Tom Selleck is 65 people. Yes, I said 65. Does he have a painting up in his attic because the man looks sinfully good for his age. If I were ever to write a romance or women's fiction where the hero was considerably older than the heroine (like Suzanne Brockmann's THE ADMIRAL'S BRIDE), he would totally be the hero. He wouldn't be a Regency Rake but perhaps an older farmer like the hero of Lavryle Spencer's classic novel YEARS or perhaps an older politician in Washington DC or a tycoon during the Gilded Age, who has made his money in railroads or silver and come to New York to launch his daughter in society and falls in love with the social secretary he hires who has been widowed and has to take a job. She can be guiding her daughter and his daughter and they fall in love. That would be a different historical romance novel. Or perhaps a rancher who orders a mail order bride, and ends up with a female doctor.
Even though he's a Republican, I love me some Tom Selleck. I thought Monica was crazy to turn down Richard for Chandler on FRIENDS. And I adored him in THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY as well as the reporter in IN/OUT with Kevin Kline. He's equally at home in comedy or in drama. He's so solidly masculine yet he has that voice that doesn't quite go with the body. I also adore that he's been married to the same woman for like 25 years.
I will be seeing Mr. Selleck in the flesh tonight because I'm seeing a preview of BLUE BLOODS at the Paley Center in Midtown. I'll be posting a review of the show tomorrow.
3 comments:
Tom or Sam Elliot. Choose!
Would be a most difficult decision to make....
I'd choose Tom. I like him in the Jesse Stone roll he has on made for TV movies. That movie where he has this really good rifle and goes to the Outback and rescues the fallen woman is great. I can't remember the name of it!
Ooh, I love Sam Elliott as well. He was awesome in Tombstone. The movie Tom Selleck did in Australia was I think called Quigley Down Under or something like that.
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