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#1 2014-07-20 05:09:38
- Armchaired
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RIP James Garner
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#2 2014-07-20 05:35:33
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Re: RIP James Garner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28390309
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#3 2014-07-20 05:37:08
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Re: RIP James Garner
I used to enjoy watching The Rockford Files when I was a kid.
RIP James Garner AKA Jim Rockford
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#4 2014-07-20 06:47:27
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Re: RIP James Garner
The Rockford Files were great, I remember the theme tune and those tail lights to his car.
Didn't he live in a trailer with his dad?
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#5 2014-07-20 10:32:42
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Re: RIP James Garner
Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
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#6 2014-07-20 13:04:15
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Re: RIP James Garner
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#7 2014-07-20 13:28:16
- Oliver
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Re: RIP James Garner
The Americanization of Emily was his best role.
#8 2014-07-20 14:01:40
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Re: RIP James Garner
A sad day indeed - always a staple of family television growing up via 'The Great escape'- and a damn good looking hombre to boot. Inadvertently, perhaps also instrumental in the success of 'The Sopranos' due to David Chase's scriptwriting on 'The Rockford Files' . Perhaps even more famous due to my Daughters generation embracing of 'The Notebook' .... chick flick or not - still a very good and poignant film.
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#9 2014-07-21 02:02:44
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Re: RIP James Garner
Loved the RF - especially the titles using the animated photos - genius. Very sad when you remember these people being younger and we see them now and realise we too are gathering up the years!
#10 2014-07-21 04:21:32
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Re: RIP James Garner
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#12 2014-07-21 04:39:18
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Re: RIP James Garner
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#13 2014-07-21 05:14:27
- chuck power
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Re: RIP James Garner
Who do you see? Who do you watch? Whose your leader? Which is your flock?
#14 2014-07-21 08:13:56
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Re: RIP James Garner
Didn't his Dad, Rocky, live with him in his caravan/office on the beach.
86 - that's a fair innings these days.
As Groucho Marx said "anybody can be this age - all you have to do is grow old"
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#15 2014-07-24 07:26:17
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Re: RIP James Garner
�Careful with that axe Eugene.�
#16 2014-07-24 10:08:08
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Re: RIP James Garner
Well damn this is some shitty news to come home to.
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#17 2014-07-24 10:10:15
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Re: RIP James Garner
I suspected this thread might garner a comment from you.
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#18 2014-07-24 10:13:32
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Re: RIP James Garner
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#19 2014-07-24 10:16:37
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Re: RIP James Garner
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#20 2014-07-24 10:16:57
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Re: RIP James Garner
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#21 2014-07-24 10:17:33
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Re: RIP James Garner
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#22 2014-07-24 10:20:32
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Re: RIP James Garner
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#23 2014-07-24 15:14:20
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Re: RIP James Garner
Don't get me started, I'm doing mortality maths all the time lately. Being older now than my dad was when I was born was one that occurred to me the other day.
To get back to Jim Garner, he'll be fondly missed here too. He was always a welcome presence on TV. What was that comedy western he was in with a black guy when they pretended to be slave and master?
And I think it was Garner, who on being asked "how do you feel about getting older" answered "given the alternative, I don't mind it at all".
“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
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#24 2014-07-24 16:14:23
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Re: RIP James Garner
That was it: Skin Game (1971), with Lou Gossett Jnr. I'd like to see that again. Funny how some things used to be on all the time, and now you never see them.
“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
Ray Bradbury