and meeting them after hours.
Offscreen, Alda still loves wisecracking, but he’s anything but a ladies' man.
Unlike Hawkeye, Alda is anything but commitment-phobic.
A gifted clarinetist, Arlene once played in the Houston Symphony with the legendary Leopold Stokowski as conductor.
She later switched gears and went on to a successful career as an author and photographer.
Together, the couple have three daughters and eight grandchildren (viaArlene Alda’s website).
At the first one, Alda was too tongue-tied to say much.
“We did eat the rum cake off the floor and were inseparable after that,” he recalled.
She had me at Ha."
That memory got more than 100,000 likes and thousands of ferklempt replies.
Anothersummed it upnicely: “We all just want someone to eat floor cake with.”
