science
01:02:36 • 4min