HOW ALAN ALDA ACCIDENTALLY TURNED A SOLEMN MAS*H SCENE INTO ABSOLUTE CHAOS
It is a quiet afternoon in a modern recording studio, the kind with thick acoustic foam on the walls and soft, ambient lighting. Alan Alda sits across from…
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE HILARIOUS PROP MISTAKE THAT RUINED A PERFECT TAKE
We were sitting in a quiet studio recording an episode for my podcast, Clear+Vivid, when the guest brought up the concept of muscle memory. It is funny how…
THE DAY HAWKEYE PIERCED THE WRONG PERSON WITH A PROP SURGICAL NEEDLE
You know, people always ask me about the blood and the sweat in that swamp, but they forget how much we just desperately needed to laugh. We were…
HOLLYWOOD’S ULTIMATE MILITARY COMMANDER… BUT COMFORT CAME FROM AN UNEXPECTED BOND
The cameras on the 20th Century Fox lot captured a man of rigid posture and booming authority. As Colonel Sherman T. Potter, he was the definitive anchor of…
HE PLAYED A COWARDLY EMBEZZLER… BUT CHERISHED AN EXTRAORDINARY LOVE
For eleven years on television, audiences knew Larry Linville as the snobbish, hyper-patriotic, and deeply insecure Major Frank Burns. He played a man everyone loved to hate, a…
HE PLAYED THE COWARDLY BURGOMASTER… BUT HIS REAL COMPASSION SAVED LIVES
We often remember the faces that graced our television screens during the golden age of Hollywood as frozen in time, forever linked to the characters they portrayed. For…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT IN REAL LIFE HE CHOSE CHARACTER
We all remember the face of a man who made cowardice and arrogance an art form on television. For years, millions of viewers tuned in to see a…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT HE WAS THE BRAVEST MAN IN THE ROOM
For years, millions of television viewers tuned in every week to despise him. He played a character who was entirely devoid of a moral compass, a man defined…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT HE CHOSE REALITY OVER FAME
We live in a culture that confuses the actor with the role, often projecting the flaws of a character onto the human being who steps into their shoes….
THE COWARDLY MAJOR ON TELEVISION… BUT A GENTLEMAN OF QUIET CONVICTION
For five seasons, millions of viewers tuned in to laugh at a man they loved to hate. The character was pomposity wrapped in a military uniform, a snobbish,…