Although Steve McQueen achieved icon status with his role as “The Cooler King” in “The Great Escape”, my favorite character in that film was James Garner as Hendley, “The Scrounger” .
Hendley could get you anything you wanted. Didn’t matter that he was just another lowly dogface in a heavily guarded Nazi POW camp, you wanted something, he found it for you.
State of the art forgery tools, cameras and dark room chemicals, classified documents. Didn’t matter. You wanted it, Hendley made sure you got it.
There’s something irresistible about somebody who can deliver whatever you want whenever you want it. It’s like having your own private Las Vegas.
We apparently have a lot of people like Hendley in Canada these days. All of them either work in broadcasting or at regulating it....
No comments:
Post a Comment