On Sunday, July 20, 2014 3:44:41 PM UTC-4, Michael wrote: > > Although he rocked it as Rockford, he'll always be a Maverick to me. He > was a riverboat-riding Robin Hood, and as much as Robert Conrad's James > West, James Garner's Bret Maverick was the James Bond of cowboys (with > effortless cool, more gambling and less espionage)! In the Maverick family > pantheon, Bret was the wittiest and slickest of the two brothers and had > great "game" with the ladies. As a role model when I was a kid, I always > preferred him to Jack Kelly's grittier Bart, not to mention (in a very cool > Bond connection) Roger Moore's foppish Maverick cousin Beau. And young > women know him as Noah who stood by Gena Rowlands' Allie to the very end > in (sob!) "The Notebook." > >
I watched season one of Maverick on DVD last year, and I've been working my way through season two for a few weeks now. I think Jack Kelly was underrated, but when you watch their episodes back to back, it's easy to see why Garner became a big star and Kelly didn't. Kelly was much more experienced - he'd been a child actor on Broadway, while Garner had only been acting for a few years - but you could sometimes see the effort Kelly put into the role. With Garner, the effort never showed. As someone who grew up with Rockford on Friday nights, it's been wonderful to see how good he was from the very beginning. Never a false moment. And that's the mark of a great actor. -Tim -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
