JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE ABSURDITY OF RIDING NAKED THROUGH THE KOREAN WAR
The studio lights are low, and the air is thick with the comfortable nostalgia that only comes when two old friends sit across from each other at a…
THE WORLD SAW A CHARACTER LEAVE… BUT GARY BURGHOFF WAS GONE.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy, comfortable quiet that only exists between people who have shared a lifetime of secrets. Loretta sat across from Gary, her…
THE HELICOPTER SOUND THAT BROUGHT LORETTA SWIT TO TEARS.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon in Malibu, the kind of stillness that usually…
ALAN ALDA AND THE UNSHAKEABLE PROFESSIONALISM OF HARRY MORGAN
Host: Alan, you’ve spent decades in this business, but people still go back to those eleven years in the 4077th. When you look back, is there a specific…
GARY BURGHOFF RECALLS THE DAY THE MASH UNIT TOTALLY FELL APART
I was doing this podcast recently, and the host asked me an unexpected question about the physical toll of playing Radar O’Reilly for all those years. He wasn’t…
THE GOODBYE SCENE THAT BROKE LORETTA SWIT’S HEART YEARS LATER.
Jamie Farr and Loretta Swit sat in a corner of a quiet room, the kind of space where the noise of the world finally slows down. They weren’t…
THE PIANO WAS OUT OF TUNE. BUT DAVID OGDEN STIERS WASN’T.
The coffee had gone cold on the table between them. It was one of those rare afternoons where the noise of the world seemed to stay outside the…
THE CHOPPER SOUNDED THE SAME BUT LORETTA SWIT FINALLY FELT IT.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t care about the passage of time. It beats down with the same dry, unforgiving heat that it did back in…
TV’S MOST ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUE PASSION WAS THE SILENT FOG
The world knew him as the man who looked down his nose at everything. When David Ogden Stiers first stepped onto the set of the most popular show…
THE NOISE STOPPED THE CONVERSATION. THEN THE TEARS STARTED.
The afternoon sun was dipping low over the hills, casting long, amber shadows across the patio where two old friends sat. Loretta Swit leaned back in her chair,…