HOW A SURGICAL PROP TURNED A TRAGIC MASH SCENE INTO A BLOODY COMEDY
I was sitting in a studio recently for a retrospective podcast, the kind where they bring in a couple of us old-timers to talk about the “glory days”…
THE TIME THE AMBULANCE VEIL ALMOST ENDED JAMIE FARR
I remember sitting across from a young podcast host a few years ago who looked at me with this genuine curiosity and asked a question I hadn’t heard…
THEY THOUGHT THE CAMERAS WERE JUST FILMING A FINALE. THEY WERE WRONG.
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only settles between people who have known each other for forty years. It was a small dinner in…
THE WORLD’S FAVORITE ETERNAL SON… BUT HE WAS DESPERATE TO GROW UP
The world knew him as the boy who could hear the choppers before they even appeared as dots on the horizon. He was the innocent heartbeat of the…
THE MAN WHO SPOKE FOR EVERYONE… BUT HID HIS OWN VOICE
The world knew him as the ultimate aristocrat. When he stepped onto the set of the most famous mobile army hospital in television history, he brought with him…
LORETTA SWIT CRIED REAL TEARS… BUT NOT FOR THE SCRIPT.
The coffee had gone cold in their mugs, but neither of them seemed to notice. Mike Farrell sat across from Loretta Swit in a quiet, sun-drenched corner of…
GARY BURGHOFF STEPPED INTO THE JEEP AND SUDDENLY THE WAR RETURNED.
The sun over the Malibu hills still has that same, unforgiving bite it had back in 1972. It is a dry, golden heat that clings to the skin…
THE MOMENT THE MAS*H CAST FINALLY BROKE THE NEW GUY
Alan Alda is leaning back in a leather chair, his eyes twinkling with that familiar, mischievous spark that hasn’t dimmed in over fifty years. He’s recording an episode…
THE DAY THE SURGICAL MASK TURNED INTO A COMEDY CRIME SCENE
You know, people always ask if the operating room scenes were as intense to film as they looked on screen. I was recently doing a podcast interview, and…
LORETTA SWIT KEPT A SECRET ABOUT THAT FAMOUS OUTBURST FOR DECADES.
Loretta Swit sat across from Jamie Farr, the California sun catching the silver in their hair. They weren’t in the mess tent anymore. There was no dust, no…