JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE ABSOLUTE CHAOS OF THE KLINGER WEDDING DRESS
I was sitting on a small, rickety stage at a fan convention a few years ago, and the room was packed with people wearing olive drab t-shirts. A…
THE MOMENT FATHER MULCAHY SAW THE REAL KLINGER FOR THE FIRST TIME.
The afternoon sun in California always had a way of looking like Korea if you squinted just right. Jamie Farr sat across from William Christopher, the two of…
THE DAY THE MASH JEEP BECAME A SEAFOOD CONVECTION OVEN
Gary Burghoff leans back in the leather chair, his eyes crinkling at the corners in a way that immediately evokes the ghost of Walter “Radar” O’Reilly. He is…
THE O.R. WENT COMPLETELY SILENT WHEN BILL CHRISTOPHER FINALLY SPOKE
Loretta Swit sat on her patio, the California sun catching the silver in her hair. Across from her sat William Christopher, the man the world knew as Father…
THE CHOPPERS NEVER STOPPED IN HIS HEAD. THEN JAMIE HEARD IT AGAIN.
The dust in Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t just sit on the ground. It hangs in the air like a ghost that refuses to leave, coating everything in…
THE DAY THE SALAMI TOOK OVER THE MAS*H SET
I was sitting on a stage in North Hollywood not too long ago, doing one of those Q&A sessions for a group of young, aspiring actors who looked…
THE ARISTOCRATIC DOCTOR EVERYONE KNEW… BUT HE LIVED IN THE SHADOWS
The 4077th was a place of noise. The clatter of helicopters, the shouting in the OR, the constant banter of a cast that had become a family. But…
THE DAY ONE-TAKE HARRY MORGAN FINALLY MET HIS MATCH IN SURGERY
We were all sitting there on that stage for the thirtieth anniversary, looking out at a sea of fans who had stuck with us for decades. It was…
THE FINAL GOODBYE WASN’T ACTING: LORETTA SWIT REVEALS THE TRUTH.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only exists between two people who have shared a lifetime in the span of a decade. Loretta sat…
THE KID WHO HEARD THE HELICOPTERS… BUT HE ONLY CRAVED THE SILENCE
In the late 1970s, there wasn’t a face in America more associated with innocence than his. To tens of millions of viewers, he was the heartbeat of the…