Remembering Maverick... as played by James Garner

James Garner - 1928 - 2014

First, he was the funny and cardsharp hero as Bret Maverick (1957 - 1962).
Then he played Jim Rockford in Rockford Files (1974 - 1980), as the quiet and unsung hero who always helped people solve their problems without getting much in reward.

From Wikipedia:
"James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy series Maverick and Jim Rockford in the 1970s detective drama series The Rockford Files.

Garner also starred in more than 50 films, including The Great Escape (1963),The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, Space Cowboys (2000), and The Notebook (2004)."

His movies I like:
Boys' Night Out with Kim Novak
Move Over, Darling with Doris Day
The Thrill Of It All with Doris Day
Support Your Local Gunfighter with Suzanne Pleshette

And he was the Polaroid Guy on TV commercials in the '70s and early '80s.
Remember his Polaroid Christmas commercial with Mariette Hartley in 1979?  
on YouTube ( http://youtu.be/pt82z_GUCKw )

And this one was done in 1981
On YouTube ( http://youtu.be/MA8f2L-FCmE )

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David McCallum

 明星迷 in the old days...

This guy was the reason why I played hookey while I was still in junior high!  I wrote a letter to my teacher saying I was sick (of course, faking my mom's signature) and went to the airport to meet "my idol at that time", David McCallum, the star from "Man From U.N.C.L.E."!

He was so gorgeous then!

Now at 79 (born in 1933), he still looks great! He is starring in the current popular CBS TV series, NCIS.

Who Shot JR? - Do you remember???

On March 21, 1980, J.R. Ewing was shot by a mysterious assailant! The whole world was shocked and wanted to find out who the assailant was. But the truth wouldn't be revealed until November that year when the third season of Dallas began to air on TV. During those few summer months in 1980, the question of "Who shot JR?" was a hot topic on almost every social occasion.

The following has been copied from another website: "Streets had emptied on March 21st 1980, the night JR got shot; they emptied again on November 21 when Kristin coughed......as brazenly as ever... Fifty three countries tuned in to the shooting, the headline making news of which helped sell the series to another eleven countries by the time it came back on air again..."

The person who shot JR turned out to be Kristin Shepard, the sister-in-law and JR's mistress, played by Mary Crosby.

Sue Ellen Ewing, JR's long suffering wife, was played by Linda Gray.

JR Ewing, played by Larry Hagman as the greedy oil baron in Dallas was the most popular actor in the eighties! Before playing the scheming JR Ewing, Larry Hagman played the handsome astronaut in I Dream Of Jeannie with Barbara Eden, the 2000-year-old genie! He was so lovable then! Well, as JR Ewing, he was also lovable in another sense - a cunning character with so much shrewdness that viewers just loved to hate!

Dirk Benedick in Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV Series)

From Wikipedia:

"Glen A. Larson, the Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica, has stated in many interviews that he originally conceived of the Galactica premise, which he originally called Adam's Ark, in the late 1960s. However, he was unable to get the project greenlit for many years.

Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. In fact, 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios, claiming that it had stolen 34 distinct ideas from Star Wars. Universal promptly countersued, claiming Star Wars had stolen ideas from the 1972 film Silent Running (notably the robot "drones") and the Buck Rogers serials of the 1940s.

Initially, Larson envisioned Battlestar Galactica as a series of made-for-TV movies (a three-hour pilot and two two-hour episodes) for the ABC television network.

In 1979 at the 6th Annual People's Choice Awards, the series won for Best New TV Drama Series.

The initial episode of the series was broadcast on September 17, 1978. However, approximately 60 minutes into the first episode, the broadcast was interrupted for a significant period—almost an hour—by the announcement of the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords, deeply marring the broadcast of the initial episode."

Dirk Benedict as Lt. Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica ----- How can you forget him when he played the con-man Lieutenant Templeton Peck (Face) in "The A Team" during the 1980s action TV series?

The stars of the Seventies - Charlie's Angels

Hi my friends - I'm back!
寫完了好幾篇五、六十年代的歌曲和電影等，現在開始談談七、八十年代的歌曲和電影吧。其實在這期間，我的時間多數放在事業與家庭，沒有太多空閒時間聽曲和看電影，有許多屬於這二十年的電影，都是後期在電視上看的！
I had written about music and movies of the '60s for almost 2 years now, and I think it's about time for me to move on to the '70s.  So from now on, I will talk about the forgotten stars of the '70s, their music and their movies, etc.

From Wikipedia:
"Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. Charlie's Angels was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. In pre-production, the original proposed title was The Alley Cats.

Three women, the Angels (originally Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and Jaclyn Smith), graduated from the Los Angeles police academy only to be assigned such duties as handling switchboards and directing traffic. They quit and were hired to work for the Charles Townsend Agency as private investigators. Their boss, Charlie (voiced by John Forsythe), is never seen full face — in some episodes the viewer gets to see the back of his head and his arms, talking through a phone while surrounded by beautiful women — assigning cases to the Angels and his liaison, Bosley (played by David Doyle), via a speaker phone."

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Quoted from Wikipedia:

"There were 105 episodes (from 1964 -1968) created by MGM that made up this series. The first season was broadcast in black-and-white. The series centered on a two-man troubleshooting team for a covert espionage organization: American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), and Russian Illya Kuryakin (David McCullum). Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, the British head of the organization. Lisa Rogers (Barbara Moore) joined the cast as a female regular in the fourth season."

My favourite, of course, is the blonde hair Ilyia Kuryakin played by Scottish actor David McCullum.

Richard Chamberlain - The King of Television as Dr. Kildare, as Anjin-san in Shogun, as Father Ralph and as Jason Bourne...

A most successful TV actor in the '60s as Dr. Kildare, Richard Chamberlain - the King of Television, went on to play more serious roles as Anjin-san (John Blackthorne) in Shogun (1980); as Father Ralph in The Thorn Birds (1983); and as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity (1988).

Dick can sing as well! Besides singing the theme song (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) for Dr. Kildare, he also recorded songs like "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo"; "True Love" and "All I Have To Do Is Dream". He turned to theatre work in his latter years. I saw him playing Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady when he toured Toronto some years ago; he was superb!

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