Something interesting on Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. airs on WGN twice a day, and occasionally I watch it, when I can. I have a long history with the show, since my mom used to watch it when I was growing up, so I would watch it with her once in a while. She has a thing for Tom Selleck (still does), and the location didn't hurt. I watched it, of course, because of Larry Manetti - he was quite the dish back in the day!
Anyway, yesterday at about 12.50 p.m. I turned it on. I had just put Mia down for a nap after her speech therapy and was giving Norah a bottle to try to get her to sleep. This is no easy task, as chronicled here. Sometimes I try to put her down in her room, sometimes out in the living room with the television on. It's a crap shoot.
So I turn on Magnum and catch the end of it. The bad guy corners Thomas with a rifle! Oh no, what will Thomas do??? I didn't care - I was too busy checking out the bad guy. He looked familiar. I looked at the description on the DirecTV guide and confirmed it: it was Ian Cocksucking McShane! If you don't know why I call him that, you obviously have never watched Deadwood on HBO, which is a shame, because it's one of the best shows on television. Anyway, there was Al Swearingen, big as life, 20 years younger and speaking with a really bad British Isles accent - I couldn't even tell what it was supposed to be. Isn't he British? Shouldn't he be better at that? I love seeing actors who are relatively famous these days in roles from long ago where they were just trying to pay the bills - McShane, unbelievably, has been around since the early 1960s, but he wasn't famous in the '80s. It's like my very own episode of Before They Were Rock Stars!
Anyway, yesterday at about 12.50 p.m. I turned it on. I had just put Mia down for a nap after her speech therapy and was giving Norah a bottle to try to get her to sleep. This is no easy task, as chronicled here. Sometimes I try to put her down in her room, sometimes out in the living room with the television on. It's a crap shoot.
So I turn on Magnum and catch the end of it. The bad guy corners Thomas with a rifle! Oh no, what will Thomas do??? I didn't care - I was too busy checking out the bad guy. He looked familiar. I looked at the description on the DirecTV guide and confirmed it: it was Ian Cocksucking McShane! If you don't know why I call him that, you obviously have never watched Deadwood on HBO, which is a shame, because it's one of the best shows on television. Anyway, there was Al Swearingen, big as life, 20 years younger and speaking with a really bad British Isles accent - I couldn't even tell what it was supposed to be. Isn't he British? Shouldn't he be better at that? I love seeing actors who are relatively famous these days in roles from long ago where they were just trying to pay the bills - McShane, unbelievably, has been around since the early 1960s, but he wasn't famous in the '80s. It's like my very own episode of Before They Were Rock Stars!
posted by Greg | 7:02 PM
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-- McShane, unbelievably, has been around since the early 1960s, but he wasn't famous in the '80s.
Believe it or not, he was. He starred in a UK TV series called 'Lovejoy' which had quite a following, but which for some strange reason (perhaps because it was rubbish) never gets repeated. I'm stunned that his name is known in far-off Arizona.
It's only famous here because of Deadwood. And of course I meant "famous in America," which is, after all, the only fame that counts!!!!
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