w-lfs-n, meet two months ago, and last month, with questionable pictures, even. C'mon, keep up.
Hence "proud tradition". This article (which has more pictures attached) is new.
Do they have termites across the pond? I hope nothing bad happens to his broomstick.
I do see the girl's problem. Even though I'm very aware of the artifices of acting I'd more than half-way expect James Garner to be an amiable con-artist in real life; that persona has been engraved and re-engraved on the public ever since 1957.
Pardon for going all Constance Rourke on you, but while Garner could never not be Maverick, he could develop that persona, turn it around, change sides etc. I'd say Rockford is the more ingraved image, not least because it's production values and pace keep it more watchable now.
American stars must always "play" themselves, as she said long ago, but often deliberately do interesting variations, in the last generation or so always ultimately including intentional self-parody.
I should have said "me" instead of "public". Garner is Maverick 'cause I imprinted on him early, Rockford is a variation on that role to my mind. Again, I think it's a generational gap.
I agree, they can and do play with who they are, and Wm. Shatner is a good example of the self-parody.
In any event, changes in roles can be jarring if the actor is strongly identified with one. For example, I kept seeing Robert Lansing as General Savage even tho' he was playing Robert L. Lewis in a stage production for the AFL-CIO way back when. It's got to be annoying to them if they're trying to be actors instead of celebrities.
The guy who plays his evil uncle in the Potter movies plays his shrink in the play. I think England has the right idea, having only fifteen actors in the country, and having them all be in everything.
Have you been to London, ogged? It's pretty small. Only like 25,000 people.
It's true. And almost all of us have relatives who live in rambling country vicarages. (Except Jim, the Token Black Guy. We believe he plays in a steel band. Don't knock it; Jim is the only man in London with a real job. The rest of us don't seem to do anything very much. The occasional antique shop, maybe.)
rambling country vicarages That's where, along with the rustic inns, all those locked-room murders take place, right? Are tourists advised to leave their rooms unlocked?
(We've had tickets to London from just before 9/11, and real-life keeps getting in the way. I *have* to see Churchill's bunker and the Imperial War Museum before I become completely senile or they're declared off-limits by the E.U. because they encourage violence.)
I was a fan of Twelve O'Clock High, the first drama where actors conveyed emotion by how they tore off oxygen masks, and I can hear the theme in my mind now. I remember Lansing in a good mftv of Life On The Mississippi in the seventies, he never had real George Reeves problems.
Is he Sherri(sp?) Lansing's dad?
I think England has the right idea, having only fifteen actors in the country, and having them all be in everything.
This brings back fond memories of "spot the recurring actor" in episodes of the X-Files, which was filmed in Vancouver and had some sort of Canadian-government mandate in their contract about hiring Canadians first, or preferentially. Some weeks it really did seem as if the Vancouver professional acting community was made up of about 100 people.
10: I can't find any connection between Robert and Sherri. The research did turn up his stint as Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct and his wife Teddy (Gena Rowlands). I've got to quit this before I OD on nostalgia.
There are some British actors who seem to have an unearthly hold over the minds of casting directors. Pete Postlethwaite, for example. What sane man would think "Now, we need to cast a major supporting character: Mr Kobayashi, the sinister Japanese right hand man of the invisible drug baron Keyser Soze. Which actor would be best? Of course; the completely non-Japanese Yorkshireman with the face like a bag full of spanners."
13: Since Mr. Kobayashi did not actually exist, I don't see the problem there. You could even consider it a clue to the central mystery of the story.
Way to ruin the film, Hamilton.
Anyway, of course he existed. Edie Finneran was working with him.
We've had tickets to London from just before 9/11, and real-life keeps getting in the way
Dear Biohazard,
Shyyyeaahhhh right,
Love,
The London Tourist Board.
PS: Cluck cluck! Chicken!
Robert Lansing was way cool.
Two fond memories:4D Man where he could walk thru walls;and the Star Trek episode/failed pilot, with Teri Garr in Go-Go dancer mode.
But his career credits at IMDB just break my heart. Why did Leslie Nielsen make it and Lansing not?
Cluck cluck! Chicken!
Nah. Just assorted health stuff mixed in with a year of unemployment, and like that. I'm not even worried about the fearsome Brit cooking and the mad cows roaming the streets.
the Star Trek episode/failed pilot, with Teri Garr in Go-Go dancer mode
I loved that, with the cat.
Love,
The London Tourist Board.
PS: Cluck cluck! Chicken!
The tourist board has actually adopted "Visit London - If You're Man Enough, You Big Foreign Poof" as its slogan for 2007.
Is it possible to visit the school where people learn those Monty Python accents? I'm really impressed with people who can learn to talk like that.
22:Uninformative link, unless you can imagine that her skirt stops at about the bottom of the picture frame.
Here is Garr in a micro
unless you can imagine that her skirt stops at about the bottom of the picture frame
I usually imagine Teri Garr without a skirt, myself.
I usually imagine Teri Garr without a skirt, myself.
You know you are old when....
How different Teri's career from say, Helen Mirren's, from having started in similar places! Talent is probably part of the answer but national culture is too. She might have been our queen; she can touch my scrofulous face and heal me for sure.
You're putting words in my mouth.
A staple of my teenage TV consumption/quality family time was Friday night mysteries on KTEH, aka the Brits have taken over our local PBS affiliate. Besides the PBS Mystery! KETEH would go out of its way to get its own slate of British murder stories--good stuff like Taggart, Lovejoy, Bergerac, etc.. It was, invariably, the same 100-200 actors, and frequently we'd see the same face twice in the same night. One person would call out an actors other known affiliations and then we'd all nod, sagely, "It's a small island." It's been kind of cool to see those same people rise up to prominence in things like LOTR and Harry Potter.
Someone let their 13-year-old go to see Equus???
Goodness. The UK really *is* a different country. I think that might be a criminal offense over here.
I wasn't much older than 13 when I saw the Richard Burton movie.
The UK really *is* a different country.
No, the American federal system allows a degree of fictional autonomy to some of our more servile possessions. They get to have a royal family, have verious officials wearing funny costumes, talk funny, send their kids off to porno shows, and so on. Sort of the way Pacific Islanders go around almost naked.
32: Hush, colonial boy. The sahib-log are talking.
