ALAN ALDA’S MOST PROFOUND MONOLOGUE… BUT THE PATIENT WAS A CHICKEN
Alan Alda is leaning back in his chair, his voice carrying that familiar, rhythmic cadence that millions of people grew up listening to every Monday night. He…
THE MAJOR’S STERN EXTERIOR… BUT THE COLONEL BROKE HER SPIRIT
The interviewer leans forward, adjusting his microphone, and asks the question that everyone always asks when they sit down with a legend of the 4077th. He wants…
TV’S MOST ARISTOCRATIC MAJOR… BUT HIS GREATEST SYMPHONY WAS SILENT
David Ogden Stiers was a man defined by his voice before he was ever defined by his face. Long before the world saw the haughty, intellectual posture…
THE STEADY COMMANDER… BUT HIS PRIVATE BATTLE WAS BELONGING
The veteran actor sat in the back of a black car, watching the dry, brown hills of Malibu go by. He was sixty years old, with a resume…
THE WORLD SAW A COMEDY… BUT WAYNE ROGERS SAW THE TRUTH.
It started in a quiet corner of a restaurant in New York, decades after the olive-drab tents had been struck and packed away. Wayne Rogers sat across…
THE DAY BOSTON’S FINEST FINALLY LOST HIS COMPOSURE IN THE SWAMP
The studio lights were low, casting a soft glow over the velvet chairs of the podcast set. The host leaned forward, adjusted his headphones, and looked across…
THE BOTTLE WAS EMPTY… BUT THE MEMORY WAS OVERFLOWING.
The warehouse in North Hollywood was far too quiet for a place holding so much history. Mike Farrell stood in the center of the dim aisle, the…
THE WORLD WEPT WHEN RADAR LEFT… BUT GARY BURGHOFF WAS ALREADY GONE
It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon in a sun-drenched room in Los Angeles when Gary Burghoff and Alan Alda sat across from each other. The air was still,…
LORETTA SWIT WALKED INTO THE SWAMP AND FINALLY CRIED.
the air in the Smithsonian was climate-controlled, filtered, and entirely too clean. Loretta Swit smoothed the lapel of her jacket, her eyes tracking the familiar lines of…