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Old 07-23-2014, 02:19 PM
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I'm liking Big Jim more and more . . .

Garner, in the book, admitted that he has smoked pot for most of his adult life. He dabbled doing some white line fever, snorting cocaine with SNL great John Belushi who died from a drug overdose.

Garner refers to himself in the book as a "bleeding-heart liberal" who felt that Adlai Stevenson the most intelligent man to have ever run for president, with Barack Obama taking the number two slot.

Big Jim doesn’t have kind words to say about his fellow actors either –saying his “Great Escape” costar and pal Steve McQueen was an “insecure poseur and not a very good actor”. He also branded Charles Bronson “bitter and belligerent”.
Wow! That is quite a testimony of just how stupid drugs can make someone. Theres no one that could be born that stupid.

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Wow! That is quite a testimony of just how stupid drugs can make someone. Theres no one that could be born that stupid.
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No, what would it be? Don't tell me that drugs have made you that stupid too.
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Wow! That is quite a testimony of just how stupid drugs can make someone. Theres no one that could be born that stupid.
Larry, the fair weather friend, throws his former buddy James Garner by the wayside. A pity.
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Larry, the fair weather friend, throws his former buddy James Garner by the wayside. A pity.
But such a fine Judge of Character.
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One needs to have very high standards of personal care to hang with Larry.
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Larry, the fair weather friend, throws his former buddy James Garner by the wayside. A pity.
Well it goes to show how good Garners acting skills were. He played the parts of all those good guys, while truthfully he was just a sleazy dope smoker, smoking enough of the poison that he fell for thee obvious BS put forth by a couple of scheming politicians.

He pulled off the ruse very successfully.
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Well it goes to show how good Garners acting skills were. He played the parts of all those good guys, while truthfully he was just a sleazy dope smoker, smoking enough of the poison that he fell for thee obvious BS put forth by a couple of scheming politicians.

He pulled off the ruse very successfully.
Or it could show that people with different life choices than you can lead very successful and worthwhile lives.
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Or it could show that people with different life choices than you can lead very successful and worthwhile lives.
Successful by what measure? Money? Deception? If those are your measures then yes, he led a successful life.
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Old 07-24-2014, 07:44 AM
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One of my all time favorites. He didn't seem to be like the typical Hollywood flaming liberal sleazoids either.
I wonder how many of Larry's other heroes are letting him down? Sure hope that Clint Eastwood never partook of the evil weed...
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Hopefully this will not shock anyone, but a lot of your Hollywood heros have feet of clay. The person you see on the screen may, or may not, be closer than you think.

Show-biz people are measured by different rules among themselves than among the auds. One thing I hear a lot is: How did your last project do? As long as someone is making truckloads of money for you then your personal foibles are quite likely to be overlooked, and the talents in this business have more than enough foibles to go around.

I work with a lot of people I would never hang out with and I hang out with a lot of people I would never work with. But I don't judge their personal lives.

Except for one area: How much did their last picture do? But that is business and not personal. As long as you can keep the two from becoming one then you will do OK.

And that applies to whatever line of work you are in.
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Successful by what measure? Money? Deception? If those are your measures then yes, he led a successful life.
and to think, page one of this thread you were ready to sleep with Mr. Garner.

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