{"id":1782,"date":"2025-06-12T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:12:17","slug":"loretta-swit-aka-hot-lips-houlihan-on-mash-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Loretta Swit AKA \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on \u2018M*A*S*H\u2019 dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loretta Swit, best known for her role as Major Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on&nbsp;<em>M<\/em>A<em>S<\/em>H*, has passed away at 87 at her home in New York City. Her publicist confirmed she likely died of natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-50.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14077\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swit and Alan Alda were the longest-serving cast members of&nbsp;<em>M<\/em>A<em>S<\/em>H*, which ran from 1972 to 1983. Over 11 seasons, Swit helped shape the show\u2019s deeper themes, including PTSD, sexism, and racism. She pushed to evolve her character from a one-dimensional stereotype into a strong, complex woman \u2014 and insisted on being called \u201cMargaret,\u201d not \u201cHot Lips.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Passaic, New Jersey, to Polish immigrant parents, Swit studied acting and worked in theater before moving to TV in the late 1960s. Though initially unhappy with how Houlihan was written, she tirelessly worked with writers to make the role more respectful and realistic, especially for women in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loretta Swit, best known for her role as Major Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on&nbsp;MASH*, has passed away at 87 at her home in New York City. Her&#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-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}