THEY SAID GOODBYE ON CAMERA… BUT LORETTA SWIT NEVER LEFT.
The room was quiet, the kind of silence that only exists between people who have known each other for half a lifetime. Mike Farrell sat across from Loretta…
THE MOMENT THE UNSTOPPABLE COLONEL POTTER FINALLY BROKE ON THE MASH SET
It was a Tuesday afternoon in southern California, and the heat inside the Stage 9 soundstage at 20th Century Fox was reaching that miserable, stagnant point where even…
THE SURREAL LUNCH OF THE MAN IN THE MONOCLE
The studio was quiet, the kind of expensive silence you only find in late-night radio booths or high-end archival interviews. Werner Klemperer sat across from me, looking every…
THE JOKES SAVED MILLIONS… BUT ONE SCENE BROKE THE HEROES
The light was fading over the quiet California patio, casting long, purple shadows that reminded him of the mountains in Malibu. Alan sat across from his old friend,…
HE SAT IN THE JEEP ONE LAST TIME… AND EVERYTHING RETURNED.
The sun was hitting the California hills at just the right angle to make everything look like 1974 again. It was a quiet afternoon when Mike Farrell and…
THE SCRIPT CALLED FOR A SALUTE BUT THE ACTORS WERE BROKEN
Loretta Swit sat across from Mike Farrell, the afternoon sun casting long, gentle shadows across the table. They weren’t talking about the industry or the latest scripts landing…
THE DAY COLONEL KLINK’S EYE WENT FOR A SWIM IN COFFEE
The interviewer leans forward, the studio lights catching the silver rim of a small, circular object in his hand. “Werner, I think you recognize this,” he says with…
TV’S MOST POMPOUS ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS HEART HELD A QUIET SECRET
Every week, millions of people tuned in to watch Charles Emerson Winchester III bloviate. He was the Boston aristocrat we loved to hate, and then simply loved. He…
HOW HARRY MORGAN BROKE THE ENTIRE MASH SET WITH ONE FACE
I was sitting in a small, soundproof studio in New York, doing one of those long-form podcast interviews where the host really wants to get under the skin…
THE HILARIOUS TRUTH BEHIND COLONEL KLINK’S FAMOUS MONOCLE
I remember sitting in a studio in Los Angeles during the late nineties, doing one of those retrospective interviews that actors of a certain vintage eventually find themselves…