| MATTHEW LYNCH,
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Who among us hasn’t fantasized about a term or two as president of the United States? It’s probably a pretty common daydream, especially in Silicon Valley—but one that takes on a different dimension entirely when you’re the overlord of an industry-leading AI concern. Author Keach Hagey, in an excerpt from her new biography of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, The Optimist, details Altman’s alleged flirtations with a possible run for office and what it says about the most powerful man in artificial intelligence. (Altman denied having such dreams and flirtations, for what it’s worth.) We can’t say with any certainty that legendary actor Alan Alda has ever fancied himself a spin in the Oval Office, but he has played the president once, in a Michael Moore movie, and a presidential candidate in the latter days of The West Wing. Alda, now 89 and living with Parkinson’s disease, speaks to contributor Jessica Shaw about his life and a career that has often showcased a certain brand of decency that’s in short supply onscreen and in public life these days. Finally, on this sunny spring day in New York, we’ll close out our intro with this: Marjorie Taylor Greene is potentially eyeing a Senate run. What was that we were saying about the national supply of decency? |
Looking back, Alan Alda says he isn’t “proud” of his career, as much as he’s grateful he’s gotten to take the ride, which sounds exactly like something Alan Alda would say. For more than six decades now, he’s been a singular star: humble, funny, compassionate, bracingly smart, and a pivotal part of some of the most enduring entertainment ever. (If you didn’t watch the M*A*S*H finale in 1983, you must not have been alive in 1983.) |
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Alda doesn’t give many interviews these days, but VF contributor Jessica Shaw has a heartfelt exclusive with him on the occasion of Tina Fey’s Netflix update of his ’80s hit romantic comedy The Four Seasons. The actor talks openly about his most beloved work, the way Parkinson’s has transformed his life, and more—and he’s still exactly the wry, curious man you always hoped he would be. Asked what the strangest question he’s ever been asked is, he doesn’t hesitate: “I was at a resort hotel, and a boy, about six years old, looked up at me for a long time and said, ‘How did you get out of the TV?’”
—Jeff Giles, executive Hollywood editor |
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The prospect of an MTG run should be disconcerting to everyone. |
“Each time I go to the Met, I am a character. My mind works very cinematically in that way, and so I try to center everything around, Who is my character for Met? How does my character need to get in the zone?” shared the actor and musician. |
“As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognize new forms of storytelling,” said Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne in a press release. |
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