Posted on 06/24/2017 6:50:25 AM PDT by 4everontheRight
I’ll bet he wasn’t a big lib back during the Rockford Files days. I don’t much remember Hollywood getting too political back then...I mean I know they were but nothing like the stuff you see today.
All episodes of 12 O’Clock High (tv series), Combat, and “The Prisoner” are on Youtube.
Google “James Garner politics”, and see what you get. Here’s one small sample:
“Garner is what he calls a ‘bleeding-heart liberal,’ having participated in the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and later advocating for a number of progressive causes. He voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, he writes, but never cast a ballot for a Republican again. He voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, and calls him “the most intelligent presidential candidate we’ve ever had. I think Obama runs a close second.”
“He’s also critical about Charlton Heston — either as an actor or defender of civil rights. As Garner describes it, Heston appointed himself leader of the Hollywood group that went to the March on Washington, and even tamped down a suggestion by Marlon Brando that the performers chain themselves to the Lincoln Memorial. But the next year, Heston switched parties and backed Barry Goldwater.”
I really like the old “Rockford Files” - good writing, film, and acting.
Almost wish I didn’t know that...LOL!
The fact that he marched in the 1963 civil rights stuff is enough for me to despise him.
Along with MeTV and Antenna TV, I like INSP. Their shows include: Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Dr. Quinn, Matlock, Big Valley, High Chaparral, The Virginian, Walker, Texas Ranger, along with some original programming. I like old movies from the 30’s and 40’s, so I watch TCM.
The Texan - Starring Rory Calhoun! Sponsored by Chesterfield! (I think - it was one of the cigarettes popular at that time.)
Tales of Wells Fargo,Wanted Dead Or Alive,Gunsmoke
Tales of Wells Fargo,Wanted Dead Or Alive,Gunsmoke
Mrs. JohnnyP bought the Hopalong Cassidy series several years ago. He was not shy to be first to draw a gun and blast away.
She bought the Have Gun series a few years ago. We both were surprised at how wimpy Paladin was, compared to Hoppy.
Who says great minds don’t think alike? I’m looking for the name of that song also. Ran a Google search yesterday and struck out.
Dish now has BUZZR.......a repeat of old game shows that I watched as a kid. Some of the commercials are from the late 50’s and early 60’s. Hub and I watch it all the time and enjoy going back to our childhoods......an escape from the crap going on around us today. Too bad AT&T U-verse doesn’t carry it since we’re thinking about switching but maybe they will in the near future.
You got that right.
I think he explained that in one of his last interviews. His wife was a lib and to keep peace he went along. He was probably a closet conservative.......that’s what I think anyway.
Another interesting show, about two outlaws trying to turn over a new leaf, was called "Alias Smith and Jones", but, sadly, one of the actors in that series had real life issues, and ended up committing suicide. This video is just their theme song - "Alias Smith and Jones 1971–1973 Extended TV Theme HD". (I know the show's episodes are available on DVD, but I don't know if they are available for viewing online somewhere.)
Funny though, no matter how much I loathe the smell of smoke and tobacco in general, I'm not nearly as offended as I am by all the body piercings, tattoos on every inch of the exposed skin and there's plenty of that and that's just the women, gays prancing around kissing, adults stripping and pretending to fornicate or kids using the four letter word for copulate every sentence!
Dittos on Rock Hudson, while most of his movie acting was shlocky and overly melodramatic, tv show, never watched but one never knew his sexual proclivities until his full blown AIDS was terminal.
Same with Richard Chamberlin, at least I never knew he was "light in the loafers!"
I'm incensed at all the gay activists today, claiming various historic figures, composers, writers, actors, etc. were either gay or "had latent homosexual tendencies!" It's easy to claim something about one's character years, even centuries after they are dead!
Kind of like black activists in the 70s, 80s, etc. claiming everything had been discovered or invented by "blacks in Egypt" or Muslims, or Russia!
Q: Where's Masterson
A: Bat's in the belfry
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