THE ONE TIME FRANK BURNS UTTERLY DERAILED THE MASH OPERATING ROOM
You know, people always ask me if playing a character as tightly wound as Frank Burns was exhausting. I always tell them the same thing: it was an…
THE DAY THE COOPERATIVE MEDICINE IN MASH WENT ABSOLUTELY WRONG
We were sitting in a small, modern studio in New York recording an episode for a podcast retrospective, and the host decided to bring out a stack of…
THAT TIME ALAN ALDA ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE MASH MESS TENT WITH HIM
We were sitting in this quiet, dimly lit podcast studio in New York, just catching up after what felt like ages. The host was leaning forward, shuffling through…
HOW ALAN ALDA ACCIDENTALLY TURNED A DRAMATIC MASH SCENE INTO PURE CHAOS
The podcast studio was quiet except for the low hum of the microphone equipment. Alan Alda leaned back in his chair, a familiar, warm smile spreading across his…
THE DAY ALAN ALDA ABSOLUTELY RUINED A INTENSE MEDICAL SCENE BY ACCIDENT
We were sitting in a quiet studio for a retrospective podcast, just looking at some old production stills from the early seasons of MAS*H, when this one photograph…
THE DAY JAMIE FARR ACCIDENTALLY TERRORIZED THE MASH SEWING ROOM
We were sitting around at this little retrospective panel a few years back, and someone in the front row asked a question about the wardrobe on the show….
HOLLYWOOD’S ULTIMATE MILITARY STRATEGIST… BUT HIS TRUE DEVOTION WAS OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT
Every Sunday evening, long after the heavy studio lights of twentieth century fox had cooled down and the dust of Malibu Canyon had settled, a quiet transformation took…
HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUE GIFT WAS ABSOLUTE QUIET
Every week, millions of viewers tuned in to watch a pompous, upper-class Boston surgeon deliver some of the sharpest, most condescending insults in television history. The man who…
THE SCREEN’S GREATEST COMIC COWARD… BUT HIS REAL LIFE DEMANDED ABSOLUTE COURAGE
Every Tuesday night, millions of Americans tuned in to laugh at a man they loved to despise. He was the quintessential military bureaucrat, a snobbish, spineless antagonist who…
THE HOLLYWOOD PRIMADONNA… BUT HER TRUE DEVOTION WAS UNSEEN
By the late 1970s, television audiences knew her as a sharp-tongued, fiercely independent military officer who commanded every scene she walked into. She was a blonde powerhouse in…