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Born in New York City in 1936, Alan Alda spent his early years traveling by train to theaters across the country with his father, Robert, a performer in vaudeville and burlesque shows. In fact, Alda first appeared on stage as a baby in burlesque sketches. After graduating from Fordham University, Alda made his Broadway debut in 1959 and received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in the musical The Apple Tree in 1966. Alda’s film career took flight following his portrayal of writer George Plimpton in the 1968 football comedy Paper Lion. His articulate and intelligent style led to appearances as a panelist on TV programs such as What’s My Line? and I’ve Got a Secret in the early 1970s. In 1972, Alda auditioned for the role of Hawkeye Pierce in the TV adaptation of the 1970 film M*A*S*H. His portrayal of the irreverent and quick-witted battlefield surgeon earned Alda five Emmy Awards and 21 nominations. The beloved series’ 1983 finale still stands as the most-watched episode of any broadcast television series in history. He remains the only person to receive Emmys for acting, writing, and directing for the same series and was inducted
into the Television Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the medium. While working on M*A*S*H, Alda also appeared in a number of well-known films, including Neil Simon’s California Suite (1978) and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979). After M*A*S*H, Alda focused almost exclusively on movie roles, appearing in comedies such as Sweet Liberty (1986), the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), and the new Steven Spielbergdirected film, Bridge of Spies (2015). Already an accomplished screenwriter, Alda published his first memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I’ve Learned, in 2005. He holds the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar (for The Aviator), a Tony (for Glengarry Glen Ross), an Emmy (for The West Wing), and becoming a bestselling author all in the same year. In 2007, he released his second book, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. For most, this would be an exceptionally full career. But for more than 20 years, Alan Alda has also worked to help broaden the public’s understanding of science. He hosted the awardwinning PBS series Scientific American Frontiers for 11 years, interviewing hundreds of scientists around the world, and in 2006, he received the National Science Board’s Public Service Award. In 2009, he helped found the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York, where as a visiting professor, he leads workshops training scientists to communicate more effectively. The Center has grown to include affiliated programs at ten other universities across the country. The very model of a Renaissance man, the inimitable Alan Alda says, “I’ll continue to work until well after I’m dead.”
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In 1991, The Butterbean Jazz Quartet was formed by Zip Irvin, John Winn, and Jim Dudley. They began a weekly Sunday evening gig at Bottoms Up Pizza; that gig has become a mainstay in Richmond’s historic Shockoe Bottom. Over the years, members of the quartet have changed. The current lineup is Lee Covington (piano), Terri Simpson (vocals), Rusty Farmer (acoustic bass), and Keith Willingham (drums). Sitting in tonight for Rusty Farmer is Brian Cruse. The Butterbean Jazz Quartet specializes in
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Alan Alda Career Highlights Television The Blacklist (2013–2014) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series 30 Rock (2009–2010) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series The West Wing (2004–2006) • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series • Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series • Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series • Nominated – Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama Club Land (2001) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie • Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie ER (1999) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Scientific American Frontiers (1993–2007) And the Band Played On (1993) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie M*A*S*H (1972–1983) • Six Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy • Five People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Male Television Performer • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series • Two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series • Eleven Nominations – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy • Nine Nominations – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
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Left: 1960s promotional photo. Right: The cast of M*A*S*H from Season 2, 1974 (clockwise from left): Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers, Gary Burghoff, McLean Stevenson, and Alan Alda
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Film Bridge of Spies (2015) The Longest Ride (2015) The Aviator (2004) • Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor • Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role • Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture What Women Want (2000) The Object of My Affection (1998) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) • National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor • Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Four Seasons (1981) • Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) California Suite (1978) Same Time, Next Year (1978) • Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Mephisto Waltz (1971) The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) Paper Lion (1968) • Nominated – Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor Gone Are the Days! (1963) Stage Love Letters (2014) Glengarry Glen Ross (2005) • Nominated – Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Jake’s Women (1992) • Nominated –Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play The Apple Tree (1966–67) • Nominated – Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical Books Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (2006) Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (2007) Other Accolades • Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University (2015) • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) • Induction into the Television Hall of Fame (1994) This list is greatly abridged for space. For more information, visit www.alanalda.com.
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• Eleven Nominations – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series • Three Nominations – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Kill Me If You Can (1977) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) • Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Route 66 (1963) Naked City (1962) The Phil Silvers Show (1958)
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Alan Alda has had a Alda says, “After lifelong interest in Scientific American Frontiers science. He hosted ended, I could see that several scientific series when scientists were on television, including in conversation, they 11 seasons of Scientific could explain science in American Frontiers from a personal way, both in 1993 to 2005. He called terms of the vocabulary the experience, “the and in their very tone of Alan Alda using an improvisational exercise to teach best thing I ever did voice.There was human scientists how to better speak about their work to nonin front of a camera,” scientists. Photo: Uli Seit for The New York Times interaction. But if they which, for an awarddid not have someone winning actor, writer and director, is noteworthy. like me pulling it out of them in a personal way, He’s also hosted The Human Spark, which there was a tendency to slip into lecture mode. focused on the question of what makes us I thought, wouldn’t it be an interesting idea to human, and most recently, Brains on Trial, an train scientists to be good communicators while investigation into the role brain science plays in we train them to be scientists?” our criminal justice system. He co-chaired the “We use some innovative methods, such as 2009 World Science Festival in New York City, improvisation,” he adds, “not to teach scientists portrayed physicist Richard Feynman in the play to be funny and make things up on the spot, QED, and his play Radiance: The Passion of Marie but to help put them in contact with the person Curie premiered in 2011. across from them.” His love of science and communication The Alan Alda Center for Communicating has earned him numerous honors, including Science is part of the journalism school at the Sagan Award for increasing the public Stony Brook. In addition to classes, the center appreciation of science, and the Scientific American started The Flame Challenge, a contest seeking Lifetime Achievement Award. compelling explanations of seemingly simple After interviewing hundreds of scientists, phenomena. The first year, the question was: Alda became convinced that many researchers “What is a flame?” Alda asked his teacher this have wonderful stories to tell but often need when he was 11, and the answer—“oxidation”— help telling them. That’s why he helped found was his first experience with confusing scientific the Alan Alda Center for Communicating jargon. This year, the question was: “What is Science at Stony Brook University, part of the sleep?” The winners are named at the World State University of New York, where he leads Science Festival in New York City each May. workshops that use improvisational theater techniques to help scientists communicate more For more information about this program, directly and personally. visit: www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org
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