THE SOUND THAT STOPPED TIME FOR THE MEN OF THE 4077TH
The afternoon sun was leaning low over the hills of Malibu, casting long, golden shadows that looked almost exactly like the ones from forty years ago. Mike Farrell…
GARY BURGHOFF SHARES THE HILARIOUS REASON THE MASH CAST STOPPED FILMING
I was sitting on a plastic chair at one of those big fan conventions in California. The room was packed with people wearing olive drab t-shirts and hats…
THE SCRIPT SAID GOODBYE BUT THEIR HEARTS REFUSED TO LEAVE
The restaurant was too quiet for a Saturday afternoon. Loretta sat across from David, watching the way the sunlight caught the silver in his hair. They hadn’t seen…
THE KID WHO NEVER GREW UP… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS FOUND IN NATURE
The heat in the Malibu Creek State Park was often unforgiving. For years, the man in the oversized olive-drab cap stood in the dust of a simulated Korea,…
GARY BURGHOFF PUT THE HEADSET ON… AND THE ROOM WENT SILENT.
The room was tucked away in a quiet corner of a museum, far from the bright lights of a Hollywood soundstage. It smelled of old paper and the…
THE NIGHT HARRY MORGAN BROKE THE ENTIRE MASH PRODUCTION APART
I was sitting in a small, soundproof booth in New York recently, recording an episode for my podcast, Clear+Vivid. The host across from me asked a question I…
THEY CALLED IT A SCRIPTED ENDING… JAMIE FARR KNEW BETTER.
Loretta Swit sat across from Jamie Farr, the California sun catching the silver in their hair. They weren’t in Korea anymore, and the Malibu ranch was long gone,…
THE WORLD’S MOST POMPOUS ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN SILENCE
In the late 1970s, the set of MAS*H was a place of high energy and rapid-fire wit. Into this world stepped a man who seemed to embody the…
JAMIE FARR REVEALS THE HILARIOUS WARDROBE DISASTER THAT HALTED MASH FILMING
Interviewer: Jamie, we are sitting here decades after the 4077th packed up its tents, and yet, the first thing anyone wants to talk about is the wardrobe. Do…
GARY BURGHOFF LEFT THE SET… BUT RADAR O’REILLY NEVER REALLY DID.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only happens when two people have known each other for half a century. Gary sat across from Loretta,…