THEY THOUGHT MARGARET HOULIHAN WAS TOUGH UNTIL THE CAMERAS STOPPED ROLLING
It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon in 2012 when they sat together in a small, sun-drenched garden in California. Loretta Swit leaned back in her wicker chair, the…
THE ELITE BOSTON SURGEON… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SECRET
The world knew him as a man of high-born breeding, a connoisseur of the finer things who looked down his nose at the chaos of a mobile army…
THE CHOPPER SOUND REACHED MALIBU, AND SUDDENLY IT WAS 1972 AGAIN.
The hills of Malibu Creek State Park don’t actually look much like South Korea, but for eleven years, they were the only home they knew. Jamie Farr stood…
THE ONE SCENE FROM MASH THAT WAS NEVER ACTUALLY ACTED.
Loretta Swit sat across from him, the soft afternoon light of a quiet restaurant catching the silver in her hair. It was one of those rare reunions that…
THE DAY KLINGER’S DRESS STOPPED BEING FUNNY TO LORETTA SWIT.
It was just a quiet moment backstage. Hiding from the noise of another “where are they now” television special. Loretta Swit sat nursing a coffee, watching Jamie Farr…
THEY CAME BACK TO MALIBU CREEK… BUT IT WASN’T COMEDY.
The dry California wind always blows the same way through that valley. It didn’t matter that decades had passed since the final wrap. It didn’t matter that the…
LORETTA SWIT THOUGHT MIKE FARRELL WAS ACTING… UNTIL THE CAMERAS STOPPED.
It was just a quiet moment backstage. The kind of pause that happens when old friends gather, surrounded by the noise of a milestone reunion event. The bright…
THE DAY A GOAT LITERALLY ATE THE SCRIPT OF MASH
The interviewer leans forward, the studio lights reflecting off his glasses as he looks at the man who once brought Walter “Radar” O’Reilly to life. “Gary, we’ve talked…
THE POMPOUS SURGEON WE LOVED… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SECRET
The actor arrived in the small coastal town of Newport, Oregon, not as a celebrity looking for a vacation home, but as a man looking for a place…
WE THOUGHT THE HELICOPTER WAS JUST A PROP UNTIL THE SILENCE HIT.
The sun over Malibu Creek State Park has a specific kind of cruelty that Gary Burghoff never quite forgot. It is a dry, baking heat that settles into…