{"id":3222,"date":"2004-08-30T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2004-08-30T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:10:28","slug":"tom_selleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/tom_selleck\/","title":{"rendered":"tom selleck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI had no idea until I read Tom Selleck’s IMDB bio<\/a> this afternoon that he was George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s first choice to play Indiana Jones, only he’d just been signed to Magnum PI and the series producers wouldn’t let him do it and so it went to Harrison Ford instead. Crazy!
\nAnyway, as we all know, Magnum PI took off in a very big way and soon enough Warner Bros took notice and gave Selleck the lead in an Indy-style movie, High Road to China<\/a>. TheRaider.net seems to think pretty highly of it, but alas, it’s out of print and barely available on VHS.
\nTom Selleck’s a member of and did an ad for the National Rifle Association. Rosie O’Donnell had him on her show to debate gun laws and it didn’t go very well<\/a>. Cigar Afficionado had him on their cover and did a great interview with him<\/a> about cigars, his libertarianism, and the strangeness of his career. He did a Celebrity Secrets<\/a> skit for Late Night With Conan O’Brien a while back, it was okay but not half as funny as, um, Harrison Ford’s<\/a>, Patrick Stewart’s<\/a> or George Takei’s<\/a>.
\nAlso, those of you who are my age or older probably remember the Magnum PI theme as being totally kick ass. I couldn’t find an mp3 of it, alas but this midi version<\/a> still rocks pretty hard. The Magnum PI theme, like many of the best TV theme songs ever written, was the work of composer Mike Post. Some of my favorites of his are the themes to Law & Order (my current ringtone; but who knows if he was responsible for the Chung! Chung!<\/a>?), CHiPs, The A Team, LA Law, Doogie Howser, MD, NYPD Blue and the most recent incarnation of Dragnet. Post played guitar on Sonny & Cher’s I Got You, Babe, has five Grammys, and his song for Greatest American Hero is one of only a handful of TV themes to ever hit the top of the pop charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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