THE JEEP WAS RUSTING IN A GARAGE… THEN MIKE FARRELL SAT DOWN.
The garage was silent, filled only with the scent of old motor oil and the thick, heavy layer of dust that settles on things people want to forget….
HOW ALAN ALDA’S MOST SERIOUS SCENE TURNED INTO A TOTAL DISASTER
The podcast host leans into the microphone, his voice lowering as if he is about to ask a state secret. He looks across the table at Alan Alda,…
THE CHOPPER BLADES STOPPED SPINNING, BUT THE MEMORY NEVER DID.
The air at the small private airfield was still and heavy with the scent of sun-baked asphalt and old grease. Gary stood by the chain-link fence, squinting against…
THE DAY CORPORAL KLINGER NEARLY BROKE THE ENTIRE MASH MEDICAL UNIT
Interviewer: “Jamie, we’ve talked about the dresses for decades, but was there a specific moment where the costume department’s ambition actually collided with the reality of filming in…
HOW A SINGLE LOOK FROM HARRY MORGAN BROKE THE ENTIRE MASH SET
The microphone was positioned just a few inches from Jamie Farr’s face as he leaned back in his chair. He was participating in a late-career retrospective interview, the…
THE WORLD’S FAVORITE SOLDIER… BUT HIS REAL PEACE WAS FOUND IN THE WILD
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park was never quite the same as the sun over Korea, but for the man standing in the dust of the 4077th,…
THE ENGINE COUGHED ONCE AND MIKE FARRELL SUDDENLY REMEMBERED EVERYTHING.
The museum was too quiet for a place that housed so many ghosts. Mike Farrell stood in the center of the polished concrete floor, his hands buried deep…
HARRY MORGAN SAW THE TEARS WINCHESTER TRIED TO HIDE
They were sitting in a quiet corner of a restaurant in Los Angeles, decades after the helicopters had stopped flying and the dust of Malibu had settled. Harry…
THE DAY A RUBBER CHICKEN NEARLY KILLED THE TENSION ON MASH
It is funny how a single question can just unlock a vault in your brain that has been closed for decades. I was sitting in the studio recording…
THE ARROGANT SURGEON NEVER CRIED… UNTIL THE CAMERAS STOPPED ROLLING
Two older men sat at a quiet corner table in a Los Angeles restaurant, their voices barely rising above the clatter of silverware. To the rest of the…