ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE NIGHT THE SURGERY ROOM FINALLY BROKE THE CAST
I was sitting there, recording a segment for a podcast, and the host asked me something I hadn’t thought about in years. He asked, “Alan, when you look…
THE SOUND HARRY MORGAN COULD NEVER SHAKE IN THE MALIBU HILLS
Harry Morgan’s porch was a place of deep, resonant stillness. The kind of silence you only find in the hills of California when the world feels like it’s…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE KLINGER OUTFIT THAT NEARLY REWROTE THE SCRIPT
The fluorescent lights of the convention center hummed as Jamie Farr sat on the stage, leaning into the microphone with that familiar, mischievous glint in his eyes. A…
GARY BURGHOFF HEARD THE SOUND AND IMMEDIATELY LOOKED TO THE SKY.
The Malibu sun was unforgiving, beating down on the same dusty hills that once stood in for the mountains of Uijeongbu. Gary Burghoff stood at the edge of…
HARRY MORGAN HELD A SECRET THAT CHANGED LORETTA SWIT’S FINAL GOODBYE
The patio in Los Angeles was quiet, the kind of heavy, golden silence that only seems to exist in the twilight of a long career. Loretta Swit sat…
THE DAY THE DRESS TOOK OVER THE ENTIRE MASH SET
I was sitting in this small, soundproof booth for a podcast a few months ago, and the host, this kid who couldn’t have been more than twenty-five, looked…
THE SOUND THAT MADE LORETTA SWIT STOP IN HER TRACKS
It was a quiet afternoon in the hills of Malibu, the kind of day where the air feels heavy with the scent of dried sage and sun-baked earth….
HARRY MORGAN WASN’T ACTING IN THAT SCENE… HE WAS GRIEVING A FRIEND.
The afternoon sun was casting long, amber shadows across the patio as Loretta Swit watched the man she had called “Colonel” for so many years. Harry Morgan sat…
THE DAY TRAPPER JOHN LOST HIS COOL OVER A SURGICAL SLIP
It was a late afternoon in a quiet studio, decades after the swamp had been packed away and the olive drab fatigues had been retired to a museum….
THE CAMERAS WERE STILL ROLLING BUT THE ACTING HAD STOPPED
It was a quiet afternoon in the valley, the kind where the sun seems to hang just a little longer than usual. Gary sat across from Loretta, a…