Alan Alda will sit down for an in-depth conversation about his role in M*A*S*H at the Museum of the Moving Image
ICONIC CHARACTERS OF COMEDY: A CONVERSATION WITH ALAN ALDA MODERATED BY JEFF GREENFIELD
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Ave. at 36th St., Astoria
Tuesday, October 15, $25, 7:00
718-777-6800
www.movingimage.us
www.comedyhalloffame.com
From 1972 to 1983, Larry Gelbart’s M*A*S*H television series ran on CBS, garnering fourteen Emmys as it explored the nature of war, politics, and the military industrial complex through the daily life of the men and women of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. The show’s centerpiece was Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, played by Alan Alda, taking on the role originally played by Donald Sutherland in Robert Altman’s Oscar-nominated 1970 film. Surrounded by such characters as Hot Lips Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Max Klinger (Jamie Farr), Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), Frank “Ferret Face” Burns (Larry Linville), B. J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell), Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers), Radar O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff), and Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), expert surgeon Pierce regularly took on the establishment, fighting against absurd rules and regulations while trying to save lives — and score with as many nurses as possible. On October 15, Alda, who won five Emmys for M*A*S*H — three for acting, one for writing, and one for directing — will sit down with moderator Jeff Greenfield at the Museum of the Moving Image for “The Rationalist: Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H,” an in-depth conversation copresented with the Comedy Hall of Fame, the first installment of the new series “Iconic Characters of Comedy.”