James Garner
Jul. 20th, 2014 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveSo I learned today that James Garner died last night. I know he was getting on, but it was still a sad shock. I feel so bad for his family. I've actually had some minimal contact with his daughter; she's on Tumblr and she Follows me. It really comes out in her posts how much she loves her father. This must be such an awful blow for her, and for her mother. He was married to the same woman all through the years, since 1956.
I have the urge to watch a lot of Maverick and The Rockford Files this week. And my sister gave us a bunch of movies she'd recorded off TV a long time ago; among them is the James Garner movie Move Over, Darling. I was just looking through those tapes yesterday, hoping for some of Richard Anderson's early movies, and that was the only tape that I was really interested in, so I left it on top of the stack.
James Garner isn't actually one of my "darlings", but I do like him. He definitely had a skill for comedy. And my favorite thing about him is how devoted he was as a family man.
I've been making Tumblr posts with him today and plan to take some pictures from other episodes to post later in the week. I'm also thinking I should really try to pick up my Rockford Files fic again, the one with Dutch Ingram.
And I can't help that his death is making me worry more about those of my "darlings" who are still alive. They're all around the same age as he, give or take a year or two. I dread so much the day when I'll come on and see or someone will tell me that one of them has died.
I have the urge to watch a lot of Maverick and The Rockford Files this week. And my sister gave us a bunch of movies she'd recorded off TV a long time ago; among them is the James Garner movie Move Over, Darling. I was just looking through those tapes yesterday, hoping for some of Richard Anderson's early movies, and that was the only tape that I was really interested in, so I left it on top of the stack.
James Garner isn't actually one of my "darlings", but I do like him. He definitely had a skill for comedy. And my favorite thing about him is how devoted he was as a family man.
I've been making Tumblr posts with him today and plan to take some pictures from other episodes to post later in the week. I'm also thinking I should really try to pick up my Rockford Files fic again, the one with Dutch Ingram.
And I can't help that his death is making me worry more about those of my "darlings" who are still alive. They're all around the same age as he, give or take a year or two. I dread so much the day when I'll come on and see or someone will tell me that one of them has died.
