Word: jedi
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...says. During the past half-century or so, he has played dozens of memorable roles: a Prime Minister (Disraeli), a Pope (Innocent III), a King (Charles I), a prince (Arabia's Faisal), a fanatical colonel (Nicholson, in The Bridge on the River Kwai), a mad dictator (Hitler), a Jedi knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) and a spymaster (George Smiley in TV adaptations of John le Carre's espionage sagas). Now, at 71, he has added another role to that impressive list: author of one of the best show-business memoirs of recent years, a witty, wise and consistently entertaining account...
...jungle and forced to guerrilla-fight his way out. In its first 23 days of release, Rambo, which cost $27 million to produce, has grossed a phenomenal $75.8 million at the box office. Only two films in history, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi, have had more successful launches...
...implausibly shoots his way through the Vietnamese countryside, Rambo: First Blood Part II has exploded through U.S. movie theaters to become a hit of totally unexpected proportions, earning a whopping $57 million during its first two weeks. (Only Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi started better.) With a muzzle velocity like that, the picture is a shot in the arm to almost everyone in it, certainly including Julia Nickson, 26, the Vietnamese agent who falls in love with Sylvester Stallone. She was a $50-an-hour model in Hawaii when Stallone cast her. Born...
...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...
Part of the reason the new movie did so well was the number of screens on which it opened. Indiana Jones played in 1,685 theaters, compared with Jedi's initial 1,002. Although it is off to a roaring start, Indiana Jones will need plenty of endurance to earn more than the most successful film of all time, Spielberg's E. T., which has made an extraordinary $621 million...