{"id":1532,"date":"2025-06-08T20:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:59:28","slug":"mash-costars-alan-alda-and-mike-farrell-pay-tribute-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"\u2018M*A*S*H\u2019 Costars Alan Alda and Mike Farrell Pay Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alda, now 89, starred Benjamin Franklin \u201cHawkeye\u201d Pierce on M*A*S*H, while Swit played Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan. The pair were the only two actors to appear in both the pilot and finale of the war series, which aired for 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983. In his tribute post, Alda recalled how Swit put her all into the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe worked hard in showing the writing staff how they could turn the character from a one joke sexist stereotype into a real person \u2013 with real feelings and ambitions,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe celebrated the day the script came out listing her character not as Hot Lips, but as Margaret. Loretta made the most of her time here.\u201dMike Farrell, who joined the cast in season 4 as B.J. Hunnicutt, also paid his respects to Swit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Alda and Farrell, the only remaining M*A*S*H cast members still alive are Jamie Farr and Gary Burghoff.News broke on Friday that Swit passed away. Swit\u2019s publicist told The Hollywood Reporter that Swit\u2019s cause of death appears to be due to natural causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alda, now 89, starred Benjamin Franklin \u201cHawkeye\u201d Pierce on M*A*S*H, while Swit played Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan. The pair were the only two actors to appear in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}