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...roguish stars, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, shine as the Jones boys in the latest of George Lucas' crusading adventures, kicking off this summer of sequels...
...Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens on 2,327 movie screens in the U.S. and Canada. The star is Harrison Ford -- three times Indy Jones, three times Star Wars' Han Solo and the unchallenged hero of a derring-do, me-too movie decade...
...their newest, most invigorating collaboration, these three godfathers of the '80s action epic have adopted a father of their own. Sean Connery, who as James Bond helped sire the thrill-machine genre, brings his masterly charm to the role of Indiana's estranged dad Henry Jones. Lucas and Spielberg, Ford and Connery prove that a sequel can be as fresh as the face of a teenage Indy confronting his first hairbreadth challenge. Indy 3 is the same, different and better. It infuses vitality into the action-adventure, a movie staple whose ravenous popularity and endless, predictable permutations have nearly exhausted...
...Ford, 46, who is married to E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison, is one of the world's richest actors. But he could have told Connery he's no stranger to hard work: he supported himself in lean times as a carpenter to the stars. He's had lean dreams too. "George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow...
...Ford is a man who holds few illusions about star quality. Movie magic may be an aging prostitute under a harsh streetlight for a kid whose grandfather played vaudeville in blackface and whose father produced innovative TV commercials in Chicago. "One day I met the actor who played Sky King, the aerial ace," recalls the actor. "He turned out to be short, heavyset and unconventional looking. It intrigued me, how different show business was from what people thought. And maybe that disposition gave me a reality register that has been a fixture in my life...