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Post by petrolino on Feb 1, 2020 0:48:09 GMT
Alan Alda tends to fluctuate and facilitate, drifting between theatrical mediums. He's around the same age as his good friend Woody Allen whom he's been known to lunch with. His moments on the stage, the small screen and the big screen are vast, but he has a quiet way about him. Easy to forget now he was a heartthrob actor in his day.
What do you think are some of Alan Alda's best moments?
Thanks.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 1, 2020 18:09:46 GMT
Wish I had stayed awake and watched The Mephisto Waltz to the end, Maybe is was a good chiller movie...
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Post by petrolino on Feb 1, 2020 18:21:54 GMT
Wish I had stayed awake and watched T he Mephisto Waltz to the end, Maybe is was a good chiller movie... It's a good one. A good example of the eerie chillers they made in America after the success of 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968).
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 1, 2020 21:48:43 GMT
He would get on my nerves when he channeled Groucho Marx on the MASH series. Otherwise, his dialogue delivery was very spontaneous and natural.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 2, 2020 4:20:49 GMT
In his older years, I liked him a lot in The Aviator. A conniving and corrupt congressman.
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Post by millar70 on Feb 2, 2020 10:00:06 GMT
MASH will always be my favorite recollection of Alan Alda, but I always did like The Four Seasons, probably his best film as a director. One of those movies I discovered on HBO back in the 80's and still enjoy whenever I come across it.
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Post by amyghost on Feb 2, 2020 13:30:12 GMT
Always a favorite. Two of his films that are personal faves are The Seduction of Joe Tynan, which I felt was sadly underrated, and the campy classic The Moonshine War.
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 2, 2020 15:18:51 GMT
I admire him as an actor and as a man who has lived an exceptional life, doing good however he can. There are so many examples of his fine work, but one thing in particular comes to mind when I think of the question in the terms in which you present it: his short run on the series ER portraying a doctor with Alzheimer's. It was a deeply touching character and a superb enactment of the disease.
I'll never forget the scene where he quotes the poem by Wendell Berry, "In the Peace of Wild Things," and attributes it to William Blake (though that may have been done because more people would recognize Blake than Berry, though, if so, that was a disservice to Berry). In any case, it was an exceptionally beautiful, heartbreaking scene that I'll remember forever. And here's the poem:
“The Peace of Wild Things”
Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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