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West Side couple will speak at a fundraiser on their experiences at a Korean War MASH unit that inspired the book, film and TV series.

Creating a satire on your own culture is a doubled-bladed dagger. Satirists seldom become lionized or praised for their efforts as pointing out failures and dangers and the ridiculous presence of deluded emperors wearing invisible clothes tends to invoke more embarrassment than wisdom or appreciation.

Photo credit: NBC Universal, Inc. From left: Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer in "30 Rock" THE SHOW "30 Rock," WNBC/4, 9:30 Thursday night REASON TO WATCH Fourth season begins.

REASON TO WATCH: Fourth season begins. CATCHING UP: Desperately seeking his birth dad, Jack Donaghy had finally landed on a semi-likely suspect who was teaching at Bennington College and was working on a three-volume biography of Jimmy Carter titled "From Peanut to President." But Milton Green also needed a new kidney, and, reluctant to parcel out ...

Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor has embarked on a major fund-raising campaign aimed at getting back in the black after the theater's finances were hit hard by the economic recession, and the first potential life preserver has been offered by an anonymous donor who has pledged a $250,000 challenge grant.

Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda face off in a presidential debate in a 2005 episode of "The West Wing." In one episode in 2005, the Democratic presidential nominee, played by Jimmy Smits , admitted in a debate that he was not especially happy with the health care plan he had proposed.

How many times have you gone through old photographs and asked the question, "that's me?" How could a dreamy eyed youngster, sunning on a Lake Michigan pier, be the same person as this crotchety elder? It happens.

Comedy writer Larry Gelbart passed away from cancer this past friday at his home in Beverly Hills.

Artist: Alda, Alan Alan Alda, fresh off his guest stint on 30 Rock , serves as host of the PBS series The Human Spark, which is set to debut Nov.

Globe/Roger Nomer Participants already registered for 'Vettes in the Midwest: Kicking It on Route 66' are coming from as far away as Venice, Fla., according to Bruce Layman, event organizer.

Globe/Roger Nomer Participants already registered for 'Vettes in the Midwest: Kicking It on Route 66' are coming from as far away as Venice, Fla., according to Bruce Layman, event organizer.

Where does realism end and prognostication begin? 10 years ago, The West Wing premiered, starring Bradley Whitford as a DC insider based on Rahm Emanuel.A A Whitford's character, Josh Lyman, eventually became chief of staff to the first member of a racial minority to become President , who defeated a veteran, moderate RepublicanA A senator from the ...

Where does realism end and prognostication begin? 10 years ago, The West Wing premiered, starring Bradley Whitford as a DC insider based on Rahm Emanuel.A A Whitford's character, Josh Lyman, eventually became chief of staff to the first member of a racial minority to become President , who defeated a veteran, moderate RepublicanA A senator from the ...

Isna TMt it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Dona TMt get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesna TMt love Alan Alda? But therea TMs absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin's rule.

"Alan Alda called me 'the Communist,'" Mike Farrell says, and laughs. "I was the most overtly involved in politics of anyone in the cast, but we all felt the same way." Farrell is sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Portland, sipping a smoothie and talking about two of his favorite subjects, "MASH" and politics.

George: Did you know we've made love 113 times? Doris: What? George: I figured that out on my Bowmar calculator.

There's nothing like a sneak peek of tomorrow's 30 Rock finale to get us through humpday! Excited about the celebrity guest trifecta of Elvis Costello , Mary J. Blige and Clay Aiken ! Not to mention the return of Alan Alda 's character, as Jack Donaghy 's long lost biological Bennington professor father in need of a kidney transplant.

The Neil Patrick Harris-hosted TV Land Awards aired last night, and the show was... well, it was too damn long, is what it was! Almost two and a half hours? I'm not saying there weren't some entertaining moments in there, but overall the thing was brutal, I don't care how fierce Katey Sagal looked .

The abstinence of TV Turnoff Week ends with the annual celebration of the tube that is the TV Land Awards .

Four County Players, Central Virginia's longest running community theater, announces its spring production, "Same Time, Next Year." The play, written by Bernard Slade, tells the story of a couple who meet by chance at a California seaside cottage and spend one weekend together every year for more than 20 years.