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Alan Alda, born Jan. 28, 1936, is an award-winning actor best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.
Alan Alda, born Jan. 28, 1936, is an award-winning actor best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.
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David Mamet is all around Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.comQuick. Name the most produced playwright, living or dead, on Broadway this year. Shakespeare? Not nearly. Neil Simon? Not anymore. I don't know what the surprise answer says about the mentality of today's theatergoing public, but I prefer to see it...Tags: Nathan Lane, Al Pacino, Movies, Jeremy Piven, Broadway
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"Speed-the-Plow" Revival Better Than The Original
Special to The CourantDriven by knockout acting by Jeremy Piven, Raśl Esparza and Elisabeth Moss, the revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" sizzles, then burns. Mamet is targeting business in America. He plays for higher stakes than in "American Buffalo," the rare coin...Tags: Doug Brown, Ethel Barrymore, Broadway, Jeremy Piven, David Mamet
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'Flash of Genius'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comLike so many biography films, "Flash of Genius" obeys certain rules: The little guy fights the system, ignores the naysayers and sticks to his principles. But the movie makes one departure from convention: Its hero is also kind of a jerk. He is Robert...Tags: Ford Motor Co., Greg Kinnear, Movies, Automotive Equipment, Dermot Mulroney
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Director Marc Abraham tells story of common man with 'Genius'
Sun Movie CriticJohn Seabrook, the author of the original New Yorker story about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, loves the movie adaptation with the same name, Flash of Genius. It retains every pungent line Seabrook put on paper, no...Tags: Ford Motor Co., Frank Capra Jr., Charles Dickens, Movies, Automotive Equipment
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Nobel is postscript to bitter 1980s HIV dispute
AP Science WriterThe awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday writes a postscript to a bitter scientific dispute in the 1980s over who deserved credit for discovering HIV and the resulting test to screen blood for it. The Nobel committee honored French scientist...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Awards and Prizes, Diseases, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, AIDS
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Movie Review: 'Flash of Genius' intermittently good
Orlando SentinelFlash of Genius is a biopic that lacks the flash of inspiration, the sting of wit, the pangs of pathos. The story of the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper isn't a bad film. But producer-turned-director Marc Abraham, and the writers and...Tags: Greg Kinnear, Movies, Invention and Innovation, Roger Moore
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'Flash of Genius' Throws Off No Sparks
Orlando Sentinel"Flash of Genius" is a film biography that lacks the flash of inspiration, the sting of wit, the pangs of pathos. The story of the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper isn't a bad film. But producer-turned-director Marc Abraham and the...Tags: Jeff Bridges, Ford Motor Co., Greg Kinnear, Movies, Invention and Innovation
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Review: 'Flash of Genius'
Special to The Times"Flash of Genius" is largely about how one person's nothing is another person's everything. Take the intermittent windshield wiper, for example. I, for one, had never much thought about who designed it, where it came from or whether there was a story...Tags: Greg Kinnear, Movies, Invention and Innovation, Ford, Dermot Mulroney
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Movie review: Flash of Genius -- 3 out of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticFlash of Genius is a film biography that lacks the flash of inspiration, the sting of wit, the pangs of pathos. The story of the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper isn't a bad film. But producer-turned-director Marc Abraham, and the...Tags: Jeff Bridges, Ford Motor Co., Greg Kinnear, Movies, Invention and Innovation
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'The Human Camera' Draws London; The Dog Whisperer Helps Out 'Bones'
Stephen Wiltshire became a sensation at 12, when he showed he could draw complicated buildings with photographic detail from memory. The documentary "The Human Camera" (BBC America, 9 p.m.) checks in with the adult Wiltshire, who is autistic and has...Tags: Craig Ferguson, George Clinton, Illinois, Tennessee, America's Next Top Model (tv program)
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Book and author events
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Christie Mellor The author of "Were You Raised by Wolves?" will present and sign her new book. Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 4 p.m. Free. (310) 659-3110.
Chuck Palahniuk The author will sign copies of his novels...Tags: Beverly Hills, Angel (tv program), Paul Auster, Books, Colorado
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