The down to earth candour of Hawkeye Pierce of the TV show MASH on an American medical unit in the Korean war is back in the movie "Marraige Story." Alan Alda returns as a principled lawyer in a story about a marraige divorce. The 83 year old actor lets his Parkinson's disease with tremor in the hands show. In real life Alda discovered he had Parkinson's at 83. Alan is also active, very active. He is a psychiatrist in the Showtime series "Ray Donovan." He also teaches at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.
Recently we profiled Mr. Goodenough, a Nobel prize winning scientist who is active in his lab at a New York university 92 years making another effort to rediscover principles behind lithium ion batteries.
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