The Tribune from Coshocton, Ohio • 71

Why The SfnflSH-in9 Success Of Jamie (Klinger) Farr television, there's only so much else Farr can do outside of M'A'S'H. When the M'A'S'H season is over, he does road shows of plays like and he will be co-starring in Murder Can Hurt You, an ABC-TV movie scheduled for later this month that spoofs television's famous detective characters. And there's a major By fTlark Goodman Rlas, it seems as if Corporal Max Klinger is never going to get out of Korea. Heaven and Douglas MacArthur only know, it's not for want of trying. Over the past eight years that the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital has been at war.

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"Well, some will ask, "why do Catholics believe in Purgatory?" "Where is Purgatory in the Bible?" "And if it isn't in the Bible, how can it be God's word?" "And if it isn't God's word, how does it merit belief?" Fair questions. Honest questions. Questions often asked in the kindest tones by those who are not critical but simply puzzled. We would like to try to answer these questions, to explain in some way at least why Catholics believe in Purgatory, in this state of purification for those who die free of serious sin but not yet quite ready for heaven. Write for our new pamphlet: Purgatory, Doctrine of Comfort and Hope.

No one will call on you. FREE Mail Coupon Today! Please send Free Pamphlet entitled "Purgatory-Doctrine of Comfort and Hope' This offer it limited to ont free pamphlet. tion lavonte imitation trans-vestite has tried everything from flagpole sitting to hang-gliding across the Sea of Japan to gus- sying up as a gypsy queen and demanding to be sent home to rule his people. No luck, not even when he tried to eat Farr and Colonel Potter's jeep. Sorry about that.

Max; M'A'S'H is just too popular those mad and merry medicos are coming back in September for a ninth season, with an option for a tenth in 1981. (The show has already lasted more than four-times longer than that 1950's war itself.) And, of course, no one could be more pleased about it than Jamie Farr. 43, whose rhinocerotic nose no number of gossamer veils and feather boas can hide. After years of batting his brains out in Hollywood, Fan-has found his niche as the stogie-chomping, hairy-chested corporal determined to get out of the Army at any price especially when his gowns are marked down to cost. Still, with the departure 1 last year of Radar O'Reilly I (Gary Burghoff), Winger's assumption oi me company clerk job has meant that he ow goes to chow in ermine and pearls less frequently Jhan in days past.

"It's been a (wonderful season," Farr (ays. "It's allowed me to build the character, not just Jounce around in sight gags." Of course, given the brutal me demands of series I Mark Goodman is a frequent con mbutor to Family Weekly Cpl. Klinger: Dressed to the nines; buefcing for a Sec. 8. of the cast who has actually served a tour of duty in Korea (postwar).

"Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat," he says of his struggling days. "It's like a recurring dream because I still remember the days when 1 was hoping to make enough money to buy a can of tuna for dinner. 1 think what has happened to me isn't real, but fake. I'm still frightened it will end." Fan's now famed role of the skirted corporal bucking for a Section Eight discharge began as a one-day assignment back in 1973. but the ingenious Farr parlayed his performance into a permanent slot.

The result: no more cans of tuna. The Fans now live in a $450,000 house in California's ritzy Bell Canyon Estates. What limited social life Farr has time to enjoy often revolves around his own family people invite me someplace for a weekend, I just take the kids or the tightly knit M'A'S'H, gang. Farr admits that "it'll be traumatic when M'A'S'H finally comes to an end." As he wistfully puts it: "None of us will ever experience anything quite like it again." Still, there are many magic moments left, perhaps even to rival Hot Lips Houlihan's TV wedding, when Klinger, the matron of honor and gorgeous in a silk organza gown of robin's-egg blue, was finally reduced to tears. "I was overcome by emotion," he explained on the air.

"I had lent Hot Lips my wedding dress, and she looked so beautiful in rjg FAMILY WEEKLY, May 18, 1980 9J 35 FM-75 -State SERVICE COLUH1DUS Conn. 06521 Name Address City CATHOLIC INFORMATION Kill GUTS of P.O. Box 1971, New Haven. wife Joy: No more tuna fish. project in the works for Farr when M'A'S'H finally does shut down the lead role as The Schnozz in a planned Broadway production of Clayton, Jackson Durante.

(The late Durante once actually complimented Farr lavishly by telling him that he had a "Danny Thomas i veryone knows that I Sunset and Wilshire are boulevards of broken I dreams, but few stars have had a rockier road than Jamie Farr, who, like Klinger, really is a Lebanese (born Jameel Farah) from Toledo, Ohio. Farr spent an awfully long time grinding out a subsistence living on Hollywood's fringes. He got his first film shot in 1955 as San-tini, the borderline defective in the classic Blackboard Jungle and then didn't get another part for over a year. Things got even tougher when Fan- married model Joy Richards and began to raise a family (two children, Jonas Samuel, now 11, and Yvonne Elizabeth-Rose, 8). He was employed variously as a postal clerk, delivery boy, military surplus-store salesman and as a workhand on a chinchilla ranch.

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