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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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Road sign for the GOP: Keep right
By now you've probably heard: The GOP is becoming too regional, too white, too old to compete at a national level. Democrats look like a merging of the cast of "Rent" and Up With People, while Republicans look like diehard fans of "Matlock" and "Murder,...Tags: Heads of State, Sociology, State Budgets, Executive Branch, Public Finance
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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: Malcolm Johnson, Doug Brown, Harold Pinter, New York, Madonna
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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: Movies, Edward Albee, New York, Nathan Lane, David Mamet
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A holiday season film feast
-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: "The Tale of Despereaux": In Sunday's Calendar section, the Holiday Movie Sneaks entry for the upcoming "The Tale of Despereaux" listed only one of the animated film's directors, Sam Fell. Robert Stevenhagen co-...Tags: Emma Watson, Ethan Hawke, Alan Rickman, David Frost, Muddy Waters
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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: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Automotive Equipment, Ford Motor Co., Movies, Dermot Mulroney
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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: AIDS, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Awards and Prizes, Ronald Reagan, Diseases
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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: Roger Moore, Invention and Innovation, Movies, Greg Kinnear
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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, Automotive Equipment, Ford Motor Co., Universal Orlando, Roger Moore
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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: Invention and Innovation, Movies, Vehicles, Greg Kinnear, 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: Charles Dickens, Invention and Innovation, Movies, Bennett Miller, 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, Automotive Equipment, Ford Motor Co., Roger Moore, Invention and Innovation
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Wednesday's Talk Shows
The Early Show Sen. Joe Biden. 7 a.m. KCBS 64081 Today National Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Martha on Today; Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights"); Alan Alda ("Flash of Genius"); author Delilah ("Love Matters"). 7 a.m. KNBC 561352 KTLA Morning...Tags: Tyra Banks, Bonnie Hunt, Jon Stewart, Phil McGraw, Barry Sonnenfeld
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