THE SOUND THAT HAUNTS THE CAST OF MASH FORTY YEARS LATER
Jamie Farr was sitting on a quiet porch in Southern California when the sky started to vibrate. Beside him, Gary Burghoff didn’t even have to look up to…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE ABSOLUTE CHAOS OF THE KLINGER WEDDING DRESS
I was sitting on a small, rickety stage at a fan convention a few years ago, and the room was packed with people wearing olive drab t-shirts. A…
THE MOMENT FATHER MULCAHY SAW THE REAL KLINGER FOR THE FIRST TIME.
The afternoon sun in California always had a way of looking like Korea if you squinted just right. Jamie Farr sat across from William Christopher, the two of…
THE DAY THE MASH JEEP BECAME A SEAFOOD CONVECTION OVEN
Gary Burghoff leans back in the leather chair, his eyes crinkling at the corners in a way that immediately evokes the ghost of Walter “Radar” O’Reilly. He is…
GARY BURGHOFF HEARD THE SOUND AND IMMEDIATELY STOPPED WALKING.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t change much. It is the same unrelenting, bleached-white heat that used to bake the olive-drab tents of the 4077th. Gary…
LORETTA SWIT AND GARY BURGHOFF REMEMBER THE SCENE THAT FELT TOO REAL
The sun was beginning to dip behind the hills of Malibu, casting long, golden shadows across the patio where they sat. It had been decades since the cameras…
THE DAY THE 4077TH GAVE THE STUDIO A FULL MOON
The auditorium was packed to the rafters. It was one of those big nostalgia conventions in Burbank, and the room was filled with a sea of olive drab…
TV’S TOUGHEST MILITARY NURSE… BUT HER REAL STRENGTH WAS HER SOFTNESS
She spent eleven long years encased in a stiff, olive-drab uniform that seemed to dictate her every move. To the millions of people who tuned in every week,…
THE DAY HARRY MORGAN COMPLETELY BROKE THE OPERATING ROOM TENSION
I was sitting in the studio for an episode of my podcast, Clear+Vivid, and my guest brought up the idea of professional composure. They asked me if I…
THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A QUIET REBELLION
When the black sedan pulled up to the set of the most popular show in America in 1977, the man who stepped out didn’t look like a revolutionary….