THE QUIET PRIEST HELD A TRUTH THE CAMERAS NEVER SAW
The restaurant was quiet, the kind of place where memories feel safe enough to come out of hiding. William Christopher sat across from Loretta Swit, the two of…
JAMIE FARR AND THE DAY THE HOOP SKIRT DEFEATED THE ARMY
Jamie Farr leans back in the plush leather chair of the studio, a wide, nostalgic grin spreading across his face. The interviewer had just quoted his famous line…
THE JEEP WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PROP… UNTIL THE ENGINE STARTED.
The sun was hitting the Malibu hills at that particular slant that turns the dust into a golden haze. It was the kind of heat that stays in…
JAMIE FARR REVEALS THE HILARIOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE KLINGER DRESSES
The convention hall was packed. You could feel the heat from the stage lights reflecting off the rows of fans. I was sitting there, looking out at a…
TELEVISION’S MOST REFINED ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS A QUIET REBELLION
The world knew him by a very specific cadence. It was a voice that dripped with the ivy-covered walls of Harvard and the cold, stiff upper lip of…
THEY THOUGHT THE WAR ENDED IN 1983. UNTIL THEY HEARD THE ENGINE.
The museum was tucked away in a quiet corner of a warehouse district, far from the neon lights of Hollywood. Inside, the air smelled of stale oil, old…
THEY TOLD JAMIE FARR TO KEEP HIS EYES OPEN… BUT HE COULDN’T.
Rosalind Chao remembers the heat more than anything else. It was a specific kind of California heat that felt like it belonged in another hemisphere, a thick, dusty…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER LOST A WAR WITH THE MALIBU MUD
I was sitting on a stage in North Carolina a few years back for one of those nostalgia conventions. The room was packed with people wearing olive drab…
THE SCREEN’S MOST PIOUS PRIEST… BUT HIS HARDEST PRAYER WAS PRIVATE
The dusty hills of Malibu Creek State Park often felt a world away from the reality of 1970s Los Angeles. On the set of the most popular show…
THE SOUND WAS JUST A CUE… UNTIL IT STOPPED THE WORLD.
The sun over the Santa Monica Mountains has a way of bleaching the color out of everything it touches. It is the kind of heat that doesn’t just…