LORETTA SAW A SIDE OF COLONEL POTTER NO ONE EXPECTED
The lunch was quiet, the kind of silence that only exists between people who have known each other for forty years. Loretta Swit sat across from Harry Morgan,…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER ALMOST LOST HIS LADY IN THE MUD
You know, people always ask me if I kept the dresses. They think there is a giant walk-in closet in my house filled with sequins and chiffon. I…
TV’S MOST INNOCENT SOLDIER… BUT HIS HEART BELONGED TO THE WILD
The 4077th was a place of noise. There was the constant, rhythmic thumping of helicopter blades, the shouting of orders, and the canned laughter that followed every wisecrack…
THE SOUND OF THE ROTORS STILL MAKES LORETTA SWIT STOP COLD.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is a specific kind of light that only hits the Malibu hills…
THE FINAL SALUTE THAT BROKE THE HEART OF COLONEL POTTER
Loretta Swit still pauses when she hears the distant thump of a helicopter, even decades after the cameras stopped rolling. It’s a ghost of a memory that refuses…
THE ARISTOCRATIC SURGEON ON SCREEN… BUT HE HID A HEARTFELT TRUTH
He was the man who brought Mahler and Mozart to a muddy camp in Korea. To the world, David Ogden Stiers was the personification of high-born dignity. He…
HARRY MORGAN RECALLS THE NIGHT THE MASH CAST LOST THEIR MINDS
You know, people always saw Colonel Potter as this rock-solid, tough-as-nails horse soldier. And I suppose that’s exactly what I wanted them to see when the red light…
THE FINAL HUG IN THE DUST THAT NEVER REALLY ENDED.
The restaurant was quiet, the kind of place where the lighting is soft enough to hide the lines that time carves into a face. Jamie sat across from…
THE MOMENT HARRY MORGAN FINALLY CRACKED AND BROKE THE ENTIRE SET
I was sitting in the studio for an episode of my podcast, Clear+Vivid, and the guest asked me a question I didn’t see coming. They wanted to know…
THE ARROGANT SURGEON… BUT HIS HARDEST ROLE WAS A LIFELONG SILENCE
The world knew him as a man of refined tastes, a lover of Ravel and Mozart who carried himself with a rigid, blue-blooded posture that seemed to look…