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Show No. 133
Apr. 4, 2012 |
First hour: TV
Confidential celebrates James Garner’s birthday by
playing Part 2 of our conversation with Jon
Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the story of Jim’s life and career in the motion
picture industry. Topics include Garner's lifelong passion for auto racing,
including the lengths he took while working with John Frankenheimer during the
filming of Grand Prix. Also in this hour: a
replay of our segment on “star car” researcher Jim
Suva, a consultant on the PBS
documentary series Pioneers of Television, Plus: Tony
Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the premiere of Dateline NBC, the final
appearance of Jack Paar on The Tonight Show, and other events that
originally took place This Week in TV History.
Second hour: An encore presentation of our January 2011 conversation with actor and author Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (The F.B.I., 77 Sunset Strip, My Dinner of Herbs), which includes Efrem's memories of working with James Garner on Maverick, his daughter Stephanie Zimbalist on Remington Steele, and Montgomery Pittman and Leonid Kinsky on 77 Sunset Strip. |
I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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