HARRY MORGAN KNEW THE TEARS IN THE FINALE WEREN’T ACTING.
The studio lights were a lot brighter than the sun over the Malibu Creek State Park ever was. Harry Morgan sat in a plush armchair, his back still…
THE MAN WHO BLESSED US ALL… BUT HE WAS THE ONE IN NEED
Loretta Swit sat across from Jamie Farr in a quiet corner of a studio lot, the kind of place where the ghosts of old Hollywood still seem to…
THE VELVET DISASTER THAT BROKE THE ENTIRE 4077TH CAST
The young interviewer sat across from Jamie Farr, leaning forward with an expression of pure, unadulterated awe. He had just asked about the technical challenges of being the…
THE DAY KLINGER LOST A WAR WITH A WEDDING DRESS
I remember sitting on a brightly lit stage in a crowded hotel ballroom a few years ago. The air was thick with the scent of coffee and nostalgia….
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE ONE MAN WHO BROKE THE MAS*H SET
The podcast host adjusted his headphones and looked across the table at the man who had spent eleven years playing Hawkeye Pierce. He asked a question that seemed…
A VOICE OF TOTAL AUTHORITY… BUT HE LIVED IN TOTAL FEAR
David Ogden Stiers did not walk onto the set of the most popular show on television as a novice, but he carried a weight that no amount of…
GARY BURGHOFF SAT IN THE JEEP AND SUDDENLY THE LAUGHTER STOPPED.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t feel like California today. For two men walking through the tall, dry grass, it feels like a ghost of a…
THE MOMENT RADAR LEFT… AND THE CAST STOPPED ACTING
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only exists between people who have known each other for fifty years. Gary sat across from Loretta, the…
THE TIME THE DYING SOLDIER FELL ASLEEP DURING SURGERY
I was sitting across from a very bright podcast host recently who asked me a question I hadn’t heard in at least a decade. Usually, people want to…
GARY BURGHOFF HEARD THE SOUND AND IMMEDIATELY STOPPED WALKING.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park doesn’t change much. It is the same unrelenting, bleached-white heat that used to bake the olive-drab tents of the 4077th. Gary…