More raping of the childhood

[Ed Anger]

 

Dermot Mulroney to star in "Rockford" update
By Nellie Andreeva Sun Feb 28, 10:10 PM PST

Dermot Mulroney is NBC's new Jim Rockford.

In his first regular TV role, Mulroney is set to play the iconic private eye in the network's updated take on the hit 1970s drama that starred James Garner in the title role.

The new Jim Rockford is described as "slightly crumpled, wry humored, cynical, world weary, compassionate when it's called for and easily irritated by morons."

His troubled past includes doing some time as a convict and as a cop.

Aside from an arc on NBC's "Friends" in 2003, "My Best Friend's Wedding" co-star Mulroney has been focused on features, most recently appearing in "Burn After Reading."

NBC's "Rockford Files" was written by "House" creator David Shore, who is executive producing with Steve Carell.

Enhance your calm Ed. Enhance your calm.....

[viper37]

doesn't ring a bell.  Glad it's not my childhood being raped

[Eochaid]

doesn't ring a bell.  Glad it's not my childhood being raped

Siegy will get it eventually, don't worry

Kevin

[Ed Anger]

doesn't ring a bell.  Glad it's not my childhood being raped

Siegy will get it eventually, don't worry

Kevin

He going to bitch about vague thread titles. He might even bark an order at me.

Like I'd obey his plebian bleats. 

[Razgovory]

I'm working out a contract with Ludacris to get my childhood rapped.

[Darth Wagtaros]

So the Karate Kid is being remade, except it is set in Chiner and is about Kung Fu, not Karate. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

They are really missing the boat on the Rockford remake by not utilizing Today's answer to James Garner - Ben Affleck,

[grumbler]

They are really missing the boat on the Rockford remake by not utilizing Today's answer to James Garner - Ben Affleck,

[MadImmortalMan]

Mulroney really doesn't seem right for it. Can't think who I would prefer though.

[Syt]

vs.



Who thought that would be a good idea? That's like making Starbuck a woman (which, fortunately, never happened).

[BuddhaRhubarb]

They are really missing the boat on the Rockford remake by not utilizing Today's answer to James Garner - Ben Affleck,

sort of a Rockford in his Matlock years? That could work.

[Jaron]

They could have Rockford's Angels and have Jim Garner in a Charlie like role.

[MadImmortalMan]

He looks too...cheerful.

Rockford is supposed to have a beaten-down and broken kind of look. And a attitude more prone to resignation, irony and sarcasm. Kinda like Vince Vaughn but not so assertive. Maybe Ron Livingston.

[grumbler]

Nothing amuses me more about the Xer constant moaning about Baby Boomers than seeing them demonstrate so conclusively that their idea of "culture" is to badly remake Boomer culture. 

FFS, dudes, create something.  The Rockford Files will always be a Boomer thing, as will Matlock and Ocean's Eleven.  And the Adams Family, etc.

The most Xer thing I can think of in terms of culture is (maybe) the Simpsons, and Groening isn't really an Xer.

[Jaron]

I didnt know you were a boomer. I thought you were part of the Greatest Generation........