THE DAY SCHULTZ TRIED TO EAT THE SCENERY ON THE SET
The podcast host, Marcus, leans forward and places a tarnished silver platter on the table between them. Robert Clary, sitting upright with that unmistakable spark still dancing in…
WERNER KLEMPERER AND THE CASE OF THE VANISHING MONOCLE
The interviewer leaned forward, his hands clasped over a stack of notes, and slid a grainy, black-and-white production still across the mahogany table. Werner Klemperer, elegant even in…
THE CHOPPER BLADES STOPPED SPINNING… BUT THE NOISE NEVER TRULY LEFT.
Mike and Jamie were sitting on a pair of weathered folding chairs, tucked away behind a small hospitality tent at a charity event in the hills of Southern…
RICHARD DAWSON RECALLS THE GUEST DIRECTOR WHO TOOK STALAG 13 TOO SERIOUSLY
The studio lights were always a bit too bright for a man who had spent the previous night enjoying the Los Angeles nightlife, but Richard Dawson sat in…
THE FLYING MONOCLE AND THE COOKIE TRAY OF STALAG 13
You know, people always ask me if I had that thing glued to my face, Werner says, leaning back in the plush, velvet chair of the television studio….
THE MOMENT THE MAS*H CAST FINALLY STOPPED PRETENDING TO BE HEROES
Loretta and Jamie sat in the quiet corner of a crowded hotel lobby, the noise of a modern fan convention humming like a distant engine behind them. It…
THE COMMANDANT IN THE CONCERT HALL: WERNER KLEMPERER’S MOST AWKWARD FAN ENCOUNTER
It is a strange thing to sit across from a man who spent years embodied in a stiff, leather-coated caricature of evil, only to find a person of…
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE HILARIOUS REASON THE MASH CAST KEPT BREAKING
Alan Alda leans into the microphone with that familiar, thoughtful squint in his eyes. He is sitting in a modern podcast studio, the kind with soundproof foam and…
POTTER’S LAST TOAST WAS SCRIPTED… BUT HARRY’S TEARS WERE ENTIRELY REAL.
The light in Harry Morgan’s living room was soft and amber that afternoon, the kind of light that seems to invite the past into the present. David Ogden…
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE SURGICAL MASK PRANK THAT HALTED PRODUCTION
I was sitting in a small, soundproofed studio in Manhattan last week, recording an episode for my podcast, Clear + Vivid. The guest was a brilliant neuroscientist, and…