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An episode of Eyewitness.
In addition to the positive characteristics you mentioned, Paladin was a very well educated man. A West Point graduate, he would quote from the Classics on a regular basis. Most Western heroes did not quote Homer or Cicero...A second-season episode of Trackdown from 1958, with Robert Culp. Good stuff, with a former Texas Ranger -- now invalided out of the service with an amputated arm given him in his last showdown with an outlaw -- called to identify the body of said outlaw. But the corpse is not that of the outlaw . . . who is still out there, somewhere, and nearby. . . .
Also, yesterday, a later episode of Have Gun -- Will Travel, with Richard Boone as troubleshooter-for-hire Paladin. Nicely done, with a script by Archie Tegland (who later wrote for U.N.C.L.E.), it chronicles a rivalry between a land-owning patriarch (Kent Smith) and his two grown sons. What strikes me as truly unusual about Paladin, in an era of stoic, tight-lipped TV cowboys and lawmen, is that he is remarkably human. He laughs, often hugely; he enjoys his comfortable life between jobs at the luxury hotel in San Francisco and the company of beautiful women; he displays little patience for fools and knaves, and is not above raising his voice to a roar when necessary. Boone's characterization, no doubt, was part of why the show was such an enormous hit in its day.
In games of this magnitude where I have a favored team, I love the blowout; I do not want the stress.
Yep. I will flip channels, turn the game off and the follow online, take a walk outside, but I almost always return to the game. I tend to watch alone as I do not want the distractions of others to bother me. I definitely am right there with you.Funny, as a life long Mets fan (saw em in the Polo Grounds with my father), I spent the last game of the '86 Series pacing back and forth in my bedroom while friends watched the game on my T.V. in the living room. I couldn't take it. Thought I was gonna wind up in the Cardiac Ward. Still can't take stressful games. My son watched the Cubbies win downstairs while I diddled in the computer room upstairs. When the Cubs blew the lead in the late innings that was ALL I could take.
Worf