JESSE STONE aka TOM SELLECK

One of my favorite actors is Tom Selleck. I used to watch him religiously on MAGNUM, P I where he played a private detective in Hawaii. Somehow he was able to cram his large frame into a 308GT Ferrari. He has been in several movies where I thought he was great and so did the Hollywood press and the people who bestow awards on actors such as The Golden Globes. Most recently I have watched him in 2 hour made for TV Movies including the Jesse Stone series. Last night was the 7th one. During his hiatus from filming the weekly cop-drama "Blue Bloods" which will be back next year, he is filming the 8th installment of his 2 hour TV movie series about a police chief in a small Massachusetts oceanside town.

Part of his popularity, with me at least, is that his characters all are very proficient at what they do, despite huge personal weaknesses, or as in the case of "Quigley Down Under", his ethics get in the way of his doing what he was hired to do and he becomes the enemy of some powerful criminal boss. Clearly a character flaw and something that would get in his way Big Time if he were to run for political office.

On top of all that, he is politically a libertarian and has held onto his strong opinions going against the mostly liberal tide in Hollywood. For example, he is a spokesman for the National Rifle Association. In Hollywood, where even actors who have made fortunes playing cowboys with six-shooters and cops and robbers with Glocks, are fiercely and hypocritically "Anti-Gun" he is unyielding in his stance for individual liberty over the power of the state.