Word: bret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maverick (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The summer reruns are finally over. In celebration. Maverick brings on Pappy, sire of the two most amiable scamps on the air. In this one, Jim Garner is still Bret, but he is also his own pappy, Beauregard. To compound the confusion, he also plays Bret impersonating Beauregard...
...there is one kind of hombre that clogs up Dooley's craw so tight he can hardly spit: the professional gambler. When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is. "He's wearing a clean white shirt and a black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately...
...years) as John Phillips Marquand. Meanwhile, the 65-year-old Maynard has found another love: Nevada. It "is the last frontier of the fiction writer. This is the place for a young writer to come. What this place needs is a mute and glorious Milton. If Mark Twain and Bret Harte were alive today, they could do it all over again. If I were 30 years younger...
...Warner Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret Maverick* as "an antihero, a disorganization man, a kind of bum. He doesn't like to be employed. He's a drifter...
...wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. The Atlantic, long famed for its fiction, has "enjoyed a perpetual state of literary grace," as Professor Frank Luther Mott once noted. When Boston started fading as literary hub of the U.S., the magazine introduced its readers to such diverse talents as Bret Harte and Kipling, Mark Twain and Henry James...