THE WORLD SAW A CHARACTER LEAVE… BUT GARY BURGHOFF WAS GONE.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy, comfortable quiet that only exists between people who have shared a lifetime of secrets. Loretta sat across from Gary, her…
THE HELICOPTER SOUND THAT BROUGHT LORETTA SWIT TO TEARS.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon in Malibu, the kind of stillness that usually…
ALAN ALDA AND THE UNSHAKEABLE PROFESSIONALISM OF HARRY MORGAN
Host: Alan, you’ve spent decades in this business, but people still go back to those eleven years in the 4077th. When you look back, is there a specific…
THEY HEARD THAT FAMILIAR SOUND… AND SUDDENLY THE WAR WAS REAL AGAIN.
The sun was beating down on the tarmac of a small airfield in Southern California. Mike Farrell was standing near the edge of a hangar, his hands tucked…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER ALMOST LOST HIS DRESS ON THE MASH SET
The auditorium was packed with fans of all ages, and the air was thick with that specific kind of nostalgia you only find at television conventions. Jamie Farr…
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ACTING… BUT DAVID WAS REALLY GRIEVING.
The tea had gone cold, but neither of them seemed to notice. Loretta sat across from David in the quiet of his living room, years after the dust…
TV’S STOIC ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS A QUIET SYMPHONY
To the world, he was the embodiment of high-society rigidity. As Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MAS*H, he played a man who used his intellect as armor…
THE WORLD SAW A COMEDY BUT THESE TWO HEARD A GHOST
The afternoon sun was leaning heavy and gold over the hills of Southern California. Jamie Farr sat on a wooden porch chair, squinting against the glare. Across from…
GARY BURGHOFF RECALLS THE DAY THE MASH UNIT TOTALLY FELL APART
I was doing this podcast recently, and the host asked me an unexpected question about the physical toll of playing Radar O’Reilly for all those years. He wasn’t…
THE GOODBYE SCENE THAT BROKE LORETTA SWIT’S HEART YEARS LATER.
Jamie Farr and Loretta Swit sat in a corner of a quiet room, the kind of space where the noise of the world finally slows down. They weren’t…