THE SCREEN’S MOST PIOUS PRIEST… BUT HIS HARDEST PRAYER WAS PRIVATE
The dusty hills of Malibu Creek State Park often felt a world away from the reality of 1970s Los Angeles. On the set of the most popular show…
THE SOUND WAS JUST A CUE… UNTIL IT STOPPED THE WORLD.
The sun over the Santa Monica Mountains has a way of bleaching the color out of everything it touches. It is the kind of heat that doesn’t just…
THE MAN WHO SPENT ELEVEN YEARS TRYING TO LEAVE… CHOSE TO STAY.
Jamie and Loretta were sitting in the back of a dimly lit room, tucked away from the flashbulbs and the repetitive questions of the reporters. It had been…
THE DAY THE GIANT BIRD SUIT DECLARED WAR ON THE SURGERY TENT
I remember sitting on that stage at the collectors’ convention a few years back, looking out at a sea of faces that still, after all these decades, looked…
THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN THE SILENCE
The fog off the coast of Newport, Oregon, has a way of swallowing everything whole. It rolls in from the Pacific, thick and grey, turning the jagged cliffs…
THE JEEP WAS RUSTING IN THE SUN… UNTIL MIKE STEPPED INSIDE.
The California sun was hitting the metal just right, casting a long, jagged shadow across the gravel. It was a shade of olive drab that shouldn’t have meant…
THE DAY A REAL GENERAL MET KLINGER IN A WEDDING DRESS
Host: “Jamie, we’ve all seen the highlights and the blooper reels, but I’ve always wondered about the moments that didn’t make the cut. Was there ever a time…
THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ACTING UNTIL THE CAMERAS STOPPED MOVING
Loretta Swit still has that look in her eyes. It’s the kind of look that tells you she isn’t just sitting in a quiet restaurant in Los Angeles,…
THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SOLITARY SYMPHONY
The world knew him as the man who looked down his nose at everyone. In the frantic, dusty world of a mobile army surgical hospital, he was the…
THE SOUND IN THE HILLS MADE JAMIE FARR STOP BREATHING
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon, the kind where the heat of the day…