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Klinger's wedding to Radar

by Lynzee Cadham
Spokane Post-News

VANCOUVER, BC

It's time to pull out one last dress.

Jamie Farr, the actor who portrayed the transvestite Max Klinger on the beloved 1970s-era television show M*A*S*H, is getting ready to marry one of his co-stars from that very same show.

"I tell people that and they say 'You're marrying Loretta ?'" Farr laughs. "She was the only woman on the show, of course!"

Farr's eyes open wide in mock surprise as he imitates the faces of people when they learn that he is not marrying Swit, but another co-star - Gary Burghoff, who played the diminutive, psychic clerk Radar. Neither Farr nor Burghoff has gone public with their homosexuality, and less still with their romance. Now that it is to be official, Farr feels, it's time to set the record straight.

"My character on M*A*S*H was never gay," Farr reveals. "It was an interesting challenge for me. But the fact that he wore dresses made it easier... I objected when had him go back to a regular butch uniform."

Burghoff, who declined to be interviewed for this article, was always more comfortable in the fatigues that were his constant costume on the show, Farr reports. "Although it's true he enjoyed his nude scenes, like in the bath episode - and of course so did I!"

The couple are holding a small and, says Farr, "intimate" wedding in Vancouver, Canada. "We don't want to make a big deal about it," Farr says. "Neither Gary nor I are political people. But we had to come to Canada to have the ceremony we wanted. It's all right, many of our friends are coming."

"I've heard all the jokes," Farr says with a smile. "Wearing dresses on a popular show gave me a thick skin. I suppose as advanced as people get, there will always be jokes about Gary and I."

Farr says the wedding will not change their lives drastically. "It'll be like it was before. We have a house, we work. Gary is a drummer, and he'll practise in the garage. We really lead boring lives!"

The wedding is to take place June 20th at an undisclosed location in Kitsilano, Vancouver.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Uh...

is this for real?

[Lex]

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sounds like BS - I would say 'parody' but it'd have to be funny first