I'm guessing that since he was quite involved with writing in the M.A.S.H. series it was probably his idea to portray himself as a guy who has a fantastic body. What an effing joke that is! He looks more like a plucked chicken than any sort of desirable man. What an ego! It was hilarious the first time I heard it said, then it just kind of made me feel sorry for him. A good actor? Maybe. A sex symbol? Wishful thinking!
shareI'd love to say everything that was on my mind, to say every lascivious remark that sparks me. But I don't. I never got the impression Alda thought himself as being "hot."
Sometimes guys just try to get by on charm and being funny and confident with who they are. Nothing wrong with that.
And I suspect the REAL Alan Alda is much different than Hawkeye Pierce.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
I always thought he was just making the most of his popularity, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I've heard a lot of bad things about him and how he was supposedly so full of himself, but then, when I watch things like "Sweet Liberty" and even "The Aviator," the roles he plays are not anything like Hawkeye at all, even though Hawkeye was supposed to have evolved to be more like Alan Alda, if that makes any sense.
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He had an interesting role in a Woody Allen film - Crimes and Misdemeanors - where he DID play a pompous jerk, but by the end I got the feeling it was Woody Allen's character's PERCEPTION of him that made him a jerk, not that he really was a jerk. He was successful and WA's long suffering gf (unfortunately, Mia Farrow) was attracted to him, so Woody disliked him. That's how I see it anyway.
I also saw Alda in Paper Lion. He sure seems pretty good at playing a nice guy, so I find it difficult to believe he isn't in real life. He's likely pretty smart, too, and may not suffer fools gladly.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
I thought is role in "Sweet Liberty" was interesting. He was an author and college instructor who had written a book that was being made into a movie. In this movie, he was a real stickler for historical accuracy, so some of his qualities were the exact opposite of his character on Mash.
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You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.