Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels good to be back--it feels like home," said Pattison Esmiol '54. "We welcome the chance to see everyone again...
Even as arrests were being made about a half-mile inside the fence, another wave of demonstrators scaled the fence using home-made ladders...
...makings to break all records," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, a media-research firm. "We're seeing sequels to some of the most successful movies ever. And since no two of the big ones are being released head to head, each of them could hit a home run." Notes producer Laurence Mark: "Sequels aren't necessarily about a failure of the Hollywood imagination. They're about lowering risks." So why, in a business full of expensive risks, shouldn't Hollywood be allowed just one near-sure thing...
Since he eighty-sixed 007 almost two decades ago (with one aimless visit home in 1983 for Never Say Never Again), Connery has mothballed his toupee and gained a twilight twinkle. He is the movies' sexiest, most majestic older star. And yet at 58 Connery was thought too young to play Indy's father, who was originally conceived as a crotchety gent like On Golden Pond's Henry Fonda. It was Spielberg's idea to cast Connery, a decision that illuminated the film and its filming. "When Sean and Harrison arrived on the set," Spielberg recalls, "everyone got quiet...
...house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow. I remember there was this big pile of coal, and then he did his job, and then there was no coal. I liked the rhythm of his work. It was a job you could see getting done. My dad would come home from his job and talk about how unhappy everyone was there. And compared to that, I'd rather have shoveled coal. I was four or five...