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Jan 31, 2008 - 4:25 PM
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Jim Phelps
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So what the hell happened? 
Here was a guy who had the rugged looks, comic ability & timing, and even producer's clout, yet his career never quite "took off" in the leading man sense like, say, George Clooney's (already an Oscar winner) has. Selleck is likable, for sure, and in his defense he *has* worked on many TV movies (including the "Jesse Stone" films), commercials, done voiceovers and has maintained his career in that he's working, but for someone who was once hailed (IIRC) as the "next Clark Gable", Selleck's post-MAGNUM, P.I. career isn't what I thought it would be.
Your thoughts?
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I turned my back on fame and moved to Montana. I have been told, over the years, that there is a 'resemblence'.
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So what the hell happened?
Here was a guy who had the rugged looks, comic ability & timing, and even producer's clout, yet his career never quite "took off" in the leading man sense like, say, George Clooney's (already an Oscar winner) has. Selleck is likable, for sure, and in his defense he *has* worked on many TV movies (including the "Jesse Stone" films), commercials, done voiceovers and has maintained his career in that he's working, but for someone who was once hailed (IIRC) as the "next Clark Gable", Selleck's post-MAGNUM, P.I. career isn't what I thought it would be.
Your thoughts?
well, he WAS cast as Indiana Jones...
btw anyone agree with me about mustaches detracting from a man's looks?
Selleck, Burt reynolds, Clark Gable, Connery
all look much more handsome clean shaven imho
beards are ok though!
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Tom Selleck has always reminded me of Sam Elliot, not only in looks and demeanor, but career.
Both have been successful in their ways, now turning to character roles a lot of the time.
But don't you think, overall, that they are in some ways, throw-backs to the matinee-idol old-star system that pretty well no longer existed by the time they had made it to the top?
so Manderley, what about the rumours about Selleck?
true or false?
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btw anyone agree with me about mustaches detracting from a man's looks?
Selleck, Burt reynolds, Clark Gable, Connery
all look much more handsome clean shaven imho
beards are ok though!
Totally DISAGREE. Mustaches are fine,
as long as they are kept trim and clean.
Beards are NOT. The stubble look is
o.k., too. Clean shaven...great.
Beards are disgusting, imo.
Den
hey! my father had a beard!
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I don't know how many of these films were post-Magnum (I never really watched Magnum, though like the theme music!) but I liked Selleck in:-
Runaway
High Road to China
Her Alibi
An Innocent Man
Quigley Down Under
Coma
Three Men and a Baby (haven't seen the sequel)
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Our choice for the film which best showcased Selleck’s style most impressively is Simon Wincer’s woefully underrated
Expertly guided by Wincer (whose previous Olympian achievement was LONESOME DOVE) (and conclusively supported by Basil Poledouris’ unbeatable score), QUIGLEY
Spotlighted Selleck’s understated but no less strong charisma, wry humor and subtle manliness (that would-be macho muscleheads ala Steroid Stallone and others of his misformed ilk have no conclusive clue about then, now or ever)
in a manner nothing else (to our fractured, enfeebled, thoroughly warped POV) has since he achieved his apex on teevee with Thomas of Magnum …
And, less we disagree with such a venerated Oracle as Sir M’s query
But don't you think, overall, that they are in some ways, throw-backs to the matinee-idol old-star system that pretty well no longer existed by the time they had made it to the top?
we rather respectfully suggest the standards he’s alluded to didn’t so much no longer exist as had definitely CHANGED (almost mirroring the studio system itself, n’est ce pas?) …
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I always thought the major drawback with Selleck as a film actor was his voice. The looks are there, rugged, masculine. It's no accident he used to pose for cigarette ads. (I can remember seeing a hologram of him smoking a Salem cigarette, set up in the middle of Grand Central Station, where it stayed for some months.)
But his voice has never matched his image. His voice makes him sound like a wuss, imo. It doesn't have the gravelly raspiness of Mr. Elliott. It sounds like the voice of a performer more adept at comedy, in direct contrast to his appearance.
Actually, he started out as a model. Hence the ads. Look carefully, and you can see him as an extra in a scene with Mae West, in MYRA BRECKENRIDGE.
Great looks, no argument there. But the voice doesn't cut it. Much too reasonable-sounding, guy-next-door.
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