Loretta Swit has died at 87. For a long time, she was the TV version of "Hot Lips" Houlihan on the long-running series "M*A*S*H" (1972-1983) based on the 1970 Robert Altman movie of the same name (where Houlihan had been played by Sally Kellerman)—a movie that was set during the Korean War but which unsubtly critiqued the Vietnam War, still ongoing at the time (the movie was based on a 1968 novel, also titled MASH, by Richard Hooker). I never thought Swit was the prettiest of actresses—she never inspired any youthful lust in me—but she was funny, smart, and talented—yet another fixture from my childhood. From what I gather, her death was from "natural causes." RIP.
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