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Tv shadow of doubt12/23/2023 The Jesse Stone movies will not be for everyone's tastes. The dialog in the Stone movies is unusual, like the repartee one might overhear, by accident, between aged, battle-scarred warriors, or experienced EMT workers, in private, or out of ear shot, making ironic comments about life and love, death and destruction treating very serious subjects in a manner that sounds like light banter. The actor who lost the Indiana Jones franchise to Harrison Ford, is selecting his vehicles carefully, systematically. Thirty years ago, after "Magnum P.I.," Selleck is still refining and perfecting his acting skills. Now, I have the distinct feeling that Selleck has assembled his favorite fellow actors to join in producing art and serious fun. From 2005 through 2012, I watched, with increasing curiosity, involvement, and enthusiasm, as Tom Selleck and his cast maneuvered through five movies about Jesse Stone. The ghosts that terrified him back in Los Angeles where he took to binge drinking and lost a high profile law enforcement job, are within his soul still, permanently goading and guiding him. Divorce, alcoholism, murder, loyalty and betrayal, stupidity, false trust and false pride, dist integrating integrity, Stone has deposited lessons in some bank inside himself and in these made-for-television modern morality plays, ironically, he is the right man in just the right place to help both himself and the small town. Police Chief Jesse Stone, portrayed by Tom Selleck, in the small Massachusetts town of Paradise, seizes such an opportunity. Imagine that you and I could live our lives over again - or even a portion of them - and use the life lessons we have garnered, the hard way, to help ourselves and others.
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