I just got done watching Selleck's A&E feature, Ike: Countdown to D-Day. A couple of impressions: "This film brought to you by Lucky Strikes!" Ike smoked...a lot...a lotlot. Times have sure changed. Second, I'd make a horrible critic, since I have trouble criticizing people I like, and I like Tom Selleck, especially after reading this National Review interview, but...Tom Selleck is not one of our nation's great actors. He looked good, much better than I though he would when I first heard he was in the role, but his line delivery just didn't do it for me. Another instance of experiencing a strong desire to grab the script and deliver the lines myself...ah well, I'll have to keep blogging until I'm discovered. Selleck's performance stood out, or stood under as it were, all the more due to some good performances (and casting) by the people surrounding him. As to the specifics of history as shown in the film I couldn't say, although it was enjoyable to watch. In spite of having read any number of WW2 and D-Day histories (most recently, Stephen Ambrose's D-Day), I don't have a photographic enough memory to recall the kind of detail necessary to critique the film on substance. It struck me as good, though. At least nothing stood out too badly. Patton was portrayed as something of a weirdo.