And there’s a reason: he was cool in the seventies — but in a libertarian kinda way. And being cool in the seventies wasn’t easy. What with ponchos and platform disco boots and such.
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The Other McCain had this yesterday. http://theothermccain.com/2011/11/02/james-garner-when-tv-did-not-suck/ I even mentioned you were a big fan.
I like most characters Jim Garner’s played. Perhaps because Jim Garner hasn’t gone out of his way to make his particular political inclinations widely know (to me, at least). This clip is fantastic.
Guilty pleasure: I watch “Support Your Local Sheriff” almost every time I see it in the program guide. Or I DVR it if there’s a sporting event I know Mrs. Darth wants to see.
Yeah, I saw it about a week ago. Kat Mckinley just reminded me of it.
So now you’re making fun of ponchos? You’re a bad, bad man.
I like the old Maverick series, myself.
Which, sweet, come to think of it.
Yeah, I remember that episode, vaguely. Sunshine or Moonbeam or whatever her name was supposed to be was a seriously annoying “flower child”. Me, I’d have decked her.
Face it, it was because he was one of the first “Outlaw!” to make it.
The writers were having a little fun with the flower child there. No self-respecting hippy chick in the 70’s would be caught dead eating a hamburger. Also, she is not wearing a headband of a peace sign necklace. I miss Rockford.
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Best Garner soliloquy is in The Americanization of Emily when he scolds the Julie Andrews character about her reflex anti-Americanism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyMRz1hbb4M
Sorry I don’t know how to shorten URLs
Tim Allen has a series on ABC, Last Man Standing, with quite a few non-leftist laugh lines. His character even mentioned this week that he regretted his Obama vote (hey, I never said they were staunch).
Whitney, alas, appears to have gone back to the casting couch.
I’m all about Jim Rockford. The coolest place in the world when I was growing up was the barbershop around the corner from my grandparents in East Oak Lane. My uncle had this crazy job where he would fly all over the world for a cosmetics company on honest-to-god jet planes. When he was home, he’d run by our house, pick me up and we’d make the rounds of his girlfriends. All of them were stewardesses and counter girls, back when that meant something, I shit you not. When he was done using me as a pawn, it was back to the barbershop and I’d watch Rockford, the Flyers, golf, and Action News, and he’d sit in the barber chair, get a shave, drink scotch, shoot the shit and smoke cigars. When it started getting dark, we’d jump in his Grand Prix (love the 70’s Pontiacs) with the bucket seats so deep I couldn’t see out the window, we’d drive to the 7-11 on the corner, he’d get me a Slurpee and we’d walk to my house. He’d drop me off with my mom, pretend to forget my name, turn down dinner because he “had a date” and he’d be on his way. That’s what I think of when I watch Rockford to this day. I can smell the cigars, talc, booze and Aqua-Velva.
Cooler than cool.
That sounds like a man who could rack up a few legal settlements, were he born 20 years later. Lucky bastard.
Worst blind date ever.
that missing “d” is bothering me
I don’t remember who said it, but life is not about finding yourself, it is about making yourself.
I wish they would do reruns. I saw the show a few times, and they were good, but I didn’t watch much TV those days.
I wonder if you can buy seasons? Hang on…
$32 a season. I better do it a couple at a time…
Me TV does reruns and also Hulu.
Pablo, that must be some of that fancy internet shit I don’t know about, and probably can’t get ‘cuz I have hughesnet and am only allowed 200mb of bandwidth a day. That’s good for about 15 minutes of youtube…
“hughesnet and am only allowed 200mb of bandwidth a day. That’s good for about 15 minutes of youtube”
we are the 99% /sarc
Me TV is actual TV that’s on my cable system. You can fuhgettabout Hulu, tho.
Then there’s Netflix.
Jim Rockford never wore platform disco boots.. That was Huggy Bear on S&H…
“The Rockford Files”! What a great show! That show, along with “Mannix” and “Hawaii Five-Oh” were favorits of mine back in the day. And because of Hulu and Netflix, I can stream them any time I like.
The great thing about this modern age is that through Amazon, eBay, Hulu, Netflix, et al., I can have a second childhood that’s just like my first. No convertibles, gold chains, and open shirts for me. No, instead it’s all the comics and TV I can recall, delieved by AT&T, Comcast, UPS, and FedEx.
We live in an age of miracles.
Well, I went ahead and bought the seasons 1 and 5 dvd’s from amazon.
I might loan them out to a friend when I’ve had a chance to watch them myself…