ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE DAY THE MASH SET COMPLETELY COLLAPSED
I was sitting on a stage in front of about two thousand people during a tribute for the show’s anniversary when someone in the third row stood up…
TV’S MOST FAMOUS COWARD… BUT HE CARRIED A SOLDIER’S SILENT TRUTH
The dust at the 20th Century Fox Ranch in Malibu had a way of getting into everything. It coated the olive-drab tents, settled into the creases of the…
THE SCRIPT SAID GOODBYE… BUT DAVID OGDEN STIERS WASN’T ACTING.
The party was loud, but the corner where Loretta Swit sat was perfectly still. It was one of those milestone reunions where the champagne flowed as freely as…
THEY THOUGHT RADAR WAS JOKING UNTIL THE HELICOPTERS ACTUALLY ARRIVED.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park was doing that thing it used to do back in 1972. It was a harsh, unforgiving gold that turned the dry…
TV’S MOST ELOQUENT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HE LIVED A QUIET LIE
The world knew that voice before they even saw the face. It was a voice made of mahogany and velvet, a resonance that suggested a life spent in…
JAMIE FARR REVEALS THE COSTUME THAT BROKE COLONEL POTTER
I’m sitting on this stage in a drafty convention center, and the lights are so bright I can barely see past the first few rows. It’s a fan…
LORETTA SWIT REVEALED WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN THE CAMERAS STOPPED ROLLING
Loretta Swit sat in the quiet of her living room, her fingers tracing the edges of an old, slightly faded photograph. It was a candid shot from the…
TV’S MOST ELITE ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH WAS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
He was known for a very specific kind of haughtiness. When he walked onto the set of the 4077th, he brought a level of Shakespearean gravitas that the…
THEY THOUGHT THE DUST WAS JUST COSTUME. THEY WERE WRONG.
The sun over the Malibu hills has a way of bleaching the color out of everything. It turns the green of the brush into a dusty, tired gold….
THE VETERAN COLONEL’S STERN EXTERIOR… BUT THE MASK FINALLY CRACKED
The interviewer leaned in, a respectful smile on his face, and quoted one of those quintessential Colonel Potter-isms that had defined a decade of television. “Horse hockey,” he…