Denton County Living Well Magazine July/August 2020 | Page 11

The luckiest thing
that happened
was that I didn’t
get a real job
until I was 35.
get a military haircut, and no one was
wearing their hair that way. You looked
a little geeky for most parts,” he recalled.
Yet, parts he earned, in soaps, forgettable
movies, and pilots that didn’t sell.
At 35, he found himself in Hawaii to
take on yet another TV pilot, but this
show was different. The day after
Magnum, P.I. premiered, Selleck was
a star. The private-eye series depicted
Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a Vietnam
vet working as a private investigator
in Honolulu, who operated out of the
sprawling estate of a famous author who
was never home. Viewers couldn’t get
enough of Selleck, the hot cars, stunning
women, and luxe Hawaiian setting.
“The key to Magnum was that he
woke up one day at 33 and realized
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