THE TAKE THAT JAMIE FARR AND MIKE FARRELL COULDN’T FINISH.
It was just a casual comment, shared backstage, that made the entire room grow still. Mike Farrell turned to Jamie Farr, the usual crinkles around his eyes seeming…
THE SUCTION PUMP Blooper that completely shattered Alan Alda
I was actually doing a guest spot on a friend’s podcast not too long ago, and the host, out of nowhere, brought up this specific fan question. Someone…
TV’S MOST ARROGANT INTELLECTUAL… BUT HIS REAL PASSION WAS SILENCE
We all saw Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. He was haughty, brilliant, and insufferable. David Ogden Stiers inhabited that role so completely that it is almost impossible to…
THEY WERE LAUGHING BETWEEN TAKES, THEN GARY BURGHOFF SAW THE ANIMALS.
It started like any other reunion, a quiet conversation that gradually filled with laughter and nostalgic echoes. Loretta Swit leaned back, watching Gary Burghoff across the small table,…
KLINGER’S SOUTHERN BELLE GRAND ENTRANCE BECAME AN AIRBORNE DISASTER
The fluorescent lights of the convention hall hummed with a quiet energy as the afternoon session began. I was sitting on a small stage, leaning back in a…
THE TAKE THEY DIDN’T WANT GARY BURGHOFF TO EVER REHEARSE.
They were sitting in a quiet, dimly lit studio lounge, the kind of space hidden away from the modern hum of television production. Alan Alda was there, along…
ALAN ALDA RECALLS THE DAY THE MAS*H CAST COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING
I was sitting in my study the other day, just digging through some boxes I hadn’t opened since we moved, and I found it. A script from the…
HARRY MORGAN RODE AWAY ON SOPHIE, BUT HE NEVER TRULY LEFT.
The Malibu dust has a way of staying in your lungs long after you’ve left the ranch. Jamie Farr leaned back in his chair, his eyes fixed…
THE DAY THE WIND TOOK MAXWELL KLINGER TO GEORGIA
Interviewer: Jamie, I have to show you something. I was scrolling through a digital archive of old 20th Century Fox production stills last night, and I found this…
MIKE FARRELL DIDN’T SAY GOODBYE TO HAWKEYE. HE SAID SOMETHING ELSE.
The air in the small studio felt thick with the kind of silence that only comes when two people have known each other for forty years. Loretta…