Tag: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
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The One Aspect Of M*A*S*H That Writer Larry Gelbart Felt ‘Cheapened’ The Show
Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” is an uproariously funny anti-war masterpiece on par with the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup.” Set at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War in 1951, but released to theaters in 1970, Altman’s movie was unmistakably commenting on the ongoing meat grinder that was the Vietnam War. One second you’re howling…