Unlike the CIA Middle East division chief he plays, Patinkin is a talkative sort A word of advice: Don’t strike up a conversation with Mandy Patinkin ... once got from Gene Kelly.

Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. In a brightly lit room in Mandy Patinkin’s ­Upper West Side apartment, the actor and his 26-year-old son, Gideon, are singing ...