Richard Hornberger was a gifted surgeon whose memoire of his experiences, "MASH: A Novel of Three Army Doctors", became the basis for the hit 1970 Robert Altman film. Hornberger told Variety that he liked the movie based on his book, and though he didn't like Donald Sutherland's long hair, the movie was a pretty accurate representation of what happened. But when the tv show appeared two years later on CBS, Hoernberger absolutely hated it. He particularly hated the whiny left-leaning Hawkeye, and decided to drop out of the whole project, in terms of being an ongoing creative consultant for the show. After the book and movie came out, two of his friends who spent time with him in Korea, Cathy and Dale Drake; reached out to him. They were interested in telling their stories just like Hornberger had. Hornberger had dropped out of the developing MASH franchise at this point; although he continued to write his MASH sequels; there were 15 MASH book sequels in all! But he no longer wanted to cooperate with 20th Century Fox, Robert Altman, Gene Reynolds and the other MASH TV and film producers, due to what he saw as Hawkeye's wimpy, liberal personality. The Drakes were very interested in talking to the creators of the new tv show though; so Hornberger connected them with Gene Reynolds; who then began a series of conversations which were the basis for the MASH tv show. So while Hornberger was really the main writer and the inspiration of the movie; the Drakes were really the main writers of and the inspiration for the tv show. This is why the tv show and movie are so different; they are reflections of the Drakes' and Hornberger's starkly different personalities. And this is why there are characters in the the tv show (like Klinger) that were not in the original book and movie; and vice versa. Klinger was not in the book and the movie most likely because Hornberger didn't know him, and Duke didn't make it into the tv show because the Drake's didn't know him. Margaret was in all the incarnations since everybody knew her, or her prototype, Ruth Dickson. In that way the tv show has a distinctly different flavor and feeling than the movie does.
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