THE ARMY JEEP WAS JUST A PROP… UNTIL TWO OLD FRIENDS CLIMBED INSIDE.
The old hangar in California was mostly silent, filled with the scent of motor oil, dust, and aging canvas. Mike Farrell stood near the entrance, adjusting his jacket…
THAT ONE TIME ALAN ALDA COMPLETELY FORGOT HOW TO SURGEON
People always ask me about the heavy, emotional episodes of MAS*H, the ones that really made audiences cry. But when I look back at those eleven years in…
THE SNOTTY BRAT ON TELEVISION… BUT HIS PRIVATE LIFE WAS PURE DEVOTION
We all remember the characters who were meant to be disliked. In the landscape of classic television, there was one man who mastered the art of playing the…
THE OLD SWAMP PROP LURKING IN STORAGE CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR MIKE FARRELL.
The dusty warehouse in California was filled with forgotten pieces of television history. Mike Farrell was just looking for a misplaced photo when his hand brushed against something…
HE WAS THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM… BUT HE LIVED IN SILENCE
For eleven years on American television, David Ogden Stiers played a man who weaponized words. As Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, he was the embodiment of aristocratic arrogance,…
THE DAY THE MASH MESS TENT CAME CRASHING DOWN AROUND US
We were sitting around a table at a cast reunion panel discussion a few years back, just looking at old production stills, when someone held up a photo…
THE HOLLYWOOD COCONUT KING… BUT HIS HEART NEVER LEFT THE MARSH
For decades, the world knew him as the ultimate corporate sycophant, the bumbling, insecure, and deeply disliked Major Frank Burns. On the set of the hit series, he…
THEY SPENT DECADES LAUGHING TOGETHER, BUT ONE HELICOPTER BLADE CHANGED EVERYTHING.
The Malibu Creek sun was beating down on the dry brush, casting the exact same long shadows it did forty years ago. Mike Farrell and Jamie Farr stood…
HE PLAYED A RADICAL PACIFIST… BUT HIS GREATEST WAR WAS WITH HIS OWN BODILY BETRAYAL
Alan Alda spent over a decade embodying a man who could fix anything with a scalpel and a quick-witted joke. As Hawkeye Pierce on MAS*H, he was the…
HOLLYWOOD’S LOUDEST COMIC OUTRAGE… BUT HIS TRUE VOICE WAS SHAPED BY SILENCE
The world knew him as the frantic, cross-dressing Corporal Klinger, a whirlwind of taffeta, feathers, and desperate schemes to get kicked out of the army. Every week, millions…