The Last of the Mohicans book, film and television franchise, the character Hawkeye Pierce is given his nickname by his father, after Hawk-eye from "The Last of the Mohicans". A main character in the original and subsequent film adaptation, Hawkeye, as portrayed by Alan Alda, is the central character in the long-running TV series. A number of films have been based on the lengthy book, making various cuts, compressions, and changes. The American adaptations include: The 1920 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. According to the director Michael Mann,
The Powers That Be (TV series) the actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt took a role in "3rd Rock from the Sun", Robin Bartlett played a recurring part on "Mad About You", Peter MacNicol would soon reach fame with a similar eccentric character (as John Cage) in FOX's "Ally McBeal", and David Hyde Pierce was chosen for his role as Niles Crane in the series "Frasier" partly on the basis of his work in this program. Holland Taylor also went on to greater sitcom stardom later in the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men". The Powers That Be (TV series) The Powers That Be is an American sitcom