Where Are They Now Australia - Loretta Swit (MASH)

[sgrroiii]

Scary lips.

[Westwerld]

@ion010101 When it "changed" it became a vehicle for liberalness, I think Alan Alda had a lot to do with it becoming political. I didnt like it after the first couple of yours.

[snara98]

MASH

[sean2me]

Fantastic, so many great memories of watching that show with my family. It always brings me back!

[tabby4307]

Poor frank everyone picked on him no wonder he was so mean to everybody

[ReverendSyn]

@tabby4307 True. I felt sorry for him as well. Sure he's difficult, but if you got treated like shit constantly you'd be pretty dour too.

Tease a dog, don't be suprised when he nips at you. Hawkeye and Trapper werent particularly sterling characters themselves

I always felt Frank's wife died shortly after his return and he and Margaret wound up back together after the war.

[MultiSpookyboo]

The writers wouldnt let Frank Burns be anything but stupid on that show his character was never allowed to change at all I think that was unfair

[hogne]

What Loretta Swit refuses to realise is that she actually played two totally different characters on the show. The first one was Hot Lips, the slut (the character I loved), and the second was Maaaaargareth. There is no way to go from seeing a late season episode and then see an episode from one of the early seasons and manage to see them as the same character. It wasn't an evolution, it was a too big of a change to be believable. 

[curst666]

@hogne She evolved from young girl nurse, a military dreamer, a sucker for powerful or seemingly powerful men, a dependent naive nurse in search of power; into an independent, loving, care giving, brilliant woman! Her transformation is by far THE BEST in any TV show till date! Not even Friends matches up to what she started as, and finished as!

[Ringo84]

@hogne No...the evolutions were true to the Margaret character. She was the same Margaret Houlihan in season 11 that she was in season 1 - only a bit older and a bit wiser.

[Kaalec]

@hogne You make a valid point, but I would suggest that the crucible of war can create such revolutions as long as the person has a reasonable natural intelligence.

[66limelight]

@hogne Excellent point on L Switt. Mash was best in the early years: Hawkeye and Trapper were a great team. Frank and Hot Lips were the idiot and brown noser. Henry, the CO didn't have a clue what was going on. Clinger, the transvestite. Mash was great when they were making fun of the army. It steadily declined when Alda took over the writing and started taking shots at the army and expressing his political, anti war and anti army views.

[WEBTRAIN]

in 1970's I worked for SBC telco, I met Fonda and some of the crew when they were filiming Race The Devil/I saw Lorretta and other actors/the country store corner Potranco/Tezel where they filmed is gone now & we had no payphones in this area,,2,4 & 8 party lines..I know I worked area for years:payphone in the movie was a prop: I saw the film crew almost everyday for a week or so,ate lunch watching them act including Lorreta/ I see parts Castroville, Tx / I knew areas/roads watching the movie

[stillpunk1419]

i have to say i worked with loretta switt on a movie and she was so rude and so arrogant -- i was crushed -- really not nice at all

[somewhatlongdong]

When they referred to her as "hot lips" were they referring to her pussy lips?

[tryithere]

@somewhatlongdong Snatchurally.

[Rat69Fink]

ozzie TV is the pits,seriuosly!

[Rat69Fink]

whos the bald headed rude fukc??

an interview means let the guest talk shat for brains:

[skywalker040]

The interview on the part of Ms. Swit was very... weird imo. She didn't really address the questions, I mean, she did, but in a way that was just slightly off topic.

[samsudinabubakar]

How much i missed the series....i was small in the 70s..!

[dramaticguy]

Of course Loretta Swit was also the first Christine Cagney in the pilot movie.

She wanted to do the TV series but couldn't be released from MASH but she stayed with MASH which was great and after Meg Foster did six episodes, we got Sharon Gless as Chris Cagney,all worked great.

[jasonwalkabout]

yeh i would still do her

[53bigmikejones]

Hot Lips was a class act. 

[beatlequeen06]

The male interviewer calling Frank a shmuck made me lmao.

[tmh72385]

This is the first footage of Ms. Swit I've seen post-MASH. Sometimes she seems like just a regular aging lady, but every now and again, you see hot-lips come out and give a line. WOOT to the aussies for keeping up with these lost stars of american TV history. I only hope people who come after me can find peace and wisdom in MASH, the show that changed american television.

[KarenProudArmyMom]

Such a great show. I still tear up when I see the finale after all these years.

[xenathegoat]

How true, what Loretta says about the characters evolving. That's part of what makes the show so great.