Chapter 1: Sugar Water, Syringes, and a Sudden Lack of Faith
“It’s not penicillin, Frank,” Hawkeye said, his voice dropping an octave, losing every ounce of its usual Groucho Marx bounce. The words hung in the muggy air of…
Chapter 2: The Black Market Bleeds Red
“Relieved of duty?” Potter repeated the words as if they were spoken in a foreign language. “Horse hockey! I’ve been serving this man’s army since Black Jack Pershing…
Chapter 3: The Bitter Pill of Army Intelligence
“Frank, you absolute, unmitigated idiot!” Hawkeye roared over the sound of the pouring rain, his arm still raised, clutching the live grenade. Frank Burns, entirely soaked, trembling violently,…
ALAN ALDA REVEALS THE DISGUSTING REASON THE MASH CAST STOPPED FILMING
I was sitting in a studio recently, doing one of those long-form interviews where the host is about half my age and looks at me like I’m a…
THE COLD STEEL HELD A SECRET THEY ONLY REALIZED DECADES LATER
It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon in a dimly lit climate-controlled storage facility in Washington, D.C. The air in the room was sterile and perfectly still, worlds away…
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT US THE MEANING OF A SILENT PRAYER
The 4077th was never truly quiet. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, the Malibu ranch was a symphony of chaos. There was the constant thrum of generators, the…
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT US THE MEANING OF A SILENT PRAYER
The 4077th was never truly quiet. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, the Malibu ranch was a symphony of chaos. There was the constant thrum of generators, the…
THE JEEP WAS JUST A PROP… UNTIL THEY SAT IN IT AGAIN
The warehouse in central California was tucked away behind a row of rusted silos, a place where time went to be forgotten. It was filled with the skeletons…
THE FINAL SALUTE WAS SCRIPTED… BUT THE TEARS WERE REAL
It started with a simple question during a quiet dinner in a small corner of Los Angeles. Mike Farrell and Loretta Swit were sitting across from each other,…
THE MAN IN THE DRESS… BUT THE MUD HAD OTHER PLANS
I was sitting in a quiet studio in Los Angeles a few years ago, recording a podcast that was supposed to be a standard retrospective on my career….