Alan Alda was one of Hollywood’s first prominent male feminists. He campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment, contributed to the star-studded gender-equality album Free to Be … You and Me—that’s him and the project’s originator, Marlo Thomas, narrating the story of Atalanta, a retold Greek myth in which a legendary huntress challenges a male suitor to a footrace and, in this version, crosses the finish line alongside him—and spoke out on what were then called women’s issues so frequently that the Boston Globe dubbed him “the quintessential Honorary Woman.” But Alda’s 1981 movie The Four Seasons, a bittersweet comedy about midlife marital crises which he wrote, directed, and stars in—and which has now been remade into a new Netflix miniseries—is run through with a pronounced sour streak that, at least with four-plus decades of hindsight, feels a lot like misogyny.
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