IT WAS JUST A PROP UNTIL THE ENGINE STARTED TO SHAKE.
The Malibu sun was beating down on the dry brush of the canyon, casting long, jagged shadows across the gravel path. Gary stood by the trailhead, squinting against…
ELEVEN YEARS OF FICTION… AND ONE SECOND OF RAW TRUTH
The studio was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only settles when two people realize they are the last ones left in the room who remember the…
THE FINAL SCENE WAS SCRIPTED… BUT THE SILENCE WASN’T.
The air in the restaurant was cool, a sharp contrast to the memory of the dry, dusty heat of the Malibu mountains that lived in their bones. Loretta…
THE DAY THE COLONEL LOST HIS COOL IN THE SURGERY SUITE
The interviewer leaned back, his headset glowing blue in the dim studio light. “Mike,” he said, “everyone knows the chemistry on MAS*H was legendary. But there had to…
THE ARROGANT SURGEON… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN THE HARMONY
The world knew him as the man who brought a touch of the Ivy League to a dusty field hospital in Korea. David Ogden Stiers possessed a voice…
THEY TOUCHED THE HEAVY RUBBER RAFT AND THE YEARS FADED AWAY
It had been over two decades since they wrapped the massive production in England. Three men walked quietly along the tree-lined banks of the Moder River in Haguenau,…
THE BRAVEST MAN IN THE TRENCH WAS THE ONE CRACKING JOKES
Rick Gomez had one of the hardest jobs that nobody talked about on the set of Band of Brothers. He was cast to play Technician Fourth Grade George…
THEY STEPPED INSIDE THE OLD PLANE AND THE METAL CHANGED EVERYTHING
Almost twenty years had passed since they first stood together in a cramped metal tube. Donnie Wahlberg, Frank John Hughes, and Neal McDonough were no longer the young…
THE HEAVIEST WEAPON ON THE BAND OF BROTHERS SET WAS A MEDICAL KIT
When the cast of Band of Brothers arrived at Captain Dale Dye’s infamous boot camp, nearly every actor wanted the same thing. They wanted to be the guy…
LORETTA SWIT KEPT HER HEAD DOWN DURING THAT FINAL SALUTE.
The restaurant was too bright, and the music was a little too loud for a Tuesday evening. But in the corner booth, the world had narrowed down to…