TV’S MOST ELITE ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
He was known for a very specific kind of haughtiness. When he walked onto the set of the 4077th, he brought a level of Shakespearean gravitas that the…
THEY THOUGHT THE DUST WAS JUST COSTUME. THEY WERE WRONG.
The sun over the Malibu hills has a way of bleaching the color out of everything. It turns the green of the brush into a dusty, tired gold….
THE TIME JAMIE FARR NEARLY LEVELED THE MASH SET IN HIGH HEELS
It is funny how a single sound can transport you back forty or fifty years in an instant. I was sitting on a plastic chair at a fan…
THEY THOUGHT MARGARET HOULIHAN WAS TOUGH UNTIL ONE NIGHT IN 1976
The patio in Malibu was quiet, the kind of quiet you only find when the Pacific Ocean is breathing just a few hundred yards away. Loretta sat with…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER’S DRESS FINALLY DECIDED TO QUIT THE SHOW
The interviewer leans forward, smiling, and quotes a line that has followed Jamie Farr for over fifty years. “I’m bucking for a Section 8, Colonel.” Jamie lets out…
THE SMELL OF DUSTY CANVAS BROUGHT THE 4077TH BACK TO LIFE
The sun was setting over the hills of Malibu, casting long, orange shadows that looked exactly like the summer of 1978. Mike Farrell stood next to Jamie Farr,…
THE WORLD’S ETERNAL KID… BUT HE NEEDED TO GROW UP ALONE
He was the most recognizable corporal in history. For seven years, the world saw him as the innocent heart of a bloody war. He was the one who…
LORETTA SWIT WALKED BACK INTO THE DUST AND FINALLY UNDERSTOOD RADAR
The dry heat of the Malibu canyon doesn’t change. Even after forty years, the air still tastes like sagebrush and fine, golden dust. Loretta Swit stood at the…
THE UNFORGETTABLE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION THAT HALTED PRODUCTION AT THE FORTY-SEVENTY-SEVENTH
I was sitting on a plastic chair at a fan convention a few years ago, the kind where the fluorescent lights are a bit too bright and the…
THE FINALE GOODBYE WASN’T ACTING… IT WAS A REAL FAMILY BREAKING APART.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the Malibu hills, casting long, amber shadows across the dusty canyon floor that had served as our home for eleven years….