I started watching ‘NCIS? soon after it started airing in 2003. What drew me to the program was the name of the leading man, Mark Harmon.
He was born in 1951 to Tom Harmon and actress Elsie Knox. I first started reading about Tom Harmon when he was an All-American football player for University of Michigan and was also the Heisman Trophy winner.
In 1941 Tom Harmon enlisted in the Army and in 1943 parachuted into South Africa and survived a plane crash.
They were from Burbank, California which may be why Mark Harmon stayed there, attended UCLA and played quarterback for the Bruins in 1972.
He got his bachelor’s degree from UCLA in communications. He had parts in movies since the mid- 1970s, then in 2003 started starring in ‘NCIS, Naval Criminal Investigation Service,? as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, on CBS.
Except for the overly egotistical character played by Michael Weatherby, I like the show. But, like many successful shows with long runtimes, it started ‘reaching? for new scripts.
A recent show had someone finding a sack of months-old bones in the Mediterranean and the search for the killers. Who cares?
One thing I like about the show is the work of the medical examiner, ‘Ducky? David McCallum. I remember him from the show ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.,? which also starred Robert Vaughn. I don’t know what happened to him.
Ducky is short in stature, not unlike Alan Ladd who played the leading man role in early movies and tv. Remember how surprised we were when we learned these he-men were cast with smaller people to make them look big and strong?
Ducky doesn’t have to look big and strong for the medical examiner job. He just has to be able to pronounce every bone and tissue in a body.
Anyway, I’m glad I missed early episodes of NCIS so the reruns are new to me. That’s the way it is for me and ‘Seinfeld?, too. I never saw his early shows.
My current tv attraction is ‘The Mentalist.?
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Two years ago some missled economist made me believe leasing a car was better than buying one.
I also made the mistake of having the credit company take the payments out of my bank account. Of course, I never remembered it, so when my bank statement arrived it never agreed with my figures.
Last month the lease was up. Having promised myself to never lease again, I set about wondering what options I should have on my new car.
The leased car had so many options I never did figure out how to change the rear view mirror, why anyone needs Sirius radio or why, sometimes my driver’s seat was warmer than other times.
That latter one I figured out after I saw m’dog Shayna touch a dashboard button with her paw.
That eliminated that choice in my options. Do I need the technology that tells me how close something is behind me? I don’t recall that being a major problem in the past.
I could also have an e-mail option, hard drive stereo, OnStar guidance, a sunroof and alert to the nearest rest stop.
Our daughter and her husband have a Corvette and a 1931 Model A Ford convertible. There’s no question which car our daughter prefers driving and the whole darn top is a moon roof.
So, after way too much thought, I decided to keep the 2-year-old car, and keep it until I figure out what the lock-out-or-in button is for.