JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE CHAOTIC DAY THE WARDROBE FINALLY REBELLED
It was one of those humid Saturday mornings at a fan convention in Chicago. The room was packed with people wearing olive drab and surgical scrubs. I was…
THE ARISTOCRATIC SURGEON… BUT HE SPENT DECADES HIDING HIS TRUTH
Every time the camera rolled on the set of the 4077th, the man we knew as Charles Emerson Winchester III stepped into a world of unyielding confidence. He…
TELEVISION’S PERPETUAL CHILD… BUT THE MAN WAS SUFFOCATING
Gary Burghoff was thirty-something years old, but to tens of millions of people, he was forever eighteen. He was the boy who could hear the choppers before they…
ALAN ALDA RECALLS THE ABSURD O.R. BLOOPER THAT HALTED PRODUCTION
I was sitting in a studio recently, recording an episode of my podcast, and I had this incredibly talented younger actor across from me. He was asking about…
THE SOUND THAT STOPPED JAMIE FARR IN HIS TRACKS YEARS LATER
The sun was beating down on the dry, golden hills of Malibu Creek State Park, exactly the way it used to forty years ago. Jamie Farr stood near…
THE ARROGANT SURGEON… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A QUIET SYMPHONY
For nine seasons, the world knew him as the pinnacle of blue-blooded arrogance. He was the man who brought Mozart and Brahms to the mud-soaked trenches of Korea….
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A CAR UNTIL THE ENGINE STARTED.
The air in the restoration garage smelled of cold grease, old canvas, and the kind of dust that only settles after forty years of silence. Jamie Farr stood…
THE SIGN IN THE DIRT MEANT MORE THAN HAWKEYE KNEW
It started with a simple question from a fan at a small charity gala in Los Angeles. Mike Farrell was standing near the edge of the stage, adjusting…
TV’S MOST ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HE LIVED IN TOTAL SILENCE
The world knew him as the man who brought a touch of the Boston elite to the mud-soaked tents of Korea. When David Ogden Stiers first stepped onto…
LORETTA SWIT HEARD THE CHOPPER… AND SUDDENLY GARY WAS RADAR AGAIN.
Loretta Swit and Gary Burghoff were sitting on a quiet patio in Malibu, miles away from the cameras and the fake blood of the 4077th. The sun was…