Atlantic Magazine Nostalgia On Lost Charm of Men Featuring James Garner and Cary Grant

[AlbertClarkson]

Adam, Brian of Canada, et al.: Here's a current article primarily on Garner and Grant which says some good, insightful things about Garner--he emerges as the premiere charmer--in nostalgic appreciation, stressing The Rockford Files. It's worth a read even though it's the kind of stuff ever-more-desperate print journals are throwing out there these days as doom sweeps in.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/when-men-lost-their-charm/309303/

[AlbertClarkson]

On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:46:09 PM UTC-7, AlbertClarkson wrote:
> Adam, Brian of Canada, et al.: Here's a current article primarily on Garner and Grant which says some good, insightful things about Garner--he emerges as the premiere charmer--in nostalgic appreciation, stressing The Rockford Files. It's worth a read even though it's the kind of stuff ever-more-desperate print journals are throwing out there these days as doom sweeps in.
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/when-men-lost-their-charm/309303/

It's me with a postscript: the illustration at the lead to the Atlantic article shows a man in a pink sport coat who is too tall to fit in the abbreviated image area--you can't see his face. It's Garner, towering over Grant, MacMurray and the others in the collage and whose bigger image is suppose to parallel the esteem as a charmer in which the writer of the piece holds him. I know it's Garner because I read the piece in a hard copy of the magazine and saw the full image.

[Adam H. Kerman]

I like this quote: Garner, the hardscrabble Oklahoman, is at once worldly
and untainted by sophistication

While Maverick was a likeable rogue, I don't think I'd describe Rockford
that way much of the time.

Thanks.

[bandi...@yahoo.ca]

Interesting read, Al. Reminds me of the People magazine (I believe it was People), from a ways back. Could be just after the filming of 'Murphy's Romance' if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, I have the magazine somewhere. Jim was on the cover and they titled it "The Last Real Man". If you can find it somewhere, it's worth reading.

[AlbertClarkson]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:56:32 PM UTC-7, bandi...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> Interesting read, Al. Reminds me of the People magazine (I believe it was People), from a ways back. Could be just after the filming of 'Murphy's Romance' if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, I have the magazine somewhere. Jim was on the cover and they titled it "The Last Real Man". If you can find it somewhere, it's worth reading.

Thanks. I'll check it out.