8/1/2006
By Alan Aida
For this “M*A*S*H” star, heritage is always in character.
By the time I finished high school, I'd made up my mind what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I wanted to act. I was 16, and I announced it one day to my father, formally. He looked at me without saying anything for a while.
“You don't think you'd like to be a doctor?” he asked.