THE STONES SPELLED GOODBYE… BUT THE ACTORS NEVER LEFT THAT HILL
Mike leaned back in his chair, the California sunset hitting his face in the exact same way it did forty years ago on the ranch. He looked across…
THE GENTLE CHAPLAIN OF THE 4077TH HAD A PROP CRATE REBELLION
I’m sitting in my study, surrounded by the remnants of a career that spanned decades, but my hands keep going back to this one specific box. It’s amazing…
THE MAN IN THE DRESS… BUT OFF-SCREEN HIS VALUES WERE IRONCLAD
The world knew him as the man in the floral prints and the feathered hats. He was the one trying every ridiculous scheme in the book to get…
MAJOR WINCHESTERS DIGNITY VS FIFTY POUNDS OF HIDDEN LEAD
The interviewer leaned forward, a look of genuine curiosity on his face as he looked at the man who had brought so much intellectual weight to the 4077th….
HOW A SLEEPING SOLDIER RUINED THE MOST DRAMATIC SCENE ON MASH
“You know, people always ask about the heavy stuff,” Alan says, leaning into the microphone with that familiar, warm rasp in his voice that has only grown more…
TV’S FAVORITE COMMANDER… BUT HIS BIGGEST GAMBLE BECAME HIS DEEPEST REGRET
The air on the set of the 4077th was often thick with a mixture of cigarette smoke, California dust, and an almost electric sense of creative destiny. In…
THE CHOPPER BLADES SOUNDED DIFFERENT TWENTY YEARS LATER.
The hills of Malibu don’t look much like Korea. But if you close your eyes and let the sun hit your face at a certain angle, the years…
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ACTING BUT THE TEARS WERE REAL.
The dust in Malibu Creek has a way of staying in your lungs for decades. Loretta Swit sat across from William Christopher, years after the helicopters had finally…
THE DAY A THREE STAR GENERAL CRITIQUED KLINGERS LATEST FASHION CHOICES
The microphone sat between us, a small silver monolith in the quiet of the studio. I was sitting across from Jamie Farr, who at eighty-something still had that…
THE TELEVISION ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUE HEART WAS HIDDEN IN THE MUSIC
The coastal town of Newport, Oregon, is a place where the Pacific Ocean does not just meet the land; it dominates it. The air is thick with salt,…