THE SOUND OF THE BLADES STILL WHISPERS TO THE BOY FROM IOWA
Gary and Jamie stood on the edge of a private tarmac, squinting against the harsh glare of a California afternoon. It had been decades since they shared a…
THE TIME THE AMBULANCE VEIL ALMOST ENDED JAMIE FARR
I remember sitting across from a young podcast host a few years ago who looked at me with this genuine curiosity and asked a question I hadn’t heard…
THEY THOUGHT THE CAMERAS WERE JUST FILMING A FINALE. THEY WERE WRONG.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only settles between people who have known each other for forty years. It was a small dinner in…
THE WORLD’S FAVORITE ETERNAL SON… BUT HE WAS DESPERATE TO GROW UP
The world knew him as the boy who could hear the choppers before they even appeared as dots on the horizon. He was the innocent heartbeat of the…
GARY BURGHOFF STEPPED INTO THE JEEP AND SUDDENLY THE WAR RETURNED.
The sun over the Malibu hills still has that same, unforgiving bite it had back in 1972. It is a dry, golden heat that clings to the skin…
THE DAY THE SURGICAL MASK TURNED INTO A COMEDY CRIME SCENE
You know, people always ask if the operating room scenes were as intense to film as they looked on screen. I was recently doing a podcast interview, and…
LORETTA SWIT KEPT A SECRET ABOUT THAT FAMOUS OUTBURST FOR DECADES.
Loretta Swit sat across from Jamie Farr, the California sun catching the silver in their hair. They weren’t in the mess tent anymore. There was no dust, no…
TV’S MOST FAMOUS CORPORAL… BUT THE WILDERNESS WAS HIS ONLY HOME
The set of Stage 9 at 20th Century Fox was a place of controlled chaos. It was loud, dusty, and smelled of stale coffee and tobacco. In the…
THE ONE SOUND THAT STILL MAKES THE MAS*H CAST STOP EVERYTHING
Jamie Farr and Mike Farrell are standing on a dusty ridge in the heart of Malibu Creek State Park. It’s a hot afternoon, the kind that makes the…
THE DAY THE HOOP SKIRT FINALLY WON THE WAR
I was sitting on a stage in front of a few hundred people at a convention not too long ago, and a young man in the third row…