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…
GARY BURGHOFF LEFT THE SET… BUT RADAR NEVER TRULY DEPARTED.
The air in the room was still, the kind of heavy quiet that only happens when two people who have known each other for fifty years finally stop…
THE DAY THE SURGERY FAILED BECAUSE OF A LOUD SNORING SOLDIER
I was sitting in a small, cramped theater in New York a few years ago for a retrospective on television history. There was a young actor in the…
THE TV DOCTOR WHO HAD EVERY ANSWER… BUT HE HID ONE TRUTH
The voice was unmistakable. It was a rich, resonant instrument that felt like it belonged in a cathedral rather than a dusty surgical tent in Korea. When David…