{"id":57109,"date":"2017-01-19T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gr_terry_mattingly-william_christopher-the_real_man_behind_that_sympatheti\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:00:43","slug":"gr_terry_mattingly-william_christopher-the_real_man_behind_that_sympatheti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57109","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Terry Mattingly&#8211;William Christopher-The real man behind that sympathetic priest on M*A*S*H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To prepare for his signature role, Christopher interviewed priests to &#8220;help get the tone right.&#8221; Finally, he created a Los Angeles-area panel of priests to help him deal with questions about how a Jesuit would have handled some rites, and tricky war-zone issues, in the era before the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to show respect for the priesthood, while avoiding what he called &#8220;embarrassed priest situations and celibacy jokes.&#8221; It was especially sobering to learn how to handle rushed deathbed confessions and Last Rites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to humanize Mulcahy as much as possible, although I knew there was a certain danger there since he is a priest. But I felt there was an even greater danger if we let him turn into a stereotype,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmatt.net\/columns\/2017\/1\/11\/the-real-man-behind-that-sympathetic-priest-on-mash\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;M.A.S.H&#39; Star William Christopher&#39;s Death Certificate Officially Revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UB03hA2KcZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/UB03hA2KcZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3VZJ8AqV5I\">pic.twitter.com\/3VZJ8AqV5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Womanista (@Womanista) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Womanista\/status\/818911516829302784\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To prepare for his signature role, Christopher interviewed priests to &#8220;help get the tone right.&#8221; Finally, he created a Los Angeles-area panel of priests to help him deal with questions about how a Jesuit would have handled some rites, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57109\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,133,435,93,154,184,177,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-movies-television","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}