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Nov 1, 2011 · “The Garner Files” tells the story of Garner’s career with many entertaining backstage stories and Garner’s opinion of his luminous costars, but the kid who survived his own childhood is ...
- mary.mcnamara@latimes.com
- Culture Columnist And Critic
Jan 16, 2015 · As Garner reaches the other side, he shouts, “Okay, go ahead!” and dives behind a woodpile as the shooting resumes. Humor seems to have played a large part of Garner’s career as an actor. With Jon Winokur, James Garner wrote a wonderful memoir called The Garner Files .
Nov 17, 2011 · In his memoir, James Garner recalls breaking Doris Day’s ribs, having a “heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball” with Steve McQueen, being “a card-carrying liberal --- and proud of it,” and much more.
Dec 14, 2011 · Smooth-talking and amiable as they come, you’d think James Garner pretty much made his living playing himself on the big and small screen. But one of the revelations of The Garner Files, the new autobiography written by the actor with Jon Winokur, is that Garner is not who he appears to be.
Written with Jon Winokur, The Garner Files is a wry, engaging self-portrait chronicling the vagaries of a screen career along with the cast of personal and professional characters that helped shape a great American life.
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- October 23, 2012
Feb 22, 2012 · Co-written with veteran editor Jon Winokur (appropriately enough, author of several “Portable Curmudgeon” collections), Garner's frank recollections offer up a warts-and-all portrait of a man who achieved remarkable success in film and TV even as he scorned movie moguls, scoffed at high-flown acting techniques and waged court battles with ...
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Nov 1, 2011 · With Winokur (The Big Book of Irony, 2007, etc.) Garner tells his life story with the same wry, self-effacing charm that characterized his classic TV characters: the laidback cowboy Bret Maverick and the down-on-his-heels gumshoe Jim Rockford.
