from The Playboy Interview:
James GarnerInterview by Lawrence Linderman
A candid conversation with the easygoing star about "Maverick," "Rockford,"
funny commercials, his bizarre childhood and corruption in Hollywood
"Did Universal do me out of a couple of million dollars? I think it's a lot more than a couple of million! . . . I'll be ten years in the courts, but that's all right. I'm not going anywhere."
"'Maverick' was the first pinprick in the balloon of TV Westerns. The same thing was true of 'Rockford' and detective series. . . . I come in and scrape 'em up. I'm a killer of genres."
"I don't come out there with a lollipop and I don't say 'Take dat to da bank.' and I'm not flashy. I do humor; I don't do comedy. Humor is much more subtle than comedy."
Photography by Larry L. Logan
Reprinted from Playboy, March 1981 Copyright ©1981 Playboy Enterprises,
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