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As I walk into James Garner\u2019s suite at the Palisades Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, I suddenly feel as though I\u2019m the Dude From the East accidentally strolling into the back room in Black Bart\u2019s Saloon. There, sitting around a table in the kitchen, is Bret Maverick himself, surrounded by four other poker-playing rascals, and all of these boys are big.<\/div>\n

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\u00a0We\u2019re talking teamster big, with hair that looks like windblown bushes and sweaters that bulge with muscles, and not your smooth, sinewy account-exec Nautilus muscles, either. No, these guys are North Country big, with muscle and flab and big, flat faces, and they\u2019re all smiling at none other than Gentleman Jim Garner himself, who turns and looks at me with that Jim Rockford \u201cAwww hell, Angel\u201d smile and says, \u201cNow isn\u2019t this just my luck. Just when I\u2019m getting ready to take these suckers for every dime they got in a fast little game of Jerry\u2019s Rules, I have to do this damned interview. Well, hell, on the other hand, maybe we got us here what you call your one more basic pigeon. Get yourself a drink of wine from the box in there, Robert, while I finish up this hand.\u201dHe\u2019s up here filming Joseph Wambaugh\u2019s novel The Glitter Dome for HBO, and Garner is all smiles as he invites me in. There is that born confidence man\u2019s charm in his voice. \u201cYou get your wine, Robert?\u201d Garner asks as he laughs and deals the boys another hand. \u201cYou know these journalists, they do like their booze.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cNow just a minute,\u201d I say. \u201cIs this going to be one of these star-insults-the-press interviews?\u201d Garner had already informed me that he does only one interview a year, and this is it. (\u201cHell,\u201d he\u2019d pointed out, \u201cI don\u2019t even eat with my press agent.\u201d)<\/div>\n

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\u201cNo way, no way,\u201d Garner says, smiling and winking and raking in the chips with his big, meaty right hand. \u201cWhat we got here is an I-treat-you-like-a-king interview. We\u2019re talking your basic royalty on the road. Man came all the way from that behavior sinkhole New York City to talk to me, boys, so I\u2019ll have to do some work. I don\u2019t know why anybody would want to know what the hell I have to say anyway, but as long as he\u2019s here, we\u2019re going to treat him right.\u201d\u201cJust make sure you teach him Jerry\u2019s Rules,\u201d says Dave, a muscle-bound kid with a big, innocent face. \u201cI still don\u2019t understand that goddamned game.\u201d\u201cIn good time,\u201d Garner says. \u201cAll in good time, Dave. Just make sure you get us out there to the location in that damned snow tomorrow, okay?\u201dAs I walk into James Garner\u2019s suite at the Palisades Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, I suddenly feel as though I\u2019m the Dude From the East accidentally strolling into the back room in Black Bart\u2019s Saloon. There, sitting around a table in the kitchen, is Bret Maverick himself, surrounded by four other poker-playing rascals, and all of these boys are big. We\u2019re talking teamster big, with hair that looks like windblown bushes and sweaters that bulge with muscles, and not your smooth, sinewy account-exec Nautilus muscles, either. No, these guys are North Country big, with muscle and flab and big, flat faces, and they\u2019re all smiling at none other than Gentleman Jim Garner himself, who turns and looks at me with that Jim Rockford \u201cAwww hell, Angel\u201d smile and says, \u201cNow isn\u2019t this just my luck. Just when I\u2019m getting ready to take these suckers for every dime they got in a fast little game of Jerry\u2019s Rules, I have to do this damned interview. Well, hell, on the other hand, maybe we got us here what you call your one more basic pigeon. Get yourself a drink of wine from the box in there, Robert, while I finish up this hand.\u201dHe\u2019s up here filming Joseph Wambaugh\u2019s novel The Glitter Dome for HBO, and Garner is all smiles as he invites me in. There is that born confidence man\u2019s charm in his voice. \u201cYou get your wine, Robert?\u201d Garner asks as he laughs and deals the boys another hand. \u201cYou know these journalists, they do like their booze.\u201d\u201cNow just a minute,\u201d I say. \u201cIs this going to be one of these star-insults-the-press interviews?\u201d Garner had already informed me that he does only one interview a year, and this is it. (\u201cHell,\u201d he\u2019d pointed out, \u201cI don\u2019t even eat with my press agent.\u201d)\u201cNo way, no way,\u201d Garner says, smiling and winking and raking in the chips with his big, meaty right hand. \u201cWhat we got here is an I-treat-you-like-a-king interview. We\u2019re talking your basic royalty on the road. Man came all the way from that behavior sinkhole New York City to talk to me, boys, so I\u2019ll have to do some work. I don\u2019t know why anybody would want to know what the hell I have to say anyway, but as long as he\u2019s here, we\u2019re going to treat him right.\u201d\u201cJust make sure you teach him Jerry\u2019s Rules,\u201d says Dave, a muscle-bound kid with a big, innocent face. \u201cI still don\u2019t understand that goddamned game.\u201d\u201cIn good time,\u201d Garner says. \u201cAll in good time, Dave. Just make sure you get us out there to the location in that damned snow tomorrow, okay?\u201dThe next day, after a morning of playing backgammon and shooting craps with Garner and his stand-in\/best buddy for thirty-seven years, Luis Delgado, I\u2019m in Garner\u2019s van, heading across Vancouver for a graveyard scene. It\u2019s getting cloudy and dark out, and Jim Garner is talking about his past, honesty and Hollywood.\u201cYou see,\u201d he says, flipping down his shades and looking out at the streets, \u201cI was raised in a place where a man\u2019s word was his bond. Oklahoma. Oh, sure, we had our hustlers there too, but for the most part people were honest, took care of one another. If a man lied, it was usually transparent, because the norm was to tell the truth. But in L.A. people live the lie. They\u2019ll look you right in the eye and lie to you. They lie even when there\u2019s no reason to. I don\u2019t understand those people. They\u2019re too devious for me. I don\u2019t trust any of them anymore. They\u2019ve taken the heart out of it for me, and I used to really love this business.\u201dI ask if he\u2019s referring to the multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Universal over The Rockford Files, in which Garner is suing to retrieve profits from the series.\u201cSome guys are professional, too professional, so they get slick and use the same old tricks. But Jim is working on making it real, rougher around the edges.\u201d
\n\u201cYeah, among other things. Our company, Cherokee Productions, was supposed to get a 38 percent share of the profits. We brought that series in only seven days over schedule in five and a half years\u2014no other television show can match that record for even one year. The show was a big, big hit. I figure they\u2019ve stolen about 25 million dollars from me, and that\u2019s a hell of a lot of money.\u201dHe then begins to patiently explain the elaborate and varied tricks accountants can play to somehow conclude that a show that was a hit for six years, and is still in syndication, didn\u2019t earn a dime and is, in fact, $9.5 million in debt. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve got the guts to resist the out-of-court settlement when they offer me a whole bunch of money to call it off,\u201d Garner admits.\u201cIs it worth all the mental aggravation?\u201d I ask.\u201cNow you\u2019re talking like them,\u201d Garner says, and there\u2019s steel in his voice. \u201cThey figure to wear you down. But damn, it\u2019s not just that they have my money, it\u2019s also the principle of the thing. It\u2019s wrong.\u201dThere\u2019s a finality to the word wrong, and I have to smile. I think of Martha, a southern lady I know who\u2019s a secretary in Baltimore. When I told her I was going to interview James Garner, she said, \u201cYou tell him he has an honest face and he\u2019s the only damned movie star I\u2019d move back into a trailer with, you hear?\u201dAt a freezing suburb outside Vancouver that has been dolled up to resemble L.A., Garner gets dressed to play a tough scene. He plays a burned-out detective in The Glitter Dome. A buddy has been killed, and Garner has to stand at the funeral in the \u201crain\u201d (supplied by off-camera hoses with sprinklers attached) and look as though he\u2019s been beaten down by exhaustion and drink and fatigue. As I wait for him to change his clothes I talk to Stuart Margolin, the director. He\u2019s best known, though, as Angel, Jim Rockford\u2019s squealing, bitching, cowardly but lovable buddy-nemesis on The Rockford Files.We huddle up in a truck cabin, eat some cold chili and talk about Garner\u2019s acting.\u201cHe\u2019s getting better and better as an actor,\u201d Margolin says. \u201cI mean, some guys are professional, too professional, so they get slick and use the same old tricks. But Jim is working on making it real, rougher around the edges. The next ten years should be interesting. He\u2019s turning the corner into what you call the leading character man. He\u2019s going for more experimentation, and he\u2019s brought a reality all his own to this part. You watch these scenes, and you\u2019ll see what I mean. This isn\u2019t Maverick.\u201dA few minutes later I watch Garner standing on the freezing infield of a Vancouver playground. The water is coming down on him, and the camera closes in, and there is pain, disgust, weariness, that does look different from anything I\u2019ve seen from him in the past. It\u2019s the face of an older, hurt man, and I think that maybe, unconsciously, he\u2019s using the lawsuit against Universal to summon these feelings of disgust and anger. But whatever is pushing him forward, it\u2019s obvious that he\u2019s going for something different here, something that reaches the gut in a deeper way than charm.Now, in the darkness, we\u2019re riding across Vancouver. Our friend Dave the driver has stopped by the van and assured us there\u2019s not going to be any snow, but it\u2019s already falling, great thick flakes. All the world\u2019s a great, soft stage, and only the hum of the van\u2019s engine cuts through the night as Garner rides shotgun and Luis and I sit in the back in a warm, comfortable and friendly haze.\u201cI read somewhere that you never let your price get too high for films,\u201d I say. \u201cWhy\u2019s that?\u201d\u201cWell,\u201d Garner says, turning around and putting one leg up on the tool hump, \u201cin Hollywood they have this terrible thing: You can\u2019t ever let your price go down When Lee Marvin put his price up to a million dollars a picture, he found it harder to get work. I didn\u2019t want to cut myself out of work, so I never let it get that high. I mean, if a picture is really good, I\u2019ll do it for practically nothing, take a little profit on the back end.\u201d\u201cHave you ever really done that?\u201d I ask.At 55, his knees are shot, the result of several operations and arthritis, but otherwise he looks great, and later I ask him if he works out at all. After an appropriate pause, he says, \u201cThe only time you\u2019ll see me jogging is if somebody is chasing me\u2014and he better be big, or I won\u2019t even run.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure. I did it for Bob Altman on Health, which is a pretty good though hardly anybody saw it. But I did it because I wanted to work with Altman, and Betty Bacall and Glenda Jackson, and Carol [Burnett] and Cavett\u2026 yeah, even Dick Cavett, he\u2019s my buddy. I talked to him the other night, and I confessed to this little trick we played on him. See, Betty Bacall wrote up this diary, invited Cavett over to her condo and left it out especially for him to see. Then she goes into the bedroom, and she leaves the diary there, wide open. Well, he can\u2019t resist taking a peek, and suddenly he sees his name. Now he\u2019s got to read it, and it says something like, \u2018Well, Jim Garner is such fun, and Carol Burnett Is a ball and Glenda Jackson is wonderful, but Dick Cavett dresses like a 14-year-old and is so silly.\u2019 And it just crushed him. Well, he finally admitted when I talked to him the other night that he had seen the diary, and I say, \u2018Did it ever occur to you that that diary was put out there so you would see it?\u2019 And he says, \u2018You wouldn\u2019t\u2026. I went to therapy over that!\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well, Dick, maybe I would and maybe I wouldn\u2019t!\u2019\u201d Garner slaps his thigh and laughs hard and loud. The kind of joke Bret Maverick might like.As we arrive at the big studio on the top of the snow-covered mountain in Vancouver, Garner is talking about the first time he met his buddy Margolin and about his favorite TV role.\u201cWe had this show called Nichols. It\u2019s the best work I\u2019ve ever done, about broke my heart. The show was set at the turn of the century, in Nichols, Arizona, and I played a sheriff who rode a belt-drive Harley Davidson and refused to carry a gun. Wore jodhpurs and cavalry boots, and Stuart played a variation of the character he later played on The Rockford Files. In Nichols, though, he was really the most back-stabbing, irritating sneak, and he was my deputy. Margot Kidder was in Nichols, too, and she was wonderful.\u201cGod we had talent on that show. Anyway, we were dead the first night we showed the pilot to the Chevrolet people in Detroit, because some executive\u2019s wife didn\u2019t like It. She said, \u2018Well, that\u2019s not Maverick!\u2019 Well, of course it wasn\u2019t Maverick! It was better than Maverick, humorous, with social satire. But we got preempted eight times out of twenty-four shows because of Nixon running for election. Then they moved us up against Marcus Welby, and we ran even with him, and he was the number-one show in the country. I don\u2019t think we ever got below a 35 share the whole time. Hell, the show lasted one year, I swear to you, if they would have It on another year, it would still be running today. It was just too damned original.\u201dGarner now walks in from the blizzard to play a scene in which he\u2019s walking through a daytime L.A. drizzle. He puts on his L.A.P.D. overcoat and slides into the makeup room. Susan, a makeup girl, affectionately starts in about Garner\u2019s hair.\u201cIt\u2019s getting so long, dear.\u201d\u201cWell, darling,\u201d Garner says, \u201cI know you\u2019ll make it wonderful.\u201dIt\u2019s obvious that all the girls in the makeup department are crazy about him, each of them going out of her way to make him comfortable, bringing him mints (Garner is forever asking people for mints) or hot chocolate. Garner has such an easygoing manner, and there is never a hint of his demanding anything. Indeed , earlier today he mentioned a famous star whom he detested because he picked on little people on the set. \u201cI won\u2019t tolerate that,\u201d he says. \u201cMy lawyer used to call me Crusader Rabbit! Bullying is not acceptable.\u201d The line sounds very much like something one of Garner\u2019s heroes, John F. Kennedy, might have said.\u201cEarlier today I watched you do that scene at the graveyard,\u201d I say, \u201cand you looked an older, weary man. Do you worry about getting old?\u201d\u201cNah, I think young.\u201d\u201cI watched you on Maverick when I was 5,\u201d Susan says, and Garner playfully gives her a punch on the jaw.\u201cShe\u2019ll do it to you every time,\u201d he says. \u201cSneaky.\u201dAt 55, his knees are shot, the result of several operations and arthritis, but otherwise he looks great, and later I ask him if he works out at all. After an appropriate pause, he says, \u201cThe only time you\u2019ll see me jogging is if somebody is chasing me\u2014and he better be big, or I won\u2019t even run.\u201d\u201cWhat about immortality?\u201d I ask as we trudge from the makeup truck to the studio in the deepening snow.\u201cWhat about i t?\u201d\u201cIs it any\u2026 consolation?\u201d\u201cHell, no, not one whit. They could burn all the film tomorrow and I wouldn\u2019t care. Listen, I\u2019d rather be remembered in literature, anyway. Yeah, I was mentioned in Myra Breckenridge. Gore Vidal wrote that his hero had \u2018inspected all the cowboy heroes\u2019 asses, from the flat ass of Hoot Gibson to the impertinent, baroque ass of James Garner.\u2019 Hell, I can be remembered for that.\u201dWe both laugh, and Garner shakes his head.\u201cMan, I had to go look in the dictionary to figure that one out.\u201d\u201cAnd what did it mean?\u201d I ask.\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Garner says as we walk into the studio, \u201cbut it sticks out and it\u2019s got dimples.\u201dBy Robert Ward 1984<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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