La Ronde (play) Monnaie, Brussels in 1993, and subsequently recorded. In his autobiography, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned", Alan Alda says that for the first story he wrote for "M*A*S*H" (an episode titled "The Longjohn Flap"), he borrowed the structure from "La Ronde". "In my version, the object that's passed from couple to couple is a pair of long johns during a cold spell in the Korean winter." These films are based upon "La Ronde" (1897), some without crediting the play or the playwright: La Ronde (play) La Ronde (the original German name is "Reigen") is a controversial
Alan Alda patients being treated for childhood cancer at Saint Jude. Alda and Marlo Thomas had also worked together in the early 1970s on a critically acclaimed children's album entitled "Free to Be You and Me", which featured Alda, Thomas, and a number of other well-known character actors. This project remains one of the earliest public signs of his support of women's rights. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned". Among other stories, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in La Serena, Chile, for his PBS show