THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HE LIVED A LIFETIME IN THE SHADOWS
Every week for six years, millions of people watched a man who seemed to have everything figured out. He was the embodiment of upper-crust New England breeding, a…
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER NEVER TOLD THE CAST WHY THAT SCENE HURT.
Loretta Swit remembers the smell of the Stage 9 mud better than almost anything else. It was a thick, cloying mix of damp earth, the heavy scent of…
A LUNCH GONE SILENT: THE MOMENT THE 4077TH CAME RUSHING BACK.
The patio in Pasadena was quiet, the kind of afternoon where the only sound should have been the clink of silverware against porcelain. Jamie Farr sat across from…
JAMIE FARR AND THE PINK LACE DISASTER IN THE MALIBU SUN
I was sitting on a stage recently for a retrospective, and a fan in the front row stood up. He didn’t ask about the series finale or the…
TV’S MOST FAMOUS CORPORAL… BUT HIS HAND HELD A HIDDEN TRUTH
The dusty hills of Malibu often stood in for the mountains of South Korea, but for the man wearing the oversized olive-drab cap, the heat was very real….
THE O.R. WENT COMPLETELY SILENT WHEN BILL CHRISTOPHER FINALLY SPOKE
Loretta Swit sat on her patio, the California sun catching the silver in her hair. Across from her sat William Christopher, the man the world knew as Father…
THE CHOPPERS NEVER STOPPED IN HIS HEAD. THEN JAMIE HEARD IT AGAIN.
The dust in Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t just sit on the ground. It hangs in the air like a ghost that refuses to leave, coating everything in…
THE DAY THE SALAMI TOOK OVER THE MAS*H SET
I was sitting on a stage in North Hollywood not too long ago, doing one of those Q&A sessions for a group of young, aspiring actors who looked…
THE ARISTOCRATIC DOCTOR EVERYONE KNEW… BUT HE LIVED IN THE SHADOWS
The 4077th was a place of noise. The clatter of helicopters, the shouting in the OR, the constant banter of a cast that had become a family. But…
THE DAY ONE-TAKE HARRY MORGAN FINALLY MET HIS MATCH IN SURGERY
We were all sitting there on that stage for the thirtieth anniversary, looking out at a sea of fans who had stuck with us for decades. It was…