Own A Piece Of “M*A*S*H”

Alan Alda is auctioning off the combat boots and dog tags he wore on “M*A*S*H”. The proceeds will go to the Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York. He says, “There’s an old belief among actors that when you put the shoes of the character on, It’s easier to believe you’re the character and I think the boots had that effect on me.” While the dog tags came from the costume department, they had the names of two actual soldiers on them. Alda said, “I saw those names every day. It was an interesting experience to put them on.  I wasn’t dealing with props. I was dealing with something that put me in touch with real people.” Click HERE to check out the auction website.)