LORETTA SAW A SIDE OF COLONEL POTTER NO ONE EXPECTED

The lunch was quiet, the kind of silence that only exists between people who have known each other for forty years. Loretta Swit sat across from Harry Morgan,…

THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER ALMOST LOST HIS LADY IN THE MUD

You know, people always ask me if I kept the dresses. They think there is a giant walk-in closet in my house filled with sequins and chiffon. I…

TV’S MOST INNOCENT SOLDIER… BUT HIS HEART BELONGED TO THE WILD

The 4077th was a place of noise. There was the constant, rhythmic thumping of helicopter blades, the shouting of orders, and the canned laughter that followed every wisecrack…

THE SOUND OF THE ROTORS STILL MAKES LORETTA SWIT STOP COLD.

The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is a specific kind of light that only hits the Malibu hills…

THE MOST HATED MAN ON TV… BUT HE CHOSE HIS OWN PEACE

The television set in the mid-1970s was a place of constant motion, blinding lights, and roaring laughter. For a classically trained actor, it was the pinnacle of commercial…

THE FINAL SALUTE THAT BROKE THE HEART OF COLONEL POTTER

Loretta Swit still pauses when she hears the distant thump of a helicopter, even decades after the cameras stopped rolling. It’s a ghost of a memory that refuses…

THE ARISTOCRATIC SURGEON ON SCREEN… BUT HE HID A HEARTFELT TRUTH

He was the man who brought Mahler and Mozart to a muddy camp in Korea. To the world, David Ogden Stiers was the personification of high-born dignity. He…

HARRY MORGAN RECALLS THE NIGHT THE MASH CAST LOST THEIR MINDS

You know, people always saw Colonel Potter as this rock-solid, tough-as-nails horse soldier. And I suppose that’s exactly what I wanted them to see when the red light…

THE DAY THE HOOP SKIRT TOOK OVER THE KOREAN WAR

I am sitting on a brightly lit stage at a fan convention in New Jersey, looking out at a sea of people who still, after all these decades,…

THE DAY THE MOST SERIOUS MAN ON TELEVISION FINALLY BROKE

The studio lights are dimmed, and the air is thick with that respectful, quiet hum you only get when a veteran of the craft is about to speak….