Talk:Alan Arkin

message: Alan Arkin has a major role in this Netflix Original film.https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/the-kominsky-method-netflix-trailer-1202020713/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/arts/television/review-kominsky-method-review-netflix.html I'm not sure which category it belongs in, movie or TV. These categories are expanding and should include cable and premium cable. Where would we have put "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" when it only existed on Crackle. (Now I think the new ones come out on Netflix, but I don't know if they are exclusive.) Anyway, my point is maybe there should only be one category and the venue really doesn't matter.
Since it's episodic, I think I'll put it under TV.
R39525 (talk) 20:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Kominsky Method on Netflix 

message: Wasn't he Dr. Sidney Freeman, the psychologist, in M*A*S*H*? I was going to just add that, but then I wasn't sure. Could anyone confirm this one way or the other?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadowviking (talk • contribs) 02:13, August 29, 2007 (UTC) 
:If you mean the TV series, the actor's name was Allan Arbus .  If you mean the 1970 movie, there was a David Arkin , but he played a different role.  Not hard to see where your confusion came from.  --  JackofOz 02:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Shadowviking 14:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  M*A*S*H* 

message: Heyllo ppl, there is a photograph of him in Yossarian, the role he played in the movie adaptation of the novel Catch-22. So can't we use it here too? and by the way does this qualify as a children's literature??? Elncid (talk) 12:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo & Children's article? 

message: In this article, the birth year of Adam Arkin is stated as 1957. However in the Wikipedia article on Adam Arkin, the year is stated as 1956. In the highly respected reference book "The Film Encyclopedia", 1994 edition, by Ephraim Katz, the year is stated as 1956.216.80.73.204 (talk) 23:49, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year of Adam Arkin, son of Alan Arkin 

message: Isn't the picture a little old? --Diblidabliduu (talk) 14:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main picture from 1975 

message: MOS:SERIAL says  The lead uses the serial comma consistently except for in the opening sentence. I believe the IP who added a comma after "director" in  is applying the Manual of Style correctly. Schazjmd (talk) 15:01, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Schazjmd In this case, I think you're right. There were other cases by the same IP where it was not correct. The article has some comma issues beyond that. —C.Fred (talk) 15:13, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comma in opening sentence 

message: If this: 
then how this: ? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:08, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The filmsite.org ref recognizes that; in the list of "Film Debut Nominees/Winners for Best Actor Oscars", for Arkin, it notes , and similar notes for Ben Kingsley and Geoffrey Rush (both of whom won). But that same ref lists 8 "debut nominees/winners", so our article is off on that point too. Question is, is that source authoritative for calling The Russians... his debut despite the minor role 10 years earlier? Schazjmd (talk) 22:34, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Second Oscar nomination, first major film role. That's not a "debut" in any way I can see. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:23, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It was his first Oscar nomination. But looking at the ref again, I see this time that it calls that list "a sampling", so "one of only six" is wrong on both aspects ― not his debut, and not "only six". Schazjmd (talk) 13:25, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it depends how you look at it. The short film That's Me written by and starring Arkin was nominated. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:32, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? 

message: At this moment (13:49 UTC), only People is reporting that Arkin has died. Given the guidance in WP:Reliable sources/Perennial sources, I am waiting for another source besides people to confirm the news before adding it to the article, even though People is sourcing the statement to Arkin's family. —C.Fred (talk) 13:50, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.tovima.gr/2023/06/30/culture/pethane-o-ithopoios-alan-arkin/ does this work? Death Editor 2 (talk) 13:57, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

text: CNNNYT are now reporting the death as well. Natg 19 (talk) 16:35, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Report of death 

message: There is no mention here of his being a member of the musical group The Tarriers, who had a top ten hit in 1956. There is information about this in the wiki article on The Tarriers. 68.234.76.251 (talk) 22:52, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It was already in the article – see Alan_Arkin#Musical_career.  As they had some success with two hits, I have added details to the lead too. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:10, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tarriers  

message: Should we be seeking consensus about the best photo to have at the start of the article? It's obviously been changing a lot recently. Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 23:34, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A gallery of candidates would help us compare them.  See Talk:Raquel Welch#What image should we choose? for an example. Andrew🐉(talk) 06:32, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

text: One user in particular (an IP editor like myself - but a vandal) keeps changing them and writing aggressive edit summaries (check history page). This has also resulted in photos being deleted from the article as well. I've reported them. Can I also suggest once a photo is chosen here that any of the photos recently deleted from the body of the article be restored? As all the changing of the photos has resulted in some of them being removed and it would be nice to keep them in the article regardless of which photo is chosen as the main photo. Thank you. 2001:BB6:4E52:7D00:8D80:D3C:4CB:CA7D (talk) 09:09, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for all your work - personally I think that B/W photo of Arkin from 1975 is absolutely fine, but I guess that comes from the gut. It makes sense for someone who's had a long career to have a lead photo from the middle and not the end of it, but I'm not aware of any Wikipedia policies about this Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 12:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Does anybody know the correct dates of Arkin's various marriages? Here it says he was married to Barbara Dana until 1994, but in his book "An Improvised Life," he talks about something that happened in 1997 when he was still married to her. Plus, IMDB (I think) says that he divorced her in 1999. In fact, the exact date given is November 2, 1999. But what makes it even weirder is that many sources say that he married Suzanne Newlander in 1996. Does anybody know what's up with these contradictory dates and which are the correct ones? InYourFaceNewYorker (talk) 01:09, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages