I believe the first time I encountered James Garner on screen was when I saw him in Blake Edwards’s cross-dressing romantic comedy Victor/Victoria (based on the German Viktor Und Viktoria) as a child in the 1980s. It’s a film that certainly made an impression on me as I retain memories…
Tag: television
A few days ago in my rrrambling post on David Lean’s Great Expectations I made passing mention of Gillian Anderson’s performance as Lady Dedlock in the BBC version of Bleak House (expanded upon in my previous post, read it, if nothing else it will act as a soporific!), in the…
Is where they put the television, media center, whatever you want to call it… I know couples who have fought about it for years. Intimately. They would be named – let’s just say Mr. and Mrs. Lester. Mr. lives by the motto “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, which…
If you watched television anytime from the 1960s through the 1980s chances are if you were laughing Bill Persky had a hand in the script. Now in his eighties he’s got himself a WordPress site and published a book that I can’t wait to get my mitts on, a memoir…