THE SURGICAL DUMMY PRANK THAT BROKE THE ENTIRE CAST
We were sitting in a recording studio when the podcast host threw a curveball. “Alan, everyone talks about the heavy moments on the show. But you guys…
THE SECRET THAT MADE THE CAST OF MAS*H STOP LAUGHING
They were a family of pranksters, always finding ways to break the tension on set. But on this particular afternoon in 1975, the laughter suddenly died. Stage 9…
THEY RETURNED TO THE MOUNTAINS AND HEARD GHOSTS IN THE WIND
Decades had passed since they packed up the canvas tents and left the mountains for good. When Mike and Loretta finally returned to the old filming site at…
THE SECRET SCRIPT PAGE THAT BROKE A TELEVISION CAST’S HEART
Years later, whenever the surviving cast members of a certain beloved television show gathered, the stories usually started with the laughter. They would sit around, drinking coffee, recalling…
THE SLEEPING PATIENT WHO RUINED THE OPERATING ROOM SCENE
I was sitting down recently for a documentary interview about the legacy of our show. The director was asking me all the standard questions about character development, the…
HE PLAYED A COWARDLY EMBEZZLER… BUT CHERISHED AN EXTRAORDINARY LOVE
For eleven years on television, audiences knew Larry Linville as the snobbish, hyper-patriotic, and deeply insecure Major Frank Burns. He played a man everyone loved to hate, a…
HE PLAYED THE COWARDLY BURGOMASTER… BUT HIS REAL COMPASSION SAVED LIVES
We often remember the faces that graced our television screens during the golden age of Hollywood as frozen in time, forever linked to the characters they portrayed. For…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT IN REAL LIFE HE CHOSE CHARACTER
We all remember the face of a man who made cowardice and arrogance an art form on television. For years, millions of viewers tuned in to see a…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT HE WAS THE BRAVEST MAN IN THE ROOM
For years, millions of television viewers tuned in every week to despise him. He played a character who was entirely devoid of a moral compass, a man defined…
THE HOLLYWOOD COWARD… BUT HE CHOSE REALITY OVER FAME
We live in a culture that confuses the actor with the role, often projecting the flaws of a character onto the human being who steps into their shoes….