THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A SOLITARY SYMPHONY
The world knew him as the man who looked down his nose at everyone. In the frantic, dusty world of a mobile army surgical hospital, he was the…
THE SOUND IN THE HILLS MADE JAMIE FARR STOP BREATHING
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon, the kind where the heat of the day…
THEY FOUGHT OVER THE HOT LIGHTS… BUT AT 3AM, ART TURNED REAL
The fluorescent lights of the hotel conference room hummed, a sharp contrast to the soft, golden memories floating through the air. Jamie Farr leaned back, adjusting his cap,…
TV’S MOST FAITHFUL DOCTOR… BUT THE OR PRANK NEARLY BROKE HIM
You know, people always ask me if we were as close as we looked on screen, and I usually tell them that we were actually closer. But what…
THE WORLD SAW THE COLONEL… BUT HE WAS NAMING HIS DEAD FRIENDS
The restaurant was quiet, the kind of place where the shadows are long and the wine is served in heavy crystal. Jamie Farr leaned back in his chair,…
GARY BURGHOFF LEFT THE SET… BUT RADAR NEVER TRULY DEPARTED.
The air in the room was still, the kind of heavy quiet that only happens when two people who have known each other for fifty years finally stop…
THE DAY THE SURGERY FAILED BECAUSE OF A LOUD SNORING SOLDIER
I was sitting in a small, cramped theater in New York a few years ago for a retrospective on television history. There was a young actor in the…
THE TV DOCTOR WHO HAD EVERY ANSWER… BUT HE HID ONE TRUTH
The voice was unmistakable. It was a rich, resonant instrument that felt like it belonged in a cathedral rather than a dusty surgical tent in Korea. When David…
THE CHOPPERS STOPPED FLYING DECADES AGO… BUT HIS HANDS STILL TREMBLE.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was a quiet afternoon in Malibu Creek State Park. Two men sat…
THE MESSAGE IN THE STONES HID A TRUTH ONLY THEY KNEW
The light in the room was soft, the kind of amber glow that makes everyone look a little younger than the calendar says they are. Loretta sat across…