Your Favorite “Dear Dad” Episode 13 Comments I’m not sure why but late last night I found myself thinking about the “Dear Dad” trilogy of episodes, broadcast during the first two seasons of M*A*S*H. Each of these episodes had Hawkeye writing a letter to his father describing the...
“Private Charles Lamb” “Commander Pierce” “Point of View” “Point of View” “Point of View” “Point of View” Maps A number of maps of the 4077th have been drawn over the years, including one published in the February 28th, 1983 issue ofNewsweek, which celebrated the series final...
Too late, too late, too late.The words screamed in her head. Stop it. Just stop it.“You can’t be dead. You’re not allowed to die.” Mom and Dad had died in a car wreck a week past her eighth birthday. Nana and Pops had taken their turns the year Delaney turned eighteen. E...
He was the priest in the rural Australia diocese of my childhood and my dad’s best friend. When I got to Notre Dame, Father Michael was there as a youth pastor. “I am your guardian angel,” he often declared. The image was an essential element of my faith. He had been present th...
commanding officer, before ducking down in order to not get decapitated by the chopper blades (Sally Kellerman did that stunt herself, by the way). Funny thing about Painless Paul’s prick. The scenes in surgery are pure black comedy, with the cast murmuring and adlibbing while there’s ...
“Justice League” TV pilot. Some 25 years ago, I saw Majel Barrett at a Star Trek convention in Seattle, and she told the group, “One day David Ogden Stiers is going to be cast in a role that is going to cause EVERYONE to be completely blown away and realize how greatly talented...
I’d cast Meg Ryan as Kate (because I love Meg and Kate) and Ellen Page (at the age she was in Juno) as Jenna. Everett is a bit tougher – maybe Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon or Robert Downy Jr, but not because any of them are ‘perfect’ just, once again, because I like ...
He cast around for a hiding place and, quicker than thought, he dashed behind the blue curtain. He swiftly moved away from the portal, pressing himself against the wooden wall so that no one who came through the curtain could immediately see him. Then he inhaled a deep breath and looked ...
A patch of thin, lattice-like wood had been exposed up there in the roof space, and when the sunlight shone through, it cast shadows across the floor. Then Sean could pretend he was a child, avoiding the cracks on the pavement. Here, he could step from light to light, avoiding the ...