Excellent interview with James Garner:
http://www.thestacksreader.com/never-pl ... es-garner/
I keep kicking myself that I lent his autobiography to a friend awhile ago and have yet to get it back. It has been my experience that though you
make the person you lend a book to sign an oath in blood that she will return it, you have about a 5% chance of ever seeing that book again.
In the book Garner identifies some of the stars he decked for repeatedly abusing the "little people" on the set. They are alluded to in the above interview
but offhand I don't recall the names anymore.
In my opinion, for what it's worth, the man I perceive Garner to be from numerous articles, interviews and his bio, seems to be most like
his character in Murphy's Romance(1985).
Especially when he is giving advice to Sally Fields son on Life and how to comport yourself like a man.
Sally Fields was at the height of her stardom and had to force the studio to sign James Garner as they thought he was past it as a leading man.
She has since repeatedly said that her onscreen kiss with him was the best one of her career. Sorry Burt Reynolds.
Garner might have been inspired because Fields was never more beguiling and downright sexy.
Garner scored a Best Actor nod for his performance.
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