THE DAY RADAR OREILLY HEARD SOMETHING MUCH WORSE THAN CHOPPERS
Host: “So Gary, I have to ask. We all grew up watching you tilt your head, freeze the entire camp with a look, and mutter ‘Choppers.’ It became…
THE ARROGANT ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A HUMBLE SYMPHONY
Most people remember the man as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. He was the quintessential blue-blood, a man who carried the weight of a fictional Boston heritage with…
THE SOUND THAT STOPPED LORETTA SWIT IN HER TRACKS FORTY YEARS LATER
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. Mike Farrell adjusted his hat, squinting against the golden glare that bathed the…
JAMIE FARR REVEALS THE MOMENT REAL SOLDIERS SAW HIS WEDDING DRESS
The studio lights were a bit softer than the harsh California sun Jamie Farr remembered from the seventies, but the sparkle in his eyes hadn’t dimmed a bit….
TV’S MOST POMPOUS ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUTH STAYED HIDDEN FOR DECADES
For most of the world, he was the embodiment of upper-crust rigidity. As Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MAS*H, David Ogden Stiers perfected the art of the…
THE WORLD SAW A TOUGH MAJOR… BUT LORETTA SWIT WAS BREAKING.
Loretta sits across from G.W. Bailey, the steam from their coffee rising like the morning mist over the Malibu hills they once called home. The years have been…
THE DAY KLINGER’S HIGH FASHION MET THE REALITY OF WAR
I was sitting on a panel a few years back at a small theater in North Hollywood. There was a young actor in the second row, maybe twenty-two…
THE WORLD’S FAVORITE CORPORAL… BUT THE NOISE WAS TEARING HIM APART
The set of MAS*H was a place of high-stakes paradox. To the millions of people watching at home, it was a sanctuary of humor and heart amidst the…
THEY CALLED IT A COMEDY BUT LORETTA SWIT REMEMBERS THE SILENCE
The air in the temperature-controlled archive was thin and smelled of cedar and sterile preservation. Loretta Swit walked slowly past the rows of hanging garments, her heels clicking…
JAMIE FARR AND LORETTA SWIT REVEAL THE FINALE’S HARDEST MOMENT
The room was quiet, the kind of heavy silence that only happens between people who have known each other for half a lifetime. They were sitting in a…