Completely OT, but for the "old-timers"

[Beau Petard]

Sorry to veer away from football, but SWMBO just informed me that a dear friend of her Mom died a couple months ago. Without using actual names (to protect the innocent), the lady who passed was the wife of the guy who Alan Alda and the MASH producers used as the basis for the character B.J. Hunnicutt. SWMBO and her sisters grew up in the same NC neighborhood with the "Hunnicutts", and played as kids with their kids. Mrs. Hunnicutt came up to visit SWMBO's Mom in E.C. a number of years ago (well after the Doc passed), and was quite the charming lady - evidently she was a Master Gardener and just a really nice person.

I realize this is not Ravens related, but I know some of youse guys are old farts and remember MASH...

Mods, forgive me! ;)

[lobachevsky]

Remember MASH??!?!?! Sacre dieux! I saw the original movie in a thee-ay-ter, first run!

[TheSpiderWebb]

Hey MASH ended before I was even born, but I still enjoyed it, the movie in particular. Young people are people too :(

[AirFlacco]

Who can forget MASH. Even the young guys show know about it. Re-run's are on cable every
night and the actors get royalties every time it's re-shown.


I saw the original movie in London and the place went wild.

Speaking of football, it was hilarious in the movie when they had a football game between
two MASH units and Hawkeye's team was smoking weed and passed it down the bench.
LOndoners loved it. Ben Davidson of the Raiders was the one smoking and passing it down
to Tim Brown of the Colts. Brown played a ringer Hawkeye's team used in the movie to beat
the other team.

Donald Southerland played the original Hawkeye and Elliott Gould played BJ' role. Also
funny was when Gould met Hawkeye for the first time and Hawkeye gave him a martini
and Gould asked for an olive.

Hawkeye said, do you know where the hell we are. We're in the middle of Korea and you
ask for an olive for a maritini you're lucky to get. Then Gould pulls out a jar of olives
and dumps one in the drink.

Alan Alda, who looks so old now, see pic in link played Hawkeye in the TV series and the show became such an American institution there's a display about it in the Smithsonian Institute.

The guys who played Radar and Father Mulcahy in the TV show also played the same role in
the Altman movie. Here's the cast of the TV series.

http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Klinger's role was always hilarious. He was always trying to get out on a Section 8 by wearing
woman's clothes. One day there was a visiting General and Klinger was on gaurd duty to
meet him totally naked. BJ looked at him and sarcasticly said "You're disgusting."

When I was drafted and went for my induction physical there were guys who actually showed
up wearing woman's clothes to get out. The Army didn't buy it in real life either-lol.


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[moose10101]

Donald Southerland played the original Hawkeye and Elliott Gould played BJ' role.

There was no 'BJ' in the movie. Gould played Trapper John.

The guys who played Radar and Father Mulcahy in the TV show also played the same role in the Altman movie. Here's the cast of the TV series.

William Christopher (Mulcahy) was not in the movie.

Are you old enough to remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Gabe]

The characters name in the original movie who played the Chaplin was " Dego Red"

[Florida Art]

Actually, Elliot Gould played "Trapper John". B.J. Honeycutt was an invention of the (vastly inferior) tv series.

Sally Kellerman was way better as "Hotlips" too.

[JohnBKistler]

Actually, Elliot Gould played "Trapper John". B.J. Honeycutt was an invention of the (vastly inferior) tv series.

Sally Kellerman was way better as "Hotlips" too.

A TV show...especially one made for the broadcast networks in the 70s...is always going to be inferior to a movie.

As it was, MASH was cutting edge for it's time. Killing off Colonel Blake took some guts. The shows ratings reflected its popularity.

EDIT: Wikipedia has some interesting info on that final scene with Colonel Blake:

When McLean Stevenson decided to leave the show at the end of the third season, his character was scripted to be discharged and sent home. However, in one of television's most shocking surprises, in the final scene of his last episode it is reported that Blake’s plane has been shot down over the Sea of Japan and that he has been killed.

The script pages with the scene were handed over by the producers, Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, only minutes before filming, so none of the cast except for Alan Alda knew about that development until shortly before Gary Burghoff was told to go in and report Blake's death. Until then, as far as anyone knew, they were going to get a message that Blake had arrived safely home. This was deliberately planned so that the emotions shown by the actors during that scene would be as real as possible, and it worked well, so much so that during the second take of the scene one of the extras accidentally dropped a surgical instrument on the floor, which made a loud clank and was left in the final edit.

[MarkS]

Actually, Elliot Gould played "Trapper John". B.J. Honeycutt was an invention of the (vastly inferior) tv series.

Yea, the OP meant Trapper John, not BJ Honeycutt.

In WWII, John Lyday was a WWII B-24 gunner and radioman. After the war he got his medical degree, then later served as a combat surgeon in Korea. He was stationed with the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital along with a fellow surgeon H. Richard Hornberger, the author of the book M.A.S.H.

He passed away in Greensboro, NC in 1999. His wife just passed a few months ago. RIP to them both.

As a side note, H. Richard Hornberger (AKA Richard Hooker) absolutely detested the M.A.S.H, the TV show. He claimed it was because his book (and the original movie, which he liked a great deal) were intended to be a work of humor, not an anti-war screed, and specifically that Alan Alda's portrayal of Hawkeye (a character he largely based on himself) was unacceptably unfaithful to the original character.

Of course, the fact that he sold the TV rights to arguably television's most successful TV show ever for a few hundred dollars might have been a factor too.

[mmi16]

Remember MASH??!?!?! Sacre dieux! I saw the original movie in a thee-ay-ter, first run!

Ditto!

[edtude]

Sorry to veer away from football, but SWMBO just informed me that a dear friend of her Mom died a couple months ago. Without using actual names (to protect the innocent), the lady who passed was the wife of the guy who Alan Alda and the MASH producers used as the basis for the character B.J. Hunnicutt. SWMBO and her sisters grew up in the same NC neighborhood with the "Hunnicutts", and played as kids with their kids. Mrs. Hunnicutt came up to visit SWMBO's Mom in E.C. a number of years ago (well after the Doc passed), and was quite the charming lady - evidently she was a Master Gardener and just a really nice person.

I realize this is not Ravens related, but I know some of youse guys are old farts and remember MASH...

Mods, forgive me! ;)

Old Timers! I resemble that statement. I was and still am a huge M.A.S.H. fan. Was very sad when it finally went off the air although it was getting kind of old and stale. Yes in the movie Brown's name was Spearchucker Jones, if I am not mistaken it was due to his track and field prowess in college for the back story. Great show

[Ravens44]

MASHS spells HAMS! What's the other "S" for? It stands for Salt. We throw that away!!!

On your BIG FAT FLAT ENDTABLE HEAD, Beau!!!

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How do you like me now??!!!

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I FEEL BETTER NOW!!!