Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his first movie, 1966's Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Harrison Ford was called in by a Columbia executive. "Sit down, kid, I want to tell you a story," the executive said to Ford, who had played a bit part as a bellboy. "The first time Tony Curtis was in a movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star. But you ain't got it, kid, you ain't got it. I want you to go back to class and study." At which point Ford...
That was the beginning of the end of Ford's career at Columbia, but the beginning of the beginning of his life as an actor. Though the Columbia executive did not recognize it, Ford was demonstrating a talent that was later to become his trademark: the ability to deliver a fast, funny and sometimes devastating comeback. It took eleven years more--and Star Wars--before movie audiences were allowed to hear and see what Ford could do, but since then, he has shown over and over again that he has not only got it, but got it big enough...
...office bucks, there are no real competitors; Ford has starred in five of the ten highest grossers of all time: Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Now, returning from the outer space of the Star Wars sagas and the exotic locales frequented by that adventurous archaeologist, Indiana Jones, he is starring in Peter Weir's Witness, a contemporary thriller that promises to be the first hit of 1985. Put into wide release on Feb. 8, the film made...
Shortly after the picture begins, it depicts a brutal murder in the Philadelphia train station. The crime is witnessed by an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who is traveling with his newly widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy's help, that the murder was committed by high members of his own department who have become involved in the drug trade. The hunter becomes the hunted, and Book, wounded, is forced to seek refuge with the boy and his mother among the Amish, the Pennsylvania Dutch folk who live...
...stock has little moral value to and of itself because as Americans we will never successfully cleanse ourselves of the corporations which do business in South Africa. Of the top 50 companies in the United States, more than half do some business in South Africa. Companies like CM, Ford, IBM, ITT and Exxon, so intricately connected to our daily lives, have operations in that nation. We would need to boycott everything from automobiles to telephones to maintain that we are morally free of apartheid. Of course, this would be a ridiculous undertaking, but without this isolationism, advocates of divestiture could...