THE CHOPPER SOUND REACHED MALIBU, AND SUDDENLY IT WAS 1972 AGAIN.
The hills of Malibu Creek State Park don’t actually look much like South Korea, but for eleven years, they were the only home they knew. Jamie Farr stood…
THE ONE SCENE FROM MASH THAT WAS NEVER ACTUALLY ACTED.
Loretta Swit sat across from him, the soft afternoon light of a quiet restaurant catching the silver in her hair. It was one of those rare reunions that…
THE DAY A GOAT LITERALLY ATE THE SCRIPT OF MASH
The interviewer leans forward, the studio lights reflecting off his glasses as he looks at the man who once brought Walter “Radar” O’Reilly to life. “Gary, we’ve talked…
THE POMPOUS SURGEON WE LOVED… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SECRET
The actor arrived in the small coastal town of Newport, Oregon, not as a celebrity looking for a vacation home, but as a man looking for a place…
WE THOUGHT THE HELICOPTER WAS JUST A PROP UNTIL THE SILENCE HIT.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park has a specific kind of cruelty that Gary Burghoff never quite forgot. It is a dry, baking heat that settles into…
THE WORLD SAW A TV DOCTOR. THE VETERANS SAW A LIFELINE.
The restaurant in Malibu was quiet, the kind of place where the sound of the Pacific Ocean drifts through the open windows. Loretta sat across from Jamie, the…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE DAY THE WEDDING DRESS NEARLY RUINED EVERYTHING
I was sitting across from this young kid, a talented actor just starting his career, and he looked at me with this mix of awe and genuine confusion….
THE POMPOUS ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN THE SILENCE
David Ogden Stiers lived a life that sounded like a cello. Deep, resonant, and carefully tuned. Most people knew him as the foil to Hawkeye Pierce, the man…
THEY THOUGHT THE CAMERAS WERE OFF… BUT THE GRIEF WAS REAL.
The hotel ballroom was filled with the kind of expensive air conditioning that makes you forget the world outside exists. Loretta Swit sat at a small round table,…
HOW DAVID OGDEN STIERS SURVIVED THE BRUTAL PRANKS OF THE MASH SET
I remember sitting on a stage in a drafty convention hall a few years back, looking out at a sea of faces that spanned three generations. A young…