TV’S ELITIST INTELLECTUAL… BUT HE LIVED A HUMBLE SECRET LIFE
For six seasons, the world knew him as the embodiment of blue-blooded arrogance. He was the man who played the cello to drown out the commoners and spoke…
THE CAMERAS WERE ROLLING… BUT GARY BURGHOFF WASN’T ACTING ANYMORE.
The restaurant was quiet, the kind of place where the lighting is dim enough to hide the lines on a face but bright enough to see the sparkle…
LORETTA SWIT HEARD THE SOUND. MIKE FARRELL COULDN’T MOVE.
The Malibu sun was beating down just like it used to. They were sitting on a quiet patio, miles away from the old Fox Ranch. Mike Farrell leaned…
THE ARISTOCRAT OF TELEVISION… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SECRET
The world knew the voice before they ever saw the face. It was a rich, resonant baritone that carried the weight of a thousand years of Ivy League…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE CHAOTIC WEDDING DRESS INCIDENT IN THE MUD
I was sitting backstage at a theater in Ohio not too long ago, just waiting to go on for a local talk, and this young actor comes up…
THE CHOPPER BLADES STOPPED SPINNING, BUT THE MEMORY NEVER DID.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Malibu hills, casting long, amber shadows across the dry brush. It was a quiet afternoon, the…
THE DAY THE 4077 FELL SILENT FOR ONE UNEXPECTED REVEAL
Loretta Swit sat across the table from Jamie Farr, the afternoon sun catching the silver in their hair. They weren’t in the mud of Malibu anymore. There were…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER ALMOST TOOK FLIGHT OVER THE MALIBU HILLS
The fluorescent lights of the convention center hummed overhead as I sat at the long table, a stack of glossy photos and a Sharpie in front of me….
LORETTA SWIT TOUCHED THE OLD RADIO… AND THE LAUGHTER STOPPED.
The air in the climate-controlled storage facility was thin and smelled of archival paper and industrial cleaning fluid. It was a far cry from the dusty, sun-baked hills…
THE HAUTIEST ARISTOCRAT ON TELEVISION… BUT HIS HEART SOUGHT SMALL-TOWN SILENCE
For years, the world knew that voice before they even saw the face. It was a rich, mid-Atlantic baritone that seemed to carry the weight of centuries of…