He also remembers his bout with polio when he was 7. Quick thinking by his mother and a pioneering massage treatment saved him from any lasting damage. The massages were extremely painful. It was a little bit like taking your thumb and bending it back to your elbow. To this day I'm not interested in getting a massage.
People think it's wonderful.
Under the gruff exterior he was even gruffer. He did it after manipulating an image on his computer to see what he might look like partially bald. Just as I'm personally a three-dimensional person, I like to play characters who are like real people. Alda overcame a spider phobia to allow a tarantula to walk on his arm for an episode of Scientific American Frontiers.