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...actions too simple or the language too mundane. Critics who decry the implausibility of actions or claim the acting is horrific are missing the point. Return of the Jedi is light and exciting, the only recent movie to fill the entertainment bill set by Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's too bad, though, that the progression is still in this direction. By the time we are 22, there will be little to look forward to in the way of mental escape...
Christina Marion Rieger North Little Rock, Ark...
Trim and suntanned, Walton is a 1940 graduate of the University of Missouri and worked for J.C. Penney briefly before World War II military service. He and his brother Bud, now a senior vice president, opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Ark...
Ford, 40, is the only one to break out of his Star Wars mold, and that is only because he won the role of Indiana Jones in another Lucas-inspired film, Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Star Wars gave him visibility, but Raiders made him a box-office draw. "People want fairy tales in their lives, and I'm lucky enough to provide them," Ford says with a touch of cynicism. "There is no difference between doing this kind of film and playing King Lear. The actor's job is exactly the same: dress up and pretend." Nonetheless...
...shares with his friend Steven Spielberg (E.T.) the title "Mr. Blockbuster." Besides Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which rank No. 2 and No. 3 in receipts, he drew up the plot of and produced No. 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition, an earlier film, American Graffiti (1973), loosely modeled on his own adolescence in Modesto, Calif., ranks as one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. It cost Universal Pictures only $780,000 to produce, but it has already returned $145 million worldwide...