Tom Selleck, in the role of his life

[ishmael]

Anyone else catch his police chief Jesse Stone in a Robert Parker police mystery last Sunday?


It was well done. Well written, well acted, well plotted. Too damn many adverts, but what else is new?

Craggy, still handsome. A nice edge to his acting he could never bring to his other roles. It's apparently an occasional series. This the second.

Worth a look.

[Rick Clark]

Ex wife was in love with that guy and still is after 20 years.

[ishmael]

Your ex isn't in an exclusive club. He does sorta epitomize that macho chiseled look. I always thought of him as a striking face. But he can really act. He's in the credits as one of the writers, too.

[Northernguy59]

I have always enjoyed and followed him in his many western roles. Hes been in some classics like The Sackets.

[ishmael]

I confess not having seen much of his work. I remember him as "Magnum." I think I saw one or two other, some of the western stuff.

He's good in this as Parker's anti-hero. He's got a drinking problem, is divorced but still loves his ex, finds all kinds of entanglements with women, is talking to a shrink. He's at the stop named "Desperate" on the long train line of a cop career, in a small town called Paradise, set somewhere near Boston.

He's remarkably good, hardbitten like that. Savvy, without the desire, tough.

I might skip watching it on the tube and look for it on DVD. The commercials are real ball busters. Gawd, they are horrible.

[Meerkat]

Yeah, it must be the role of his life. After all, the world renowned commentator on everything hath pontificated. :rolleyes:

[Bob Cleek]

Odd you should mention Magnum PI.... I happened to have dinner with "Robin Masters" last Saturday night. He's an old, old friend. You never saw him on camera, but he played the Masters part throughout the whole series. Great guy. Great sense of humor. He's in his mid seventies now. Still lives in Hawaii.

[ishmael]

David,

I wrote a review. You've heard of those, a writer expressing an opinion?

[ishmael]

What do you mean we never saw him on camera? I assume you mean he was the mind behind Robin Masters. He, remind me, was the cultivated Englishman, the foil to Magnum?

The stories we see and read all come from somewhere, some mind. And you know one mind in that silly drama?

Interesting. And he was the prototype that made that character? Love it.

[Meerkat]

Robin Masters was the never-seen owner of the estate that "Magnum" lived on. The english butler was the best thing about Magnum PI IMO.

[Dave Fleming]

How about Quigley Down Under?

I am sure Dingy will have about 2,000 words+ to say about that one.:rolleyes:

I liked him with Sam Elliot, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson in the Sackett's.

Or the one where he plays the Civil War veteran coming home to his family finding his wife, played by Susie Amis who starred in that terrible 'duster' as an androgynous rancher, run off their ranch by the Carridine Bros..

[ishmael]

Ah, the never seen owner. I'd forgotten, if I ever knew.

But Cleek's post is still a bit, er um, enigmatic. The owner of the estate where the filming took place?

[htom]

The show Sunday was the third in the series of movies; there are, IIRC, four novels so far. (googles) A script is being prepped for a fourth tv-movie.

Five novels:

NIght Passage (2001)
Trouble in Paradise (2002)
Death in Paradise (2003)
Stone Cold (2004)
Sea Change (2006)

Quigley is one of my favorite movies.

[Bob Smalser]

Another conservative Republican.

[Another One]

Saw him in two, very diverse roles recently: the reporter who ends up with Kevin Klein in "In and Out", and as Shirley Schmitt (Candice Bergen)'s ex-husband and recent lover in "Boston Legal."

Not bad, certainly a reasonable option - - but I'd take Kenneth Branaugh any day (even if I can't really spell his name.)