THE SOUND THAT HAUNTED LORETTA SWIT LONG AFTER THE CAMERAS STOPPED
The sun was beginning to dip behind the hills of Malibu, casting long, amber shadows across the terrace where they sat. Loretta Swit leaned back in her chair,…
LORETTA SWIT REMEMBERS THE DAY THE JOKES STOPPED ON SET.
Loretta Swit sat in a small, sun-drenched corner of a quiet restaurant, the kind of place where the noise of the world feels like a distant hum. Across…
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE HILARIOUS NIGHT HARRY MORGAN BROKE THE MASH SET
I was sitting in a quiet studio recently, recording an episode for my podcast, when the guest leaned forward and asked me something I hadn’t really prepared for….
TWO ACTORS SAT IN A RUSTY JEEP AND SUDDENLY STOPPED LAUGHING.
The warehouse smelled like California dust and old oil. Jamie Farr adjusted his cap, his eyes squinting against the late afternoon sun streaming through the high rafters of…
THE MOMENT THE MAS*H FAMILY BROKE ON THAT FINAL DAY
The room was quiet, the kind of silence that only happens when two people have known each other for over half a century. Loretta Swit sat across from…
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…