TV’S MOST REFINED MAJOR… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS A LONELY BURDEN
The Oregon coast has a way of swallowing sound. In the small town of Newport, the mist rolls in off the Pacific, turning the world into a series…
THE WORLD LAUGHED AT HIS DRESS, BUT SHE KNEW THE TRUTH.
The restaurant was too loud for a conversation this heavy, so they retreated to the patio. Loretta sat across from Jamie, the California sun catching the silver in…
THE DAY THE BIG RED BIRD MET HIS MATCH AT THE MESS TENT
It is funny how a single photograph can just unlock a vault in your brain that you haven’t opened in forty years. I was sitting at a fan…
THE ARISTOCRATIC INTELLECTUAL… BUT HIS TRUTH REMAINED IN THE SHADOWS
The voice was unmistakable. It was a rich, baritone instrument that could command a room or soothe a child, a sound that felt like old mahogany and expensive…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE CHAOTIC CARMEN MIRANDA HAT DISASTER ON SET
I was sitting on a stage for a reunion panel a few years back, looking out at a sea of faces that still remembered us after all these…
THE HEART OF THE 4077TH… BUT HE WAS LOSING HIS OWN
The world knew him as the boy who heard the helicopters before they appeared. To millions of viewers, he was the symbol of innocence preserved in the middle…
THEY THOUGHT THE CAMERAS WERE OFF… BUT THE SOUND RETURNED.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains, casting long, amber shadows across the dry brush of Malibu Creek State Park….
THE DRESS MADE US LAUGH BUT THE SILENCE BROKE US
The sun was beginning to dip behind the Malibu hills, casting long, amber shadows across the dusty terrain that once housed the most famous hospital in television history….
HOW A WEDDING DRESS AND A FRIGHTENED HORSE NEARLY RUINED MASH
I was sitting across from this young podcast host a few months ago, and he asked me something I hadn’t really thought about in years. He didn’t ask…
THE WORLD’S MOST ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS HEART SOUGHT A QUIET SYMPHONY
The image of Charles Emerson Winchester III was a cage. For years, the public saw a man who would rather die than be seen as common. David Ogden…