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IN OUR S6TH YEARI — DALLAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2002, TEXAS JEWISH POST
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Chatting with David Alan Base he
1. Do you have any sisters and, if so,
what did you learn from them?
A. I have one older sister — Fran -and
I’ve learned several things from my sister.
Perhaps least importantly, I learned how to
bake, which is an important guy skill! Per-
haps most importantly, I learned about
expressing my emotions from my sister.
2. Your character, Steven Keats, offers
the male perspective on “Three Sisters.”
How is the guy’s perspective different from
the female perspective?
A. There needs to be a guy’s point of
view on a show called “Three Sisters!”
The clich, answer would be the female
perspective is about shoe shopping and
hair care products, and the guy’s perspective is about
football and carpentry. What’s great about the show is it
manages to present real female perspectives about love
and relationships and family and sometimes jealousy.
By Mara Dresner
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — West Hartford native David Alan Basche
currently stars on NBC’s comedy, “Three Sisters.”
The son of Joyce and the late Malcolm Basche of Bloomfield, he got his start
playing Tom Sawyer in his sixth grade musical.
Basche starred in the off-Broadway hit, “Snakebit” and performed for more than
a year with Eli Wallach in the original production of the two-character play,
“Visiting Mr. Green.”
He starred on the comedy series, “Oh Grow Up,” and has guest-starred on “Ed,”
“Law & Order,” and Lifetime’s “The Division.” He has also appeared on the
daytime dramas, “As the World Turns,” “Guiding Light,” and “All my Children.”
Basche lives in Los Angeles and New York with his wife, actress Alysia Reiner.
He will next be seen in the independent film “Full Frontal,” directed by Steven
Soderbergh, scheduled for a March release.
and film. Plus, the clothes are really, really nice!
5. What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A. Ben & Jerry’s Ooey Gooey Cake. It’s vanilla ice
cream with hunks of sponge cake, which they somehow
and I think the show also presents the male perspective manage to get soggy, plus caramel and maybe some other
of concern, caring, and communication, and still football
and carpentry!
3. What do you miss most about Connecticut?
A. My mom....she lives in Bloomfield and 1 don’t see
her as much as I like. (Oy!)
4. What did you learn from appearing on soap operas?
A. The world of soap operas happens very quickly and
for me, that was great training for television, in general,
stuff -I sort of go into a different state of consciousness
when I eat it.
6. Your character in the play “Visiting Mr. Green”
almost mows down Mr. Green with his car. Are you a
safe driver?
A. I am not as safe a driver as I tell my wife to be! I’m
trying to learn to be a more defensive driver, which in Los
Angeles is not easy to do.
7. What stage role have you always want-
ed to play?
A. There’s a lot of them. I would start
with Shakespeare and say Hamlet. I’m
getting old enough to play Shakespeare’s
Richards, and some day, of course, Lear.
Oddly enough, I’d love to do “Three Sis-
ters,” the Chekhov one.
8. What was your favorite sitcom grow-
ing up?
A. “Get Smart”. “Cheers” is a good one,
too.
9. Who’s been a big influence on you
professionally?
A. How about we say most recently. I’ve
been influenced by the amazing work I’ve
seen in film by Russell Crowe in “The Insider” and “A
Beautiful Mind,” which is a spectacular film. Also, Ed
Harris, Denzel Washington, and I have to say, George
Clooney — People say I look like him a little and I think
that’s a good thing.
10. Are you superstitious?
A. Slightly. I won’t say the name of that Scottish play
anywhere near a theater.
I don’t like to walk under ladders — but that’s because
something actually fell and hit me once. That’s about as
far as it goes.
The Connecticut Jewish Ledger contributed this arti-
cle.
Documentary Tells Gripping Story of Doomed Ship of Jewish Refugees
By Tom Tugend
The story of the ill-fated ship, and the machinations of Turks and set adrift.
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LOS ANGELES On Dec 12, 1941, some 769 half a dozen nations that bore responsibility for the On Feb. 24,1942, a single torpedo sunk the Struma. All
desperate Romanian Jews crammed into a rasty bucket tragedy, has been captured in a gripping documentary, but one man were killed or drowned in the icy water. It
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of a ship at the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta.
They had sold their last possessions to escape war-tom
Europe on the ship, called the Struma, in hopes of making
it to Palestine.
io raicsunc. the passengers confined aboard under rapidly deteriorat-
Just after leaving port, however, the Struma’s engines ing conditions. The Turkish government didn’t want to
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The ship was held for 70 days in Istanbul’s harbor, with submarine under orders to sink all neutral ships on sight
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ding rings to pay for repairs. As the ship moved toward Jews through the Straits of Bosporus to the Mediterra-
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the Turkish coast, the engines failed again and it was
towed to Istanbul.
Thus began the war’s lesser known voyage of the
damned, which ended in the death of all but one of the
passengers and crew.
Though the sinking represented the largest loss of life
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Palestine.
While the passengers posted “Help Us” banners, the
disabled ship was towed back to the Black Sea by the
One is British computer programmer Greg Buxton,
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Pennl should be a father or not," given
his emotional disability. That saves the
movie from sentimentality.”
There is a sentimental sidebar to this
story of love among the less emotionally
developed. The picture was made with
research assistance from LA. Goal, a non-
profit organization that helps develop-
mentally disabled adults, including some
20,000 who are parents.
Of course, says Herskovitz kiddingly.
as a kid he thought all parents were emo-
tional aliens. But it's amazing, he says now,
how smarter his folks became with each
year he aged.
Closing in on 50, he does so not with
a noose but a nose for the smell of suc-
cess. Congratulations, he wants to say to
those people he once viewed as over the
hill; someone’s been lamping the soil now
that he's caught up to them. You see,
they’ve all reached a level playing field.
“It’s easier when you’re older to look
at older people and swear that we’re all
the same soul," says Herskovitz.
In a way. he and Zwick are soul mates
who have sustained a professional and pri-
vate friendship since college. And like
those who have tumbled and teetered in
true marriages — where “Give me my
due” has replaced “I do!” — the produc-
tion partners and buddies nip conflict in
the bud, facing down any possible dis-
agreements knowing they’re wedded to
one thing.
With “I Am Sam," the filmmaker is
what he says he is.
“You have to be passionate about what
you do," vows Herskovitz. “You have to
care. And we do."
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