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| Alan Alda, courtesy of mash.wikia.com |
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am because the world could use a few people like that."
Born Alphonse Joseph D'Abruzzo in the Bronx, Alan Alda is best-known for his work on the series M*A*S*H. He won 6 Emmys for his role as Hawkeye Pierce and eventually became producer and creative consultant. His father, Robert, was a famous actor too. When Alan was 7, he contracted polio and was treated with hot wool blankets and muscle stretches (yikes!). He graduated from Fordham in 1956 and married his wife, Arlene Weiss, a year later. His list of TV and film credits is too long to mention, so I will just link them here. He also has appeared in many Broadway shows.
Today's puzzle theme (by Billie Truitt) is not one of my favorites. It's called "Three Chores" that I hate doing:
20A: Parent's morning request (MAKE YOUR BED)
39A: Parent's after-supper request (TAKE OUT THE TRASH)
53A: Parent's before-supper request (SET THE TABLE)
To the left are some Stepford children helping Mom with chores. . . . Chores are supposed to help children learn responsibility, blah, blah, blah. There are even chore charts out there so the duties can be divided between the kids. (insert snorting with laughter here). Growing up, the request for chores from my parents usually turned into a screaming match. When I was in high school, I remember having to clean my room for the cleaning lady (Wait! Isn't that supposed to be her job?). I would come home from school and my room stunk from cigarette smoke. . . . I was neater in college because I was living with others in confined quarters. Now I'm so lucky to to be working during the day so I can trick my house husband into doing everything. I came home yesterday and the carpets were all vacuumed and the floors were all clean. Gotta love him!
It's pouring out but that won't stop me from going to Zumba!
Till tomorrow--
Signing off,
The Puzzlechick
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