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…
THE SOUND THAT BROUGHT THE ENTIRE MASH CAST TO THEIR KNEES.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Santa Monica mountains, casting long, amber shadows across the vintage airfield. Loretta Swit sat wrapped in…
THE DAY THE WEDDING DRESS TOOK OVER THE RANCH
The fan at the back of the crowded convention hall leaned into the microphone, her voice trembling slightly with excitement. Jamie, of all the dozens of outfits and…
THE REFINED ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS GREATEST TRUTH REMAINED UNSPOKEN FOR DECADES
To the world, he was the embodiment of upper-crust rigidity. He was the man who brought a portable record player to a war zone so he could listen…
THE DAY THE DRESS DEFEATED THE ARMY
It is funny how a single question from a stranger can just rip the lid off a memory you haven’t thought about in decades. I was sitting on…