James Garner died this week at the age of 86. He was one of the great stars of my adolescence. He starred as Bret Maverick on Maverick. That was a weekly television show, but he was not in it each week. When he was, the ratings went up. What we tend to forget is this: his salary for that show was $500 a week. Even with the purchasing power of the dollar in 1958, that was not a lot of money. He tried to get more, and he did so by refusing to work. The studio sued him. He sued the … Continue reading What I Learned From James Garner