THE DUST SETTLED DECADES AGO, BUT THE BOOTS STILL REMEMBER.
The drive up into the Malibu Creek State Park hasn’t changed much in forty years, but the men inside the car certainly have. Mike leaned against the window,…
THE SOUND CUT THROUGH THE AIR AND SUDDENLY IT WAS 1972.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the sharp, familiar peaks of the Malibu hills. It was a quiet afternoon, the kind of stillness that usually feels peaceful…
A FADED COSTUME AND A PRAYER: THE DAY THE ACTING STOPPED.
Jamie Farr sat across from William Christopher. They weren’t in Korea anymore. They weren’t even on the Fox ranch in Malibu, surrounded by the brown hills that had…
THAT OLD JEEP WAS COMEDY GOLD… BUT IT HELD A SECRET TRUTH.
Mike Farrell didn’t recognize the sound at first. It was just a mechanical whine in the distance, a sputtering cough echoing across the vintage vehicle show he was…
THEY ALL KNEW THE END WAS COMING, BUT NO ONE WAS READY.
It was a quiet afternoon when they finally sat down together again. Loretta Swit looked across the table at Mike Farrell and Jamie Farr. The years had softened…
HOW HARRY MORGAN BROKE THE ENTIRE MASH CAST AT TWO AM
I was sitting in the studio recently for an episode of my podcast, and the guest leaned over the microphone with a look of genuine curiosity. He asked…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE MOST TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER WITH COLONEL POTTER
I remember sitting on that stage during the 30th-anniversary reunion, looking out at a sea of fans who had grown up with us. A young man in the…
THEY CALLED IT ACTING… BUT FOR LORETTA AND JAMIE, IT WASN’T.
It started with a quiet afternoon in a room filled with ghosts of a time that felt like a lifetime ago. Loretta sat across from Jamie, the light…
THE ARISTOCRATIC VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD… BUT HIS TRUTH LIVED IN SILENCE
He was the man with the silver tongue and the velvet profile. On television, David Ogden Stiers occupied a space of intellectual superiority that few could match. He…
MIKE FARRELL SAT IN THE OLD JEEP AND THE WORLD DISAPPEARED.
Jamie and Mike are standing in a quiet, cavernous garage in the hills of Southern California. The air in the room is cool, but it carries the heavy,…