ewp@ihuxn.UUCP (Ed Pawlak) (10/11/83)
"... I think my wife wants to leave me for the Tom Selleck clone." Tom Berenger is not a "Tom Selleck clone". He was starring in movies when Tom Selleck was still scowling at the camera for the latest Sears Roebuck catalog. He may not be as well known as Selleck, and the TV character that Berenger's character in the movie played may have been similar but, he is *not* just some clone they dug up for the part.
davies@uiuccsb.UUCP (10/15/83)
#R:ihuxn:-37500:uiuccsb:10000017:000:328 uiuccsb!davies Oct 14 10:36:00 1983 A friend of mine says that Tom Selleck played a character named J.T. Lancer in "The Rockford Files" on TV a few years ago. (This is the name of the character played by the TS clone in "The Big Chill"). I personally had thought the name was a take-off on T.J. Hooker. Anybody know anything more about this? Jim Davies
rrg@hcr.UUCP (Ron Gomes) (10/17/83)
The character Tom Selleck paid on "The Rockford Files" was named Lance White (not J.T. Lancer) and was a smooth, well-dressed, fast-talking private detective who epitomized all the private eye cliches and persisted in doing flamboyant things that should have gotten him killed or worse, but naturally he got all the clients and all the women and all the respect, which of course annoyed Jim Rockford to distraction. The character appeared in two episodes in the next-to-last and the last seasons; I don't recall the episode titles offhand (but I have them at home somewhere). Ron Gomes decvax!hcr!rrg