Sally Kellerman

M*A*S*H’s original Hot Lips Houlihan, whose new CD is titled Sally, recalls making the 1985 TV film Murder Among Friends with the late great Leslie Nielsen—who teased her with fake flatulence. “I’d always looked up to him. I thought he was a wonderful, serious actor,” she tells Milling About host Robin Milling. “We were doing this play for film in New York. The first day we were getting ready to shoot he comes into my dressing room with some other people from the play and suddenly there's this big resounding fart and we all go, ‘Ha ha ha,’ and out he goes,” adds Sally, who’s also got a singing gig at The Metropolitan Room in New York. “First I felt sorry for him and then I was sickened. I never wanted to see him again. By the end of the day, he’d left and we were finished filming and someone said it was a fart machine. He was perfectly willing to have me think—and anyone else—that he was ill!”